Nation-wide Truckersâ Strike Evokes Mixed Response
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New Delhi, August 21 (NNN): An indefinite nationwide strike of truckers protesting against the imposition of service tax on Saturday evoked mixed response with a section of transporters in Karnataka and Tamilnadu staying away from the protest.
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It might be hard for some drivers to believe, but average commuting times are getting shorter for U.S. workers.
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NEW DELHi, AUGUST 21: Truckers went on a nation-wide strike from Saturday to protest against the imposition of the 10 per cent service tax in the Budget.
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Demanding full labor rights, unionized public workers went on a general strike for the first time in the nationâs history on Monday.
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Truck drivers &#151; the people who deliver our food, cars and clothing &#151; have one of the most dangerous jobs in America &#151; accounting for nearly 15 percent of U.S. work-related deaths. And that's only counting the accidents.
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DETROIT - The 1970 United Auto Workers' strike against General Motors Corp. went on for 69 days and helped push the nation into a recession. This time, industry watchers predict the current strike will be a short one.
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Commentators in the Nigerian press largely back the four-day general strike against the government&#39;s decision to increase petrol prices.
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Dozens of truckers rallied at Mexican border crossings in California and Texas Thursday to protest a pilot program to allow up to 100 Mexican trucking companies to haul their cargo anywhere in the United States.
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NEW DELHI: An Indian transport union spearheading a truckers&#39; strike yesterday welcomed a government decision to include six of its members on a panel to study a controversial tax which triggered the dispute, officials said.
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Prices of vegetables, fruits and other perishable commodities shot up on Sunday though movement of essential goods across the country by and large remained unaffected as the truckers&#39; strike to protest imposition of service tax entered the second day.
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Toll collectors and other Pennsylvania Turnpike workers went on strike Wednesday, union officials said. The strike began in the pre-dawn hours of the day before Thanksgiving, one of the busiest travel days of the year.
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A strike by thousands of Indian truckers protesting a proposed new tax entered its third day, with officials reporting a sharp increase in prices of essential goods in major centres.
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NEW DELHI: The truckers strike was called off early on Saturday following a settlement reached with the government. The settlement was arrived at after a marathon meeting lasting over nine hours, where the
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By James Mayse, Messenger-Inquirer, Owensboro, Ky.  Sep. 16--When Bill Froehlich worked for the state Transportation Cabinet, his boss often called out work crews to clean up trash he'd spotted along the highways.
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National strike will hit public transport across nation.
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In a Sept. 9 story about Mexican trucks entering the United States under a NAFTA-mandated pilot program, The Associated Press, relying on a statement from Mexican Transportation Secretary Luis Tellez at a news conference Sunday, erroneously reported that two Mexican tractor-trailers delivered cargo to New York and South Carolina. Instead, it was one truck which unloaded steel in North Carolina on Monday.