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Jul 27, 2015

TRUCKS HIJACKEDS and DESTROYED * Europe: By French farmers

* France - Highland trucks hijacked and destroyed by farmers in
-- A mob of 200 angry French farmers hijacked a convoy of seven lorries carrying fish from the Highlands to the continent... Drivers were threatened, their trucks smashed open and cargoes worth £200,000 were destroyed in the terrifying incident... Their three-hour ordeal started when they were herded into a roadblock trap in Brittany in the north-west of France... Farm vehicles, bales of hay and tyres had been to create a makeshift barrier on the main route used by Lochinver-based Hunter Transport to ferry fish from Sutherland to Lorient... 
(Photo: Cargoes worth £200,000 were destroyed)  --  Lorient, France - The Press and Journal by Iain Ramage - 24 July 2015 


 * France - Farmers attack trucks, IRU calls for action

-- Truck drivers have for the last two days been subjected to intimidation and seen their cargos destroyed during yet another strike in France, this time by farmers. The protests have also resulted in driving bans and significant delays. Yet again French police officers are standing by while these unacceptable attacks take place. France must act to guarantee freedom of movement in its territory. Its police must uphold the law... Marc Billiet, head of Goods Transport for the EU said, “It is absolutely unacceptable that the haulage industry is on the receiving end of total French incompetence or unwillingness to uphold the rule of law, again. We cannot have drivers being threatened, tyres being slashed and loads being destroyed” ... 
 Brussels, Belgium - IRU - July 23, 2015

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Jan 22, 2008

Toll hike protesters * USA - Feel New Jersey’s jackboot

Various media sources quoted him as saying it reminded him of movies he’d seen about Russia and Germany

Middle Township,NJ,USA -Land Line Magazine (Grain Valley,MO), by Reed Black -January 21, 2008: -- Apparently, no one told the police in Middle Township, NJ, that freedom of speech is a constitutional right... On Saturday, Jan. 19, police arrested two men who had leaflets and signs protesting Gov. Jon Corzine’s plan to drastically increase tolls. The setting was the town’s high school where Corzine was scheduled to appear at a town meeting to make his case for raising tolls...Before the governor arrived, some 10 toll increase opponents began distributing flyers and displaying signs that read “No toll hikes”... Among those were former Bogota, NJ, Mayor Steven Lonegan and Seth Grossman, an attorney... Lonegan and Grossman told that when they got to the sidewalk near the school, they were confronted by a dozen or more police officers... “I was surrounded by seven officers,” said Lonegan. “They told me the governor did not want me to hand out flyers”... “They cuffed me and put me in the patrol car,” he said... A retired superior court judge who witnessed the arrests said it was “very scary”...

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Sep 2, 2007

PROTEST * USA - Teamster against Cummins at Dallas Trucking Show

Scores of Teamsters swept through the event hall at the Great American Trucking Show in Dallas on Saturday

Dallas,TX,USA -ByM Products & Industry News -30 August 2007: -- ... To protest continuing labor abuses at diesel engine manufacturer Cummins, Inc.... Wearing bright red T-shirts and holding a banner reading "Cummins: Stop Every Abuse," workers passed out thousands of fliers decrying Cummins' sustained anti-worker operational strategy over the past 15 years and the trail of broken lives, uncertainty and worsening health care coverage that it leaves behind... Cummins' sustained union-busting campaign has involved 21 union decertification attempts and led to multiple strikes. Between 2006 and 2007 alone, breakdowns in labor relations at Cummins resulted in strikes in Portland, Oregon; Seattle; Spokane, Washington; South Charleston, South Carolina; and Louisville, Kentucky... The emotional and economic pressure of these strikes has created severe hardships for workers and their families. In one case, a Cummins worker in Portland, Oregon, who committed suicide, cited despair over the long strike in his last will and testament...

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Jul 9, 2007

* Canada - Truckers’ protest signals trouble for B.C. ports

Drivers demand end to wage undercutting

Edmonton,BC,Canada -The Edmonton Journal -9 July 2007: -- A 500-truck convoy stalled traffic from Surrey to Vancouver on Saturday as drivers demanded a stop to wage undercutting at the ports... With less than a month remaining in an agreement that ended a lengthy strike in the summer of 2005, port truckers want to see it extended and better enforced for another year, while a moratorium on new owner-operator drivers is extended to include company drivers... (Picture: Truckers stage a protest by driving a 500-truck convoy through Vancouver yesterday, stalling traffic on area roads)

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May 14, 2007

Internet Fuels Protest * USA - Against rising gas costs

Some of the nation's drivers are trying to fight fast-rising gasoline prices by staging an Internet-driven "gas out" on May 15

Marion,OH,USA -The Marion Star (Marion,OH)/The Detroit Free Press, by ALEJANDRO BODIPO-MEMBA -14 May 2007: -- The average price of gasoline nationwide topped $3 per gallon on Friday; the nation's refineries have been experiencing production problems in recent weeks... An Internet chain letter dated April 30 has been circulating around e-mail systems across the country urging drivers to avoid pumping gas on Tuesday. The unsigned letter suggests that a one-day "gas out" could result in siphoning off nearly $3 billion from oil company profits... A New Bloomington, Ohio, woman, Diana Gibson, said the boycott is an opportunity for individuals to be heard by oil companies, rather than only to complain about gas prices to each other...

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Mar 24, 2007

Teamsters Protest * USA - Against Cummins, Inc. at Mid-America Trucking Show

Workers Call on Cummins to Act Socially Responsible
Washington,DC,USA -PRNewswire-USNewswire -23 Mar 2007: -- Yesterday dozens of Teamsters swept through the event hall at the Mid-America Trucking Show, one of the world's largest heavy-duty trucking events, to protest diesel engine manufacturer Cummins, Inc.... Wearing t-shirts reading, "What's Wrong with Cummins?" workers decried Cummins' recent attempts to slash health care for employees at its South Charleston, West Virginia plant. The protesters also cited Cummins' repeated labor law violations and history of restructuring moves that deprive workers of union representation...

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