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STRIKES * Canada - Auto workers will strike if needed

* Ontario - Negotiations that it hasn’t had since at least 2006

--- The fate of the Canadian auto industry and its tens of thousands of jobs is at stake this summer as Unifor enters contract negotiations with the Detroit automakers, according to union leader Jerry Dias... Unlike its United Auto Workers counterpart in the United States, Unifor’s main issue during the negotiations won’t be increasing wages, it will be keeping plants open. Still, Dias said, the union will strike, if necessary... “The reality is if we don’t solidify the footprint, there’s going to be strikes in Canada,” Dias told The Detroit News during a recent phone interview. “There’s no way around it. I don’t have any choice. The way we look at it, we have nothing to lose.”.. An ally Unifor believes it has in this round of negotiations that it hasn’t had since at least 2006 is the Canadian government...
(Photo from Wikipedia: A Western Star 4700SB) -- Toronto, ONT, CAN - The Detroit News, by Michael Wayland - June 9, 2016

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STRIKE AVOIDED * USA: At Ford's plant -- ** STRIKE Could occur al Fiat Chrysler

* Michigan - UAW avoid strike at Ford's Kansas City plant

-- Ford Motor Co. and the United Auto Workers avoided a strike at the automaker’s Kansas City Assembly Plant after coming to a tentative agreement on a local labor contract at 11:08 p.m. Friday, according to UAW-Ford Department Vice President Jimmy Settles... The plant produces Ford’s profitable F-150 pickup, as well as the Transit van...
(Photo by Sam VarnHagen - Ford Motor Company team member, Ronald Wolfskill inspects the all-new Ford F-150 at Ford's Kansas City Assembly Plant) -- Dearborn, MICH, USA

** Michigan - Memo: UAW plans to meet with Fiat Chrysler

-- The United Auto Workers plans to meet with Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV to discuss why 65 percent of members rejected the first tentative labor contract reached last month, according to a union memo that reiterates what President Dennis Williams said Thursday... But industry insiders expect the two sides to return to the bargaining table to try to hammer out a new agreement that members will ratify. Labor experts say it remains a possibility that a strike at Fiat Chrysler could occur, or that the union could shift its focus to Ford Motor Co. or General Motors Co...
(Photo by Steve Perez / Detroit News - Members of United Auto Workers Local 12 at Fiat Chrysler Automobiles walk into the at SeaGate Convention Centre for an information meeting on the terms of the tentative labor agreement between the company and the union) -- Detroit, MICH, USA - The Detroit News, by Michael Martinez, Melissa Burden and Michael Wayland - October 3, 2015

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UAW STRIKE * USA: Againsts Ford, unless new local deal can be reached

* Michigan - UAW gets ready to strike Ford’s Truck Plant in Kansas City

-- Strike will happen in five days unless new local deal can be reached, union says... The United Auto Workers union is getting ready to strike Ford Motor Co.’s truck plant in Kansas City, Mo., putting one of the company’s most important factories at risk for a work stoppage... The dispute hinges on issues specific to the local contract, such as manpower provisions and scheduling for skilled trade workers... A strike would be crippling for Ford, which builds its highly-profitable F-150 truck at the 7,500-worker plant. The no. 2 U.S. auto maker has already lost production of its top-selling truck this year due to a lengthy factory changeover to prepare for the pickup’s new aluminum body... The UAW is also in the midst of negotiating a new national agreement with Ford for the company’s nearly 53,000 U.S. factory workers...
(Photo by Charlie Riedel/AP - A worker inspects an Ford F-150 truck at the company's Kansas City assembly Plant. The United Auto Workers union is getting ready to strike at the plant after talks broke down over a new local agreement) -- Detroit, MICH, USA - The WSJ, by CHRISTINA ROGERS - Sept. 29, 2015

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STRIKE * USA: Port workers in Oakland

* California - Unrest persists at Oakland Port

-- The Pacific Maritime Association is claiming that workers at the Port of Oakland in California are continuing to disrupt operations nearly two weeks after the ratification of a five-year labor contract... According to the association, the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) Local 34, has intentionally interfered with productive operations at the port three times since May 22, 2015, when the two sides formally agreed to the contract. The most recent disruption, says the PMA, came May 31, 2015, when Local 34 refused to dispatch workers for a shift... The ILWU has not commented on the situation but has referred requests to Local 34...
(Photo: Port of Oakland) -- Oakland, CAL, USA - Go By Truck News - June 3, 2015

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STRIKE * Brazil: Truck strike diminishes

* Paranagua: Soy stocks running low

-- Some truck drivers in Brazil continued blocking roads on Tuesday, slowing grains deliveries to southern ports, even as adherence to the strike diminished and a key highway in top soy state Mato Grosso opened... Nationwide, there were 18 roadblocks over rising freight costs by the end of the day on Monday, well below peaks of more than 100 a week ago, federal highway police said... With the two-week-old protests concentrated in the south, however, the situation at No. 2 soy exporting port Paranagua remained critical, a spokesman said... On Monday just over 700 trucks arrived at the port, less than half the normal amount for this time of the year. With stocks running out, the port can only guarantee exports of soybeans and soymeal through Wednesday, the spokesman said... Brazilian President, Dilma Rousseff, on Monday signed into law a new truckers' bill to lower toll costs, waive fines for overweight trucks charged in the past two years and build more rest stops on federal highways... Some drivers said the bill did not address their main demands to lower diesel fuel prices and raise their payments to cover costs... (Photo: The industrial action has slowed down exports of soy beans in the midst of harvest: 600 trucks instead of the usual 3.000 are reaching Paranagua) - Sao Paulo, SP, USA -Reuters, by Caroline Stauffer / Gustavo Bonato & Marcelo Teixeira / Jeffrey Benkoe - Mar 3, 2015

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PORT STRIKES * USA: West Coast's ones

* California - Ports reach labor agreement, cargo backlog will take trucks months to clear

-- West Coast port employers and labor have finally reached a tentative agreement, and port truckers serving the 29 Pacific ports are asking terminal operators waive or reduce backlog related fees... The Pacific Maritime Association and the International Longshore and Warehouse Union announced a proposed agreement on a five-year contract, but provided no details. “Our ports now can resume full operation,” the PMA and ILWU announced Feb. 20... The organization representing port employers and the dockworkers must ratify the proposal, but it is uncertain when a vote will occur... Los Angeles,CAL,USA -Overdrive, by Jill Dunn -February 21, 2015

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PORTS' STRIKE * USA & Canada: West Coast Ports ones

* California / USA - 2014 congestion cost US West Coast ports up to 150,000 TEUs

(Photo: The U.S. Airforwarders Association supplied this photo showing cargo ships anchored off LA-Long Beach on Saturday, Feb. 14)
-- Port congestion on the U.S. West Coast is estimated to have caused the diversion of as much as 150,000 TEUs to East Coast ports during 2014, according to Drewry's Container Insight Weekly... Concerns have been expressed about the long-term damage to West Coast ports caused by the congestion, but Drewry said the current high eastbound spot rates to the East Coast would probably legislate against any permanent mass defection of cargo when normal operations returns to those Pacific terminals... According to the Shanghai Containerised Freight Index, the spot rate for 40-foot containers to the U.S. East Coast broke through the $5,000 barrier last week, more than double the rate to the West Coast... Hong Kong,China -JOC, by Greg Knowler -Feb 16, 2015

* DC / USA - ILWU, PMA talks resume with labor secretary

-- U.S. Labor Secretary Thomas E. Perez is scheduled to meet Tuesday with West Coast longshore union and management negotiators in an effort to end a bargaining standoff that’s causing increasing pain across supply chains... President Obama was sending Perez to join the nine-month-old negotiations between the International Longshore and Warehouse Union and the Pacific Maritime Association. Neutral mediators from the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, an independent agency, have been involved since early January, when the ILWU and PMA invited them into into the talks... Perez has no power to impose a settlement, but industry officials hope his involvement will encourage a settlement that eases West Coast port delays that have reached crisis levels and threatened to produce a management lockout of dockworkers... Delays at West Coast ports, which handle more than 40 percent of U.S. containerized imports, are causing increased disruptions to company supply chains in retail, manufacturing and wholesaling industries, as well as to agricultural exporters...

* BC / Canada - Truckers take Port Metro Vancouver licence battle to court

-- Trucking companies that have found themselves frozen out of Port Metro Vancouver are hoping for judicial intervention... Twenty-three of 25 companies that have lost their port licence this month, have launched a federal lawsuit against Port Metro Vancouver and will have their case heard on Tuesday in Vancouver... Effective Feb. 1, 68 companies representing 1,450 truck tags were granted new licences... For those left out, the port acknowledged the change would difficult and offered a “generous transition program to eligible operators”... The program, according to the port, included some funding and administrative assistance with scrapping and auctioning trucks for drivers no longer able to work... (Photo Metro File/by Emily Jackson - Port Metro Vancouver as seen from Gastown) - Vancouver,BC,Canada -Metro, by Matt Kieltyka -February 16, 2015

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STRIKE * Canada: Paccar's

* Quebec - 800 Paccar workers locked out of plant again

(Photo: Paccar's Vocational Kenworth and Peterbilt trucks)
Ste. Therese,QBC,CAN -Today's Trucking -1 Dec 2014: -- Some 800 workers at Paccar’s medium-duty truck plant in Ste-Thérèse, Quebec, have stopped building trucks... Paccar warned employees on Saturday afternoon that unless they approved the final collective agreement, they would be locked out of the truck assembly plant, citing a “no contract, no work” policy. The workers’ contract ended at midnight on Saturday... Despite the warning, this past weekend, 76 percent of employees rejected the company’s final contract offer... Paccar and the Local 728 of the union Unifor have been in negotiations to renew the collective agreement for the past two months...

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TRUCKERS END STRIKE * USA: Los Angeles & Long Beach Ports

* California - Drivers end strike against two trucking companies

(Photo by John Schreiber)
Los Angeles,CAL,USA -My News LA, by John Schreiber -Nov 21, 2014: -- Port drivers ended their picketing Friday against a pair of trucking companies serving Los Angeles and Long Beach ports and rail yards, after the two firms agreed to engage in dialogue with the drivers to resolve ongoing labor disagreements... The picket lines were dispersed and drivers returned to work this morning after Pacer Cartage and Harbor Rail Transport officials promised to “continue discussions to resolve outstanding issues between them” ... Port driver Fidel Gonzalez, who works for Harbor Rail Transport, celebrated the agreement to begin talks, and said: “We are asserting our rights as employees and we won’t stop until we get them" ... Humberto Canales, a driver for Pacer Cartage, said the “days of driver misclassification are numbered” thanks to recent court rulings that sided with the drivers... Port drivers in recent days and weeks also ended strikes against six other trucking companies serving the Los Angeles and Long Beach ports, after the promise of similar talks were made. These previous detentes were brokered by Mayor Eric Garcetti...

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TRUCKERS' STRIKE * USA: Ports of Los Angeles, Long Beach

* California - Truckers resume pickets targeting three more trucking firms

(Photo credit: L. Williams, Teamsters - Picket line at the ITS Terminal. Nov. 7, 2014)
Long Beach,CAL,USA -The Long Beach Press Telegram, by Karen Robes Meeks -17 Nov 14: -- The Los Angeles and Long Beach port truck drivers’ fight over fair wages and better working conditions has expanded to five more trucking firms, officials said Monday... Drivers and their supporters, who began their fourth day of strikes at port terminals Monday, said they began striking trucks that belong from QTS Inc., LACA Express and WinWin Logistics Inc. They also plan to strike trucks that belong to Pacer and Harbor Rail Transport today... Meanwhile, truckers and their supporters were stationed at LBCT, ITS and TTI terminals at the Port of Long Beach and Maesk, Evergreen and APL terminals and the ICTF transfer facility at the Port of Los Angeles. Officials from both ports reported minimal disruption... At some terminals, trucks from the companies being picketed were reportedly turned away... Strikes will continue today with five new trucking companies: QTS Inc., LACA Express, WinWin Logistics Inc., Pacer and Harbor Rail Transport, union officials said...

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CARMAKERS NEWS * South Africa: Strikes

* South Africa - Strike brings car-maker assembly lines to standstill

Johannesburg,SA -Reuters/Business Day Live, by Karl Gernetzky -19 August 2013: -- Workers in the automotive manufacturing sector downed tools at factories across the country on Monday, the first day of a nationwide strike... The strike, which could involve 31,000 assembly line workers, was called last week by the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) after wage negotiations deadlocked in July... Automobile Manufacturers Employers Organisation chief negotiator Thapelo Molapo, said on Sunday employers would again meet Numsa on Monday to seek a halt to strike action that will affect BMW, Toyota, Nissan, Ford, General Motors (GM), Volkswagen, Mercedes-Benz and some truck manufacturers...

* South Africa - ‘Will pay heavy price’ for automotive sector strike

Johannesburg,SA -Business Day Live, by Mark Allix and Karl Gernetzky -August 20, 2013: -- Labour experts warned on Monday that lost production and revenue estimated at R700m a day in the automotive sector would outstrip any material gains of striking workers as up to 30,000 of them downed tools across South Africa. In addition, the country would suffer debilitating reputational damage as much of the vehicle production was for export to overseas markets, in line with the government’s industrial focus. The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) said the strike was in "full swing" and production had halted at all of the seven major motor manufacturers represented in the country... This meant that vehicle output of about 3,000 units a day in South Africa had been affected. Numsa said one of the truck manufacturers, MAN Truck and Bus SA, had tried to break the strike through the use of "scab labour" and the police, but its spokesman said workers had walked off production lines and operations had halted. The National Association of Automobile Manufacturers of South Africa had estimated losses to be about R600m a day, which included the negative effect on downstream manufacturing, including automotive components...

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STRIKES * Canada

* Canada - CP Says it Will Cut 3,400 Workers if Strike Continues

(Photo by Andy Clarke/Reuters)
Coquitlam,BC,CAN -The Journal of Commerce Online, by Mark Szakonyi -May 25, 2012: -- Railroad increases pressure on union to cave to pension cuts... Canadian Pacific Railway said it will have to lay off up 3,400 workers if the union doesn’t end a strike that has crippled the railroad’s Canadian freight network since Wednesday... The threat to lay off unionized employees not affiliated with the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference steps up pressure on the 4,800 striking members to accept a contract reducing pension plans. The average annual CP pension for TCR employees is $73,000, according to The Globe and Mail... The strike has delayed the shipment of tens of thousands of carloads of products ranging from grain to automobiles, and ports, including Port Metro Vancouver, are concerned there will be terminal delays if the strike continues... The Canadian government plans to legislate an end to the strike if it’s not settled by Monday...

* Canadian Pacific Resumes Operations as Strike Ends

Coquitlam,BC,CAN -Transport Topics (USA) -1 June 2012: -- Canadian Pacific Railway resumed operations Friday morning after a week-long strike, Reuters reported... Lawmakers concerned about the impact on economy pushed through back-to-work legislation late Thursday to end the strike... About 4,800 CP engineers, conductors and traffic controllers walked off the job May 23 after talks stalled on company efforts to cut pension payments... Canadian Pacific is Canada’s second-largest freight railroad, behind Canadian National...

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STRIKES * Australia - Trucking feels the pain from Patrick strike

Patrick Queensland,Australia -The Queensland Business Review, by Brad Gardner -May 25, 2011: -- The trucking industry is bracing for a financially painful fallout from the Maritime Union Australia’s (MUA) decision bring stevedore Patrick to a halt... Ignoring a last-minute plea from Patrick, the MUA has forged ahead with industrial action in a bid to secure better pay and conditions under a new enterprise bargaining agreement... Strikes will run for six days in Brisbane and for seven days in Sydney and Fremantle, which Patrick estimates will directly affect 27,950 containers. Action at the Port of Melbourne was called off... Johnston’s Transport General Manager, Mike Moylan, says transport operators will incur substantial costs due to a lack of work... Operators will also face scheduling headaches and higher wage bills, with Moylan saying drivers will need to work overtime and on weekends to clear a backlog of tasks once industrial action ends... (Photo from lloydslistdcn.com.au: Patrick and MUA to resume talks)

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STRIKES * UK - Fuel distributors agree to meet with Unite to avoid strikes

London,EN,UK -Road Transport, by Joanna Bourke -6 March 2011: -- A number of fuel distributors have accepted Unite's invite to discuss tanker driver terms and conditions (T&Cs) to avoid industrial action. But some believe certain discussions are best left between employers and employees... BP, Hoyer, Suckling Transport, Turners (Soham) and Wincanton have confirmed to MT they have accepted Unite general secretary Len McCluskey's invite to talks on 10 March at the union's London headquarters... McCluskey says he wants a "no strings summit" to examine how operations can be improved in what he describes as "the increasingly volatile but essential national industry". Discussion topics include wages, pensions and safety conditions...

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STRIKES * Canada - Cascade Carriers O/Os vote to strike

Sherwook Park,ALB,CAN -Truck News -18 Feb 2011: -- Drivers for Cascade Carriers are poised to go on strike, after 92% of CAW Local 4050 members voted in favour of strike action, if necessary... The union says Feb. 25 is the most likely date for its 56 owner/operators to walk off the job. The affected owner/operators deliver throughout Alberta, B.C. and Saskatchewan, delivering powered concrete, flyash, sand and other materials to customers in the cement and oilfield industries... Cascade's largest customers include: Lafarge, Rolling Mix, Inland Cement, BJ Services, Schlumberger, Trican, Sil Industrial, Trans Alta (Sundance), Badger Sand, Sand Source and indirectly, Syncrude... "These owner/operators are seeking a fair first collective agreement that provides for income stability, indemnification from rising fuel costs, recognition of their business costs, as well as fair and equitable treatment," said CAW national tepresentative Todd Romanow... (Photo from cascadecarriers)

* Colombia - Riot Police Face Striking Truckers in

Bogotá,Colombia -The Wall Street Journal, by DAN MOLINSKI -February 16, 2011: -- Antiriot police began assembling Wednesday in front of striking Colombian truckers, who for three days have been causing major traffic jams by setting up roadblocks on this capital city's main arteries... The truckers' strike, which began nearly two weeks ago over deregulation of the industry, involves the majority of some 200,000 Colombian truckers and is proving to be the toughest confrontational challenge yet for the six-month-old administration of President Juan Manuel Santos... The strike is having a growing adverse impact on coffee and other export sectors that rely on the trucking industry to deliver product to shipping ports...

* Australia - TNT strike escalates into violence

Sydney,NSW,Australia -Transport & Logistics News -16 Feb 2011: -- Police were called in following a confrontation between striking workers and contractors at Wednesday's TWU straike at TNT... TWU national secretary Tony Sheldon claims “[Wednesday] morning TNT contacting companies were told to run their trucks through protesters at a peaceful community protest... TNT has issued a press release denying involvement in violence. The press release says: "TNT Express remains focussed on its customers today as it attempts to minimise disruption and maintain service levels throughout its network..."

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STRIKE * USA - LA-LB Port Talks Deteriorate

Union reported standing firm on job assignments as sides prepare for arbitrator hearing

Los Angeles,CAL,USA -The Journal of Commerce Online, by Bill Mongelluzzo -Jul 8, 2010: -- Negotiations between striking office workers and terminal operators at the Los Angeles-Long Beach ports deteriorated at the end of the first week of the walkout, with the union refusing to budge on its demand that it control the daily assigning of labor... The Office Clerical Unit of International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 63 and the employers’ negotiating team did not meet on Wednesday. Both parties were preparing for a formal hearing Thursday morning into last week’s ruling by an arbitrator that the OCU was not bargaining in good faith... The ILWU international union, which represents dockworkers, hopes to convince the waterfront arbitrator the OCU branch of the union is negotiating in good faith so the dockworkers can honor the OCU picket lines and refuse to handle cargo... Cargo operations at the ports have proceeded during the strike as management employees have taken over the clerical duties that go along with the dockside container handling... (Photo: Los Angeles Port)

* Striking LA-LB Port Workers Expand Pickets, Withdraw Offer. Tensions with port employers worsen as walkout enters second week

Los Angeles,CAL,USA -The Journal of Commerce Online, by Bill Mongelluzzo -Jul 9, 2010: -- Tensions increased in the strike by office clerical workers at the Los Angeles and Long Beach ports on Friday as the union picketed a third employer and withdrew its previous wage and benefits proposal... Cargo handling at the nation’s largest port complex went on unaffected, however, under a waterfront arbitrator’s order that International Longshore and Warehouse Union dockworkers should not honor the picket lines... The OCU on Thursday began picketing COSCO Agencies (Los Angeles), which performs agency work for China Ocean Shipping Co. The OCU since last week has been picketing Yusen Terminals and the Ports America facilities... Dockworkers briefly honored the picket lines, but the arbitrator, who had already ruled the OCU was not bargaining in good faith, ordered the dockworkers to return to their jobs... The average OCU wage in 2009 was $96,900 and workers receive an additional $66,000 in benefits, according to employers. Employers are offering a $1 per-hour increase and a 10 percent increase in pensions over a six-year contract...

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Garbage Haulers * USA - Approve strike authorization

Hundreds of unionized garbage haulers in King and Snohomish counties voted Sunday to give their top negotiator the authority to call a strike if a contract dispute cannot be settled later this week

Seattle,WASH,USA -The Seattle Times, by Amy Martinez -29 March 2010: ... The authorization means a strike could begin as soon as midnight Wednesday, when contracts covering garbage haulers for more than 1 million local homes and businesses expire... A strike would affect about half the homes in Seattle. Allied Waste serves about 100,000 homes and 8,000 commercial customers in King County... A federal mediator has been called in to help with the negotiations Monday through Wednesday... The Teamsters want assurances that their wages won't be cut to make up for shortages in their pension funds, Gonzales said. "I have seen language on the table from both companies we can't agree to — language that allows them to cut our wages in unlimited fashion," he said... Lang said Waste Management's proposal does not include wage cuts and is worth more than $100,000 annually in pay and benefits for the average worker. "We think the union's demand is unrealistic given the economy," she said... (Photo from msnbcmedia: Garbage hauler Frank Treto heads back to his collection truck after tagging a garbage bin that contained recyclable material in a Seattle neighborhood)

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Industrial Action * Australia - TWU in hot water over

Sydney,NSW,Australia -ATN, by Brad Gardner -January 22, 2010: -- The Transport Workers Union (TWU) will face court over claims it committed unlawful industrial action against McColl’s Transport... The Fair Work Ombudsman claims the union and its representative, Neale Harper, breached workplace laws after conducting the action in protest of the dismissal of a McColl’s employee who was also a TWU member... According to the Ombudsman, the full-day strike on February 16 at the company’s depot in western Sydney was illegal because it occurred before the expiry of an enterprise bargaining agreement for McColl’s transport employees... While the union faces a maximum fine of $33,000, Harper may also be slapped with a $6600 bill for his actions...

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STRIKE * Canada - Teamsters hands CN strike notice

Montreal,QUE,CAN -Canadian Transport & Logistics -25 Nov 2009: -- CN Rail has received a 72-hour strike notice from the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference (TCRC) of its plan to strike the company at 12:01 a.m. Nov. 28... CN said the TCRC's decision is unfortunate because a strike is in no one's interest – not the locomotive engineers, CN's other employees, its customers or the Canadian economy... CN is urging the TCRC to resume negotiations immediately to reach a settlement. If that is not possible, CN believes the union should agree to submit issues in dispute to binding arbitration before the Nov. 28 strike deadline...

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LAYOFF & STRIKES * USA -Virginia International Terminals Cuts 90 Jobs

Layoff affects 20 percent of work force, effective Aug. 3

Front Royal,VA,USA -The Journal of Commerce, by Thomas L. Gallagher -Aug 3, 2009: -- Virginia International Terminals is laying off 90 employees, or 20 percent of its work force, immediately, the operating affiliate of the Virginia Port Authority announced Aug. 3... This is the first mass layoff initiated by VIT in its 27-year history. Prior to the announcement, VIT employed 452 people at its marine cargo terminals in Norfolk, Portsmouth, Newport News and the Virginia Inland Port, an intermodal facility in Front Royal, Va.... Seniority and unique skill sets required in particular fields will determine which personnel will be laid off, VIT said... (Photo: An aerial view of Port of Virginia's Norfolk International Terminals)

* National Teamsters takes over City Hall truck drivers' union

Chicago,ILL,USA -The Chicago Tribune, by Dan Mihalopoulos -August 3, 2009: -- The local labor group that represents City Hall's truck drivers was taken over today by the Washington, D.C.-based International Brotherhood of Teamsters... "Local 726 was put into trusteeship today," IBT spokesman, Galen Munroe, said. "Beyond that, we can't comment."... Local 726 leaders did not return calls seeking comment. City sources said the local's top official, Tom Clair, resigned Friday... Last month, Clair and other local leaders rejected Mayor Richard Daley's demands for pay cuts, including unpaid furlough days and compensatory time off instead of overtime pay, which is promised under the union's contract with the Daley administration...

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STRIKES * Canada - Auto workers will strike if needed

Oct 5, 2015

STRIKE AVOIDED * USA: At Ford's plant -- ** STRIKE Could occur al Fiat Chrysler

Oct 2, 2015

UAW STRIKE * USA: Againsts Ford, unless new local deal can be reached

Jun 5, 2015

STRIKE * USA: Port workers in Oakland

Mar 3, 2015

STRIKE * Brazil: Truck strike diminishes

Feb 23, 2015

PORT STRIKES * USA: West Coast's ones

Feb 18, 2015

PORTS' STRIKE * USA & Canada: West Coast Ports ones

Dec 3, 2014

STRIKE * Canada: Paccar's

Nov 25, 2014

TRUCKERS END STRIKE * USA: Los Angeles & Long Beach Ports

Nov 19, 2014

TRUCKERS' STRIKE * USA: Ports of Los Angeles, Long Beach

Aug 22, 2013

CARMAKERS NEWS * South Africa: Strikes

Jun 1, 2012

STRIKES * Canada

May 25, 2011

STRIKES * Australia - Trucking feels the pain from Patrick strike

Mar 6, 2011

STRIKES * UK - Fuel distributors agree to meet with Unite to avoid strikes

Feb 22, 2011

STRIKES * Canada - Cascade Carriers O/Os vote to strike

Jul 10, 2010

STRIKE * USA - LA-LB Port Talks Deteriorate

Mar 30, 2010

Garbage Haulers * USA - Approve strike authorization

Jan 25, 2010

Industrial Action * Australia - TWU in hot water over

Nov 26, 2009

STRIKE * Canada - Teamsters hands CN strike notice

Aug 4, 2009

LAYOFF & STRIKES * USA -Virginia International Terminals Cuts 90 Jobs