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World Wide Trucker's Strike Updates - Argentina Blocking Soy Oil
In Argentina this week truckers on strike for better pay and conditions used about 200 trucks to block a soy oil producing facility from shipping its products. This is a growing example of how the actual trucks themselves can be used to gridlock production, shipping and logistics in various areas around the world.
The truckers are not so much protesting oil prices directly but they are protesting for better compensation and benefits (health care, job security and term life insurance are all common demands), which all too often is linked to oil and fuel prices. It is somewhat ironic that they are blocking soy oil, which can be used as an alternative fuel source.
Grains and vegetable oil exporters have condemned the protest, which is preventing soybeans from being delivered at the plant and could cause delays in the loading of ships in the river port of San Lorenzo.
Argentina is the world's top supplier of soyoil and soymeal and Bunge is among the country's biggest exporters.
Pablo Moyano, secretary of the Truck Drivers' Union, said about 2,000 truckers were blocking the Bunge plant to press their demands for better pay and conditions.
"In the coming days, we'll start adding Cargill, Molinos Rio de la Plata, Nidera, Louis Dreyfus," he told Reuters, referring to other leading exporters with operations in the ports in and around the Parana River city of Rosario.
Free Gas Giveaway
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Teamster's Striking and Picketing Ford Plant in Louisville
Teamster's are striking a Louisville Kentucky Ford plant after negotiations broke down between the Teamster's and a new Ford contractor, Auto Port.
Disputes over the railcar-loading work began soon after Ford announced the switch from contractor RCS Transportation of Shelbyville to Auto Port, a subsidiary of Toronto-based CN International.
Auto Port, which had won a three-year contract for the work, notified Teamster employees that they would be out of a job June 1, but invited them to interview for their old jobs at less than half their former hourly pay of $20 to $22. - source
A temporary resolution had been reached, enabling the teamster's to work for less pay, but keep health benefits and job security, but it would appear that Auto Port and the Teamster's fell apart on their compromise with no hints of a new reconciliation.
For Teamster's their compromise, may have ultimately allowed them to give up the high ground in their battle to secure employees some jobs, and ultimately may push them completely out of work all together before all is said and done.
It is said, that anytime you can't walk away from a deal, you are bound to receive the bad end of it. It would appear that the Teamster's were unwilling to walk away from a bad deal, and have subsequently been dealt table scraps until even those were with held. They would have almost been better off taking a Las Vegas travel trip and investing in slot machines rather than give in inch by inch until there was nothing left to give.
Over the years and decades, unions have all rapidly lost their direction and way. Membership has declined rapidly as unions fail to protect new members and from a corporate perspective gouge the bottom line for older workers. The things that made unions strong have almost completely evaporated with time and bad practice and this particular failure is just another example of the manifestation of this problem.
Trucking Sector Picking Up
Attorneys focused on Illinois Nursing Home Neglect
Pilgrim's Pride Cut-Backs
Precast Concrete Building The Future
Bridge Issues in U.S. Threatens Drivers Wallets
World Wide Trucker's Strike - Columbian Coffee Trade Under Severe Pressure
Columbia is facing a very serious situation as goods are stuck in warehouses, trucking is slowing to a stand still and the open market is seizing the opportunity to best the Columbian's in coffee bean sales.
A seven day truck drivers’ strike, projected to last into next week is threatening coffee reserves in Buenaventura on the Pacific Coast and Cartagena on the Caribbean.
Truckers' demands for more money to offset increased fuel costs and highway tolls forced talks into deadlock, while “no negotiation talks are scheduled,” according to Nemesio Castillo, president of the Colombian Truck Drivers Association .
A deal reached some weeks ago with Colombia’s President Alvaro Uribe intended to improve freight payments and workers conditions have not been implemented.
Another consequence of the strike is that imported goods are also being tied up in warehouses in Colombia’s ports. A spokeswoman for the Buenaventura Port Authority said it only has capacity for two more weeks.
It is expected that Colombia will export between 750,000 and 800,000 sacks of coffee this month compared to 977, 000 for the same month last year.
Columbia's politicians have definitely not helped this situation and their largest legitimate industry is suffering do to their lack of action reminiscent of an obsessive compulsive trying weight loss products left and right while sitting on a couch watching TV and eating donuts.
China Experiences Terrorist Attack by Truck
On August 5th, before the attack on an American couple in Beijing, a man used a truck for a terrorist attack on police officers in Western China.
KASHGAR, China — Authorities said they were treating a brazen attack that left 16 police officers dead and 16 others injured Monday as a terrorist strike, China's state-run media reported. The two men arrested after the attack were members of the ethnic Uighur minority, which has long chafed under Beijing's control of northwestern China.
The incident followed the release of a video last month in which a group calling itself the Turkestan Islamic Party threatened attacks during the Olympic Games, which will open in Beijing on Friday.
The group has said it wants to draw attention to its demands to establish an independent state and end Chinese repression of Uighurs, Muslims who speak a Turkic language and have made this area 2,000 miles west of Beijing their home for centuries.
In Beijing, an Olympic spokesman said Monday that the Chinese government has taken every precaution to prevent an attack at the Games. Details of Monday's attack remained unclear Tuesday.
That same group is now blamed for the attack of a man wielding a knife against a couple. The father-in-law of the indoor volley ball coach of the US Olympic team died as a result of the attack and his wife's status was serious.
While the rest of the world is protesting higher gas prices with trucker's strikes, the Chinese are working to quell possible terrorist attacks. Due to restrictions on speech and reporting from the areas in question however, it is extremely difficult to trust this account let alone the cause associated with the attack on Americans in Beijing, which happened to be the same excuse.
The Chinese government works with a paradox whereby they want the rest of the world to turn a blind eye on their problems, yet they simultaneously want a Lasik like focus on their advancements. What they fail to realize is that the contrast between the two areas is what defines them.
World Wide Trucker's Strike - South Africans take to the Street
The strike against oil and fuel prices continues to spread with most recent outbreaks of strike impacting South Africa.
A crowd of almost 10 000 people gathered in Keizersgracht this morning for a march on Parliament to protest against rising electricity, fuel and food prices.
Cosatu's provincial general secretary Tony Ehrenreich had predicted yesterday that 30 000 protesters would bring the city to a grinding halt today.
The march was the focal point of the day-long national strike called by the federation to highlight the issue of rising living costs.
Thousands more people across the country answered the call, affecting key industries including the gold mines and motor industries
In the city, police were deployed to monitor the march, with officers in vans, cars and Inyalas lining the route and a police helicopter circled the area.
This particular strike included truckers, and many more everyday citizens. The strike shut down shops and key industries, with protesters calling on many more industries from electronics shop owners selling MP3 players to gold mining to produce, to shut down as well in protest of higher prices.
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