23 Chilean ports on strike

Recently, in Chile, in South America, about 6,500 workers affiliated with the port union (Union Portuaria) at 23 ports launched a 48-hour strike, demanding an agreement with the government to improve working conditions.

Workers protested the lack of progress in contract negotiations with the Chilean government. Among other things, they are pushing to modernize port regulations.

The ports of Antofagasta, San Antonio, Iquique and San Vicente are likely to be most affected by the shutdown, according to security firm GardaWorld.

In addition, the company believes that the ports of Arica, Coquimbo and Valparaiso are least affected.

According to foreign media reports, there have been "serious traffic disruptions" around the Port of San Antonio, after demonstrators earlier blocked Avenida Barros Luco and Calle Sanfuentes with burning debris traffic.

The government will deploy security personnel to monitor the strike and possibly disperse damaging events. Clashes are possible between protesters and police.

It is reported that during the strike, transportation, commerce and port operations across Chile will be disrupted.

Relevant practitioners put forward an early warning: In order to avoid strikes and protests, please act cautiously, check the road conditions in advance when entering and leaving the port, especially the road conditions near the port, and follow the instructions of local officials.

Widespread strikes break out in Germany

In addition to Chile, as the leader of the European economy, Germany also broke out widespread strikes.

In the middle of this month, hundreds of Germans gathered outside the Chancellor's Office in Berlin, holding signs, protesting the deteriorating living conditions and asking the government to help the poor immediately.

Some people even put up slogans "eliminating poverty", arousing the attention of the outside world. The strike followed a strike by pilots owned by the German airline Lufthansa, causing flight disruptions and chaos at the airport.

Compared with Chile, the "European engine" Germany's inflation situation is more severe, and the inflation rate reached 8.9% in August, the highest in nearly 50 years and the first time since the oil crisis in the 1970s.

Third strike at Liverpool ports

In addition, strikes at British ports in the northern hemisphere are not over yet. It is understood that Liverpool, the UK's second largest port, will hold a third general strike.

Almost 600 workers at the Port of Liverpool's container operations will go on strike for two weeks from October 24 to November 7 after wage discussions broke down after the Port of Liverpool's owner Peel Ports claimed the Unite union rejected an 11% pay offer .

The union said: "Workers have been facing a 'threat of employment' since the strike began on September 19. Inflation in the UK is currently as high as 12.3%, but the Port of Liverpool operator is only giving us an 8.2% pay rise, which means that Wages have dropped."

The union further said Peel Ports Group had agreed to an 11 per cent pay rise for its workers at its Camel Laird shipyard in Birkenhead. The unions therefore demanded that Peel Ports Group should offer similar treatment to dockworkers at the Port of Liverpool.

"Peel Ports Group is highly profitable and well positioned to pay workers a decent wage increase," the union's secretary general said.

The union said the workers at the Port of Liverpool stood firm and would give them their full support. "Peel Ports Group must come up with a wage increase that the workers can accept or the strike will continue."

It is understood that from September 19th to October 3rd, the port workers of the Port of Liverpool broke out the first time when the conditions of the United Kingdom's United Union's request for port operators to raise wages according to the current inflation rate (12.3%) were not met. round strike.

From October 11th to October 17th, also because of salary reasons, a second round of strikes broke out in the Port of Liverpool port workers.

The Port of Liverpool is an important port for importing into Europe. Such frequent strike actions will inevitably have a great impact on the loading, unloading and transshipment of containers at the port, and will bring very unstable factors to the timeliness of the British Haipai line and even the European shipping line.

In addition, the United Kingdom of the United Kingdom recently said that it does not rule out the possibility of a third round of strikes in Felixstowe Port. If labor disputes are not properly resolved, strikes will continue for some time to come, and ports in the UK and even Europe will be congested, and supply chain tensions will be further intensified.