Cruz Colorado, vice president of the 70,000-strong National Agriculture Transport Workers Union
Adolfo Lopez Mateos National Transport Workers Confederation president Edmundo Delgato
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On Strike. Mexico,Truck driver, lorry drivers, transporters all on strike.
Transport sector employees approximately three million workers.
April. 09 Mexico imposed a tariffs on a wide range of American products in March.Tariffs of 10% to 45% on affected goods ranging from onions,shaving cream, fruit juice, Christmas trees and red wine. Last year Mexico imported $151 billion worth of goods. Mexican peso has lost about 40% of its value against the dollar in the past four months. American consumers are tightening their belts, which has resulted in many companies such as Sony and RCA on the border laying off workers by the thousands. Mexican truckers are still periodically blocking roads and seizing toll booths in protest over diesel prices.
25 February, 2009 Trucker unrest still in Mexico. 700 Truck (goverment say's 187) drivers circled the Mexican presidents office honking horns and demanding lower diesel prices. Truck traffic down 40 percent. Union leaders state governent has done nothing.
16 February, 2009 Truck drivers some 500,000 in Mexico had a one day national strike today over diesel prices. Mexican bus drivers also joined in the strike private and public companies. Regions kept on a skeleton crews and private buses operated as public transport vehicles.
Strikers want the price of diesel to drop by 24 percent, from 7.63 pesos (about U.S. 54 cents) per liter to 5.96 pesos (about 41 cents). Milk producers upset as the price of dried milk coming in from the US is driving the price of milk way down. Veracruz,
sugar cane trucks lay idle. Aguascalientes, 70,000 commuters affected.
Mexico City bus and truck traffic was not effected.
Expect indefinite strike and a massive
demonstration in Mexico City unless government officials meet with them before Wednesday.
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