【新唐人2011年4月22日讯】为了抗议油价上涨和各种乱收费行为，20号，上海数千名集装箱货柜车司机串连罢驶，希望当局取消燃油附加费，并要求厂家增加运费。大批防暴警察到场镇压，传闻至少造成3死7伤，数十人被拘捕。对于司机的诉求，没有官员出面协商。
上海集装箱货柜车司机罢工活动，经过镇压后虽然大部分司机散去了，但有司机说，罢驶计划将持续到周末，如问题没有解决，“五‧一”劳动节可能会再掀新一波罢工潮。据业内人士估计，有百分之六十的司机参加了20号的罢工。
面对油价、物价上涨，而运费价格多年一直维持不变，同时，公路收费以及港区多如牛毛的费用支出，司机们面临生活困难。
集卡司机赵先生：“主要是现在物价上涨，油价也上涨，各方面费用都涨的特别的高，现在干活下来还不如一个普通的、进城打工的普通工人，干了还有什么意义呢？很多人都不愿意干了嘛！”
集卡司机甲：“以前，油3块多一些，现在7块多，油就涨了4块多，运费一直没有调整呀！”
集卡司机乙：“要养家糊口，没办法，实在！现在还不知道怎么解决咧！警方出面他是维持秩序，不叫你闹事，他也解决不了这个问题啊！”
深圳社会观察研究所刘开明博士认为，司机罢工是因为没办法生存，而推高油价的原因，发改委却推给了中国的税赋。
刘开明：“油价高的原因应该是发改委订的，因为中国的油价是垄断，就是国家垄断定价，只要有事情，发改委肯定就涨价，而且根据它透露的讯息主要是税太高，油价贵是因为税太高，也就是说中国的税非常的高。”
今年中国全国人大会议期间，人大代表黄细花曾引述全国物流公司协会的数据提出，目前中国的高速公路收费高于欧洲九倍，占运输成本两成左右，加上油费以及各种乱收费，司机跑越多亏越多。
有北京媒体记者跟车采访发现，从四川成都到北京的货车，高速公路过路费就将近5000元，几乎占了成本的一半。从广州到北京的运输成本甚至高于从广州到美国。
浙江维权人士邹巍认为，中国大陆表面上是经济繁荣了，但只有少部分人能获得经济发展的好处，民众无法共享这个成果，这样的经济发展不只是畸形，也更加激化社会矛盾。
邹巍（浙江维权人士）：“就像油价上涨、物流成本上涨、原材料上涨都会引起非常大的波动。因为中共的制度，架构上他目前不属于民主政治，对事物的发展、对经济的发展，从长远来说实际上是破坏性的，并没有能带来繁荣的成果，让民众能够共享。”
香港《东方日报》报导，中国问题专家胡星斗指出，上海货柜车司机罢驶事件其实属经济矛盾，司机因不满油价高涨令收入下降而罢驶。司机罢驶其实只想宣泄怨气，虽不合法但情有可原，但当局出动警察打压才令事件火上加油。他说，当局再不解决民众经济与谋生问题，星火可以燎原。
新唐人记者张丽娜、李庭、周平采访报导。
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CHINA-20110422-Shanghai-strike
Shanghai Truck Drivers’ Strike
On April 20, to protest rising oil prices and fees,
thousands of Shanghai truck drivers went on strike
requesting the authorities to abolish fuel surcharge,
and manufacturers to pay higher shipping fees.
Yet, a large number of riot police came,
leading to 3 people dead, 7 injured, dozens arrested.
No official came to hear the drivers’ demands.
The police dispersed the majority of the drivers,
who said the strike will continue till the weekend.
If the problem is not resolved, on Labor Day May 1,
another wave of strikes might start.
According to internal estimates,
60% of the drivers have participated in the strike.
In the face of rising oil and goods prices,
yet freight rates remaining unchanged for years,
and many expenses on highway fees and port costs,
drivers can hardly make ends meet.
Truck driver Zhao: “Now all prices are going up,
oil prices also rise, all costs rise, very high,
now our drivers’ income cannot compare
to that of an ordinary worker from the countryside.
What is the point? Many people are loath to do it! “
Truck driver A: “Gas used to cost a bit more than
RMB3 per litter, now it’s over RMB7 per liter,
yet the freight has not been adjusted!"
Truck driver B: “To support a family, no way, really!
Don’t know yet how to solve this problem!
The police came to maintain social order and
not let you make trouble, can they solve this issue?"
Dr. Liu Kaiming of Shenzhen’ Social Watch Institute
believes that drivers went on strike simply because
they could not survive, and the high oil prices
are blamed on China’s tax burden.
Liu Kaiming: “The higher oil prices are due to
the National Development and Reform Commission
(NDRC) which sets the prices, because in China
oil price is under the national monopoly control.
When NDRC raises oil prices, it will send a message
that the main reason is the tax being too high.
High oil prices are all due to the high taxation,
meaning that the tax is very high in China."
During this year’s NPC session, Huang Xihua,
a national representative, quoted data
from the National Logistics Association,
that highway toll in China is nine times higher than
in Europe, being 20% of the transportation costs,
plus fuel costs and various fees;
hence the higher the mileage, the bigger the loss.
A Beijing reporter traveling on a truck
from Chengdu to Beijing found out
that highway toll was almost RMB5,000,
accounting for almost half of the shipping cost.
Shipping cost from Guangzhou to Beijing is higher
than it is from Guangzhou to the U.S.
Zou Wei, Zhejiang human rights activist believes
that China appears to be economically prosperous,
but only a few people can get the benefits.
The majority cannot share the economic fruits.
Such economic development is not only abnormal,
but it intensifies the social tensions too.
Zou Wei: “Rising oil prices, logistics costs, and
raw material prices will lead to social disruption.
Because the communist system is not based
on democracy. The development of things
and its economic development
are in fact destructive in the long run.
It doesn’t bring prosperity which people can share."
Hong Kong’s Oriental Daily reported Hu Xingdou,
a China expert, saying that Shanghai truck drivers’
strikes are an economic issue.
Drivers are dissatisfied with the declining income
due to soaring oil prices, therefore went on strike.
In fact, they just wanted to vent their anger,
it might not be legal but it is reasonable,
yet authorities sent the police to suppress the event,
stoking the fire, he said. If they do not solve
the economic and livelihood issues,
a single spark can start a prairie fire.
NTD reporters Zhang Lina, Li Ting and Zhou Ping.
