Portuguese trucker killed as global fuel backlash escalates
Wednesday, June 11th, 2008A Portuguese truck driver was killed while manning a strikers’ road block on Tuesday as a global backlash over high fuel prices escalated on Tuesday.
Europe remained the epicenter of a movement begun by fishermen, with lorry drivers’ pickets at the Spain-France border causing massive disruption to fuel, food and even parts deliveries for industrial output.
However, the global and fluctuating pattern of workers’ action was underlined as a second day of protests by government workers in India left around 20 people injured — police again using batons and water cannon to quell popular anger, with dozens detained.
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