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Friday, February 20, 2009

News on Trucker’s Strikes Around the World February 2009

Thousands of Greek drivers block border crossing with Bulgaria
www.worldbulletin.net - Istanbul,Istanbul,Turkey
"The ministry doesn't understand the reasons truck drivers decided to go on strike and block international commercial transport, a blockade that forces our ...

Transportation Ministry reacts to TIR drivers' strike
ANA - Athens,Greece
The protesting truckers blocked access to other vehicles transporting goods allowing, however, passage to private cars and tourist coaches. ...

 

Traffic troubles are likely due to termless strike of Greek truck ...
Focus News - Sofia,Bulgaria
Greek Embassy warns Bulgarian automobile carriers for possible traffic impediments due to termless strike of Greek TIR truck drivers. ...

A Teamster in the making: Frank’s ‘Wake-up Call’
Wakefield Observer - Beverly,MA,USA
Due to deregulation of the trucking industry, a lot of companies were later filing for bankruptcy protection. Both situations resulted in layoffs and the ...

Vandals strike historic Wyo mine
Casper Star-Tribune Online - Casper,WY,USA
The vandals apparently rammed their truck through the security gates at the mine and accessed several buildings, including the mine's old mill house that ...

 

Leader of truck-jumping thieves nabbed
Philippine Star - Manila,Philippines
... complaints from truckers and traders passing the Delpan area who lost precious cargo due to the cunning ability of the gang members to strike quickly,” ...

Egyptian pharmacists and truck drivers end strikes
Monsters and Critics.com - USA
Separately, trailer-truck drivers halted their four-day-long strike Wednesday after a compromise was reached on Tuesday between trailer drivers and Hamdi ...

EC woman may not survive pickup truck strike last week
El Campo Leader News - El Campo,TX,USA
By SHANNON CRABTREE scrabtree@leader-news.com An El Campo woman struck by a pickup last Wednesday may not recover from her injuries. ...

Gaza, Palestine: Israeli troops shoot Palestinian farmer
The Muslim News - UK
Currently 3 Palestinian farmer and 5 international Human Rights Activists are attempting to return to retrieve the farmer’s broken truck. ...

Egyptian Industries Paralyzed by Strikes
The Media Line - New York,NY,USA
The pharmacists’ strike enters its third day on Wednesday and is affecting millions of Egyptians who do not have access to drugs they need and could not ...

GM Seeks Another $16.6 Billion In US Government Aid; Job Cut Plan
CNNMoney.com - USA
GM, however, said it failed to strike critical deals with the United Auto Workers union and bondholders to reduce labor costs and shrink its $47 billion ...

An attempt to find peace in the Middle East
Long Beach City College Viking - Long Beach,CA,USA
The UN recently halted shipments of aid to civilians in Gaza strip after a UN truck driver was shot and killed on the Israeli border while transporting a ...

 

Transport drivers in Mexico threaten strike over fuel prices
CNN - USA
MEXICO CITY, Mexico (CNN) -- Hundreds of thousands of bus and truck drivers are threatening to go on a prolonged strike if the federal government does not ...

Egypt truckers strike enters fourth day
afrol News - Oslo,Lesotho
afrol News, 17 February - Egyptian truckers have entered the fourth day on strike in protest against the law that would ban the vehicles by 2011, ...

Truckersstrike hits Egypt
Gulf Times - Doha,Qatar
Violence escalated in al-Gharbiya governorate as the strike continued. Angry drivers threw heavy rocks at trailer drivers who refused to strike. ...

AFP

Mexican truck drivers strike for cheaper diesel
AFP
MEXICO CITY (AFP) — More than 500000 truck and bus drivers across Mexico went on a one-day strike to press for lower diesel fuel prices, threatening more ...

 

Mexico: Bus, Truck Drivers Strike Over Diesel Prices
Stratfor - USA
About 500000 truck and bus drivers in Mexico staged a 24-hour strike on Feb. 16 to demand a government freeze on diesel prices, Deutsche Presse-Agentur ...

Ukraine truckers to go on strike in Kyiv Feb. 18
ZIK - Lviv,Ukraine
Lviv truckers will leave for Kyiv Feb. 17 to join their buddies from other cities in a national strike due Feb. 18. In all, 1000 trucks will converge on the ...

Mexican Truckers on Work Stoppage
Prensa Latina - Havana,Cuba
The national strike was called by the Autonomous Truckers Alliance from the Mexican Republic that the National Truckers Confederation of the Mexican ...

Egyptian pharmacists strike against tax law
International Herald Tribune - France
Hundreds of Egyptian trailer truck drivers have been on strike since Saturday, to protest a new law that would ban the heavy vehicles by 2011, ...

Examiner.com

2009 Nationwide Series gets off to a start with the Camping World ...
Examiner.com - USA
Sure Wallace may have cut Leffler off, but that hit was not a retaliatory strike, all through the 2009 speed weeks we have seen cars bouncing all over this ...

The truth about Hamas
Ynetnews - Israel
In May 2008, a Palestinian bomber from Gaza blew up an explosive-laden truck on the Palestinian side of the Erez crossing, causing an estimated $3.5 million ...

Truckers strike back, torch Meghalaya bus
Calcutta Telegraph - Calcutta,India
15: Truckers and their supporters set ablaze a Meghalaya Transport Corporation bus this morning at Shallang’s coal belt area in West Khasi Hills district, ...

Egypt police arrest 25 striking truckers
Africasia - London,UK
Egyptian police arrested 25 truckers on Sunday as a strike by truck owners entered its third day, a police official said. The truck owners had clashed with ...

Egyptian Truckers Strike Continues, Pushes Up Prices
EasyBourse.com - Paris,France
CAIRO (AFP)--A strike by thousands of Egyptian truck drivers entered its third day Sunday, pushing the price of cement and cooking gas up, businessmen said. ...

Egyptian truckers' strike brings violence, delays
Reuters Namibia - Namibia
CAIRO (Reuters) - A strike by Egyptian truck owners has turned violent and is causing long delays on roads in parts of the country, police sources and ...

Israel, Hamas reject UN ceasefire deal
Canada.com - Don Mills,Ontario,Canada
Humanitarian aid deliveries had been suspended on Thursday after one truck driver was killed and another injured by what the UN said was an Israeli tank ...

Fires strike business, block
Winnipeg Free Press - Winnipeg,Manitoba,Canada
JOE BRYKSA / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS The sun pokes through thick smoke as firefighters on a ladder truck pour water on a fire at a business on Dufferin Avenue ...

Op-Ed Contributor The Coming Swarm
New York Times - United States
The Indian security forces, many of which had to be flown in from New Delhi, simply had little ability to strike back at more than one site at a time. ...

Spain's new jobless crowd into the soup kitchens
guardian.co.uk - UK
Strike! Strike!", they chanted at a recent rally. With Spain's property developers queuing up to file for bankruptcy and employees at a local General Motors ...

 

Afghanistan poses problem for Obama
Anchorage Daily News - Anchorage,AK,USA
... major Khyber Pass bridge, blown up by the Taliban or Al-Qaeda or whoever, with a huge supply truck sprawled on its side in the process of being looted. ...

500000 Mexico Bus and Truck Operators Go On Strike
Latin American Herald Tribune - Caracas,Venezuela
MEXICO CITY -- Representatives of at least 500000 bus and truck operators in Mexico from some 50 associations announced Friday a 24-hour strike on Monday to ...

Tampabay.com

Insurgency takes heavy toll on Pakistani police
Tampabay.com - St. Petersburg,FL,USA
... Khan's Frontier Police, including troop carriers, motorcycles, ballistic helmets and bulletproof vests; an ambulance and a tow truck are promised soon. ...
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The Associated Press

Noise, fuel-dumping cause anger at US Kyrgyz base
The Associated Press
One of the most contentious issues surrounding the base is the fatal shooting of truck driver Alexander Ivanov in late 2006 as a routine security check was ...

MLive.com

General Motors issues Flint Truck Assembly Plant ultimatum
MLive.com - MI,USA
The union and the company have been at odds over the local contract since at least early last year, when the UAW warned GM that workers could strike if a ...

Cops cleared in Puebloan's death following truck chase
Pueblo Chieftain - Pueblo,CO,USA
The officer used a physical strike against Munoz's head to stop him from obtaining access to the weapon. At least one other officer also used physical ...

Striking union offers to return to Oak Harbor Freight
Seattle Post Intelligencer - USA
He said troubles at the family-owned trucking business, which serves the five westernmost states, began Sept. 22, when 40 percent of the employees -- 578 ...

Marines get first shot at new fighter jet
Stars and Stripes - Washington,DC,USA
The military’s next stealth fighter jet, the versatile F-35 or Joint Strike Fighter, is slated to roar into action in 2012 when it enters service with the ...

Air Force confirms Joint Strike Fighter assignment to Eglin
Navarre Press - Navarre,FL,USA
Air Force officials have decided to bed down 59 F-35 Joint Strike Fighter aircraft and to allow associated construction at Eglin Air Force Base to begin. ...

The ‘Doberman Effect’
The Jewish Week - NY, USA
As he drove a pickup truck with red flags just a few blocks away, Communist Party activist Agarbiya was confident that the Lieberman phenomenon would shock ...

Egyptian security forces detain 30 truck drivers on road to Gaza
Monsters and Critics.com - USA
Cairo - Egyptian security forces have detained 30 Egyptian truck drivers delivering supplies to the Gaza Strip, a source in the interior ministry told ...

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