Union threat to strike over Panama Canal expansion gives Suez a boost

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The union representing construction workers building the Panama Canal acted with exquisite timing at the weekend, delivering a strike notice to project contractor Grupo Unidos por el Canal (GUPC).

As the first ships began steaming along the Suez Canal’s newly opened second channel, which poses the greatest competitive threat to Panama’s future, a letter from the organisers of the Single Union of Construction Workers and Similar (SUNTRACS) warned that workers are likely to walk off the job tomorrow (12 August) in ...