Tag: strike

• Friday, December 16th 2022 - 12:33 UTC

  Military will replace strikers in UK, starting with 750 ambulance drivers; daily bonus proposal for the forces

  

  A campaign has been launched for military personnel called in to cover a rash of UK strikes to get a daily bonus for their efforts. It comes after it was confirmed 750 military personnel are sent to be deployed to cover ambulance strikes as UK prepares to be hit by a wave of industrial action in the coming weeks.

• Friday, December 9th 2022 - 14:50 UTC

  LATAM domestic pilots threatening with strike beginning 31 December

  

  LATAM airlines domestic pilots are threatening with industrial action unless their pre-pandemic contract conditions are re-established. The fifty air professionals this week announced an “non-yielding” position since as happened with other Latam unions and officials, they are intent in recovering pre-pandemic benefits.

• Friday, March 18th 2022 - 20:35 UTC

  Truckers relax measures but remain on strike over fuel price in Paraguay

  

  Paraguayan lorry drivers have vowed to ease down their road-blocking measures after they were promised a reduction in the price of fuel.

• Wednesday, September 15th 2021 - 09:47 UTC

  Uruguay on 24-hour strike for lost wages and in favor of repealing Government’s Law

  

  Uruguay is going through a 24-hour strike called by the labour union Pit-Cnt to demand better wages and working conditions, to defend national development and state-run companies and, most importantly, to say “yes” to the repeal through a referendum 135 articles of the Law of Urgent Consideration (LUC).

• Saturday, August 28th 2021 - 08:59 UTC

  Argentine intercity bus drivers go on strike for the entire weekend

  

  Argentine intercity bus drivers have gone on a 72-hour nationwide strike from Friday through Monday to demand better wages and labour conditions as well as overdue salaries.

• Tuesday, August 17th 2021 - 09:21 UTC

  Paraguayan Police takes action to clear roads besieged by striking truckers

  

  Paraguay's National Police Monday took action to clear the roads which were being blocked by striking lorries in Guairá and Alto Paraná, it was reported.

• Wednesday, May 19th 2021 - 09:45 UTC

  Argentine meat processing plant closes after ban on exports: agri-food producers go on strike

  

  The Rafaela Alimentos meat processing plant in Casilda in the province of Santa Fe Tuesday closed down temporarily in response to the ban on exports decreed by the Argentine Government of President Alberto Fernández. The company employs 650 workers.

• Thursday, January 21st 2021 - 09:06 UTC

  Teamsters protesting and blocking Argentine highways threaten domestic supplies and grain exports

  

  For the fourth day running independent teamsters are blocking roads in Argentina as part of a protest over what they describe fuel prices, exorbitant taxes, and highway tolls. The lockdown threatens the export of grains and oilseeds, CIARA-CEC the industry chamber said.

• Monday, January 4th 2021 - 05:15 UTC

  Argentina's grain inspectors' union expect to reach a salary agreement this Monday

  

  Argentina's grain inspectors' union, Urgara, said on the last day of 2020 that its members will continue to strike over the weekend after failing to strike a wage deal despite two meetings with the Chamber of Private and Commercial Ports (CPPC).

• Monday, December 28th 2020 - 08:30 UTC

  Argentina's soy oil manufacturers and exporters unions' strike could end this week

  

  Argentina's influential chamber of soy oil manufacturers and exporters on Sunday improved an offer to striking workers, seeking to end a more than two-week standoff that has bogged down exports from one of the world's main breadbaskets.