Simultaneous Worker's Strike around the world
Coincidences galore.
Months ago I forecasted that worker’s strikes would become the norm (below) even I am surprised by the events of the last 10 days.
Worker strikes will become sort of a norm in certain industries, as economies face ever-growing inflation, central banks can’t control it, and see their wages going down the drain.
How the UK Rail and Tube Strikes Will Affect Services
Rail and Tube strikes are set to cripple services this week, causing travel chaos for passengers across the UK.
The one above was a few days, this is now.
Rail strikes and labor shortages are hurting UK economy
The United Kingdom has a jobs problem. There just aren't enough workers to keep its economy moving forward, and many employees are growing angry about inflation taking a large bite out of their paychecks.
The problem escalated Tuesday as thousands of rail workers went on strike over demands for better pay and working conditions — the biggest walkout on the railways in 30 years — bringing large parts of the network to a halt. More strikes are set for Thursday and Saturday.
CN Rail signal and communications workers go on strike across Canada
The company says rail operations are continuing 'safely and at normal levels'
The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW), which represents about 750 Canadian National Railway Co. employees, says signal and communication workers have walked off the job across the country.
IBEW's Steve Martin confirmed in a text that workers were legally on strike as of 11 a.m. local time on Saturday.
Strike week in Belgium: What disruptions to expect, and when
From Monday's national strike to airlines being affected by action days, here's what to expect this week. Credit: Belga
Belgium will be hit by various strikes in the next few days, from a national strike on Monday to various airlines carrying out actions later in the week. Here is a run-down on the disruptions you can expect and on what days.
SAS pilots’ strike scheduled to begin on June 29th
A strike involving around 1,000 SAS pilots is scheduled to begin on June 29th, according to a second strike notice issued by the pilots’ trade union on Wednesday.
Should it go ahead as scheduled, the strike will take effect simultaneously for pilots in Norway, Sweden and Denmark. Pilots in the three Nordic countries have separate trade unions but the planned strike action is coordinated between them.
Let us not forget the trucker’s strike in South Korea, that last 7 days, and the industry most impacted by it was the Semiconductors, and China.
Trucker strike in South Korea enters seventh day, hits POSCO, Hyundai Motor
South Korean petrochemical firms on Monday joined the automobile and steel makers in cutting operations due to mounting inventories as transport disruptions from a strike by truckers spread quickly across Asia's manufacturing powerhouse.
The industry association representing 32 petrochemical companies in South Korea said the average daily ex-factory shipments of their member companies had plunged by 90% due to the strike, now in its seventh day.
"The Cargo Truckers Solidarity union's collective action to reject transportation is spreading the damage to major petrochemical complexes in Ulsan, Yeosu and Daesan," the Korea Petrochemical Industry Association said in a statement.
The 22,000-strong union is protesting against soaring fuel prices and demanding minimum pay guarantees. Four rounds of negotiations with the government have failed to find a compromise.
EasyJet Spain cabin crew set to strike in July
Workers at five Atlantic City casinos vote overwhelmingly to strike
These are but a few, and they often have a veneer of color coordination (meaning these aren’t organic, but organized to different levels). While I forecasted such nonlinear dynamics, given the societal and economic trends and other unorthodox tools and models. Yet, I am astonished.
There are so many variables that I can account for, yet I expect these coincidences to escalate further and further. I can’t blame the people doing it, even if this is somewhat orchestrated or organized. These will obviously be used as both a political, geopolitical, and hybrid war tool for continuous disruption and making going back to a normal state harder and harder, and costly.
I don't trust these controlled unions. If they are not getting beaten up, jailed, fined and experienced other measures then they were allowed to strike. Contrast the experiences of those brave anti-lockdown and vaccine protesters.
Where were they during the lockdowns and the start of the coercive vaccination drives?!
I'd be surprised if the Mexico "colectivo" drivers don't revolt in some way or another soon. The rate, as I understand it, has been fixed at 10 pesos (50 cents US, roughly, at the 20-to-1 exchange rate that has existed for close to a decade now) for years, cannot possibly be enough to keep up with inflation, especially as prices on meat, the Mexico dietary staple, has doubled over the last 2 years. The buses aren't being maintained, and while only one has fallen apart while I was on it last year, many have failed to show on schedule.