Tag: strike

• 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.

• Thursday, December 24th 2020 - 08:30 UTC

  Two weeks of industrial action in Argentina's soy crushers and export ports

  

  Soymeal manufacturers in Argentina presented late on Tuesday a proposal aimed at ending a two-week strike by oil and port workers unions that has thrown a wrench in the flow of agricultural exports from one of the world’s main bread baskets.

• Wednesday, December 23rd 2020 - 09:40 UTC

  Weather and ports' strike in Argentina boosting soy and cereals prices

  

  United States soybeans climbed to six-year highs this week as weather and export troubles in Argentina outweighed concerns of a new coronavirus strain hitting Britain. Corn and wheat futures traded near even as soybeans supported the grains complex.

• Thursday, December 10th 2020 - 09:09 UTC

  Argentine oilseed and grains exports stalled with new wage strike

  

  Argentine grains inspectors and oilseeds workers started a new wage strike on Wednesday, organizers said in a joint statement, as stalling contract negotiations threatened to interrupt exports from one of the world's main bread baskets.

• Wednesday, December 2nd 2020 - 08:53 UTC

  Argentine agro-export industry workers on strike freezing shipments

  

  Two major unions in Argentina's agro-export industry, one of the world's top grains exporters, said that they would launch an indefinite strike starting Tuesday morning, ramping up a standoff that has been simmering for months.