Tag: Truckers strike

• Wednesday, April 17th 2019 - 09:40 UTC

  Brazil announces financial package to avoid a truckers' strike

  

  The government of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro announced on Tuesday a financial package aimed at staving off a potential truckers' strike. Chief of Staff Onyx Lorenzoni said the Brazilian Development Bank will be providing US$ 128 million in credit to truckers and that the Ministry of Infrastructure will spend US$ 514 million on improving roads.

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• Thursday, July 5th 2018 - 08:16 UTC

  Brazil industrial production plummets in May on truckers strike

  

  Industrial output in Brazil plummeted in May at the sharpest pace in a decade, highlighting the deep impact of a nationwide truckers' strike in the final weeks of that month. Production fell 10.9% from April, government statistics agency IBGE said on Wednesday, the largest decline since December 2008.

• Thursday, June 21st 2018 - 08:12 UTC

  Brazil leaves Selic benchmark rate unchanged at 6.5%; central bank assessing impact of truckers strike

  

  Brazil’s central bank kept interest rates unchanged on Wednesday, as expected, refraining from hiking even after a sharp currency slide as policymakers highlighted the unclear impact of a nationwide protest by truckers in late May.

• Wednesday, May 30th 2018 - 09:39 UTC

  Brazilian military “not worried”, with strikers; protests are protected by the Constitution

  

  Brazil's Minister of Institutional Security Sergio Etchegoyen on Tuesday rejected calls to deploy military troops to break up protracted nationwide protests against fuel price hikes. Etchegoyen, a general appointed by President Michel Temer, said such a heavy-handed response was outdated.

• Wednesday, May 30th 2018 - 08:58 UTC

  Truckers union calls an end to the crippling strike, but some still resist

  

  One of the main unions behind a crippling truckers' strike in Latin America's largest nation on Tuesday called on its members to return to work, warning that failing to do so would erode hard-won gains.

• Tuesday, May 29th 2018 - 08:48 UTC

  Brazilian cocktail: Wall Street, oil prices, truckers strike and a weak government

  

  A nationwide protest by Brazilian truckers was slow to unwind on Monday, even after the week-long demonstrations against diesel price hikes got the government to cave to their demands, causing stocks and the currency to slide.

• Saturday, May 26th 2018 - 09:00 UTC

  Truckers strike crippling Brazil, despite authorization to use military force to clear highways

  

  A truckers protest over diesel prices that has crippled key sectors of Latin America's biggest economy dragged into Friday night, putting drivers in a standoff with Brazilian President Michel Temer who authorized military force to clear highways. The protest will stretch into its sixth day on Saturday.