Spanish Breakdown / Worldwide Trucker Revolt?

international | workers issues | other press Sunday June 15, 2008 00:51 by neep

Full on trucker revolt going on in Spain is leading to mini-riots, looting, chaos. There are plenty of other revolts of a similar kind going on around the world right now and I suppose you could easily add in the Irish Fishermen. Forced cuts in Fuel use / fuel price hikes are the equivalent of steep wage cuts. But not much sympathy. PPL think. oh those nasty truckers and fishermen - they're causing global warming. Between a rock and a hard place. Anyone got on the ground reports from Spain? This stuff exaggerated?

Extract: * More than 90,000 truckers have been striking and blockading Spanish routes for some three days now - gas pumps have gone dry and grocery store shelves are empty
* On the streets of Madrid, people raided supermarkets in bouts of panic buying. Eva Villafafila, a 34-year-old workplace safety inspector, said she stocked up Monday. “There were unbelievably long lines, and the supermarket staff said that if the strike continued, they would run out of chicken and eggs right away.” SOURCE
* Riots have been erupting
* Police are suppressing riots
* People are being beaten by those police
* At least 2 protestors have died at the picket line in Spain and Portugal

http://peaknix.com/2008/06/14/spain-shock/