***UPDATE***
Agreement reached - services building back up
The transport strike which crippled Geneva yesterday will continue today - and it will be worse.
Unions decided to continue the strike today during a meeting yesterday afternoon, saying there have been no meaningful offers from the company.
Workers are demanding index linked pay rises to counter the cost of living.
The TPG say services today will be fewer than yesterday as they haven’t had a chance to bring in an emergency timetable. The company says it takes ten days to make such arrangements.
Strikers and their supporters marched through the centre of town yesterday afternoon. Around 1,000 gathered on the Place de Neuve to hear speeches from union leaders.
Yesterday other public service unions also took action – but they will be back at work today.
The Federal Council says it will not take any immediate retaliatory measures against the United States following the Trump Administration’s decision hit Switzerland with a 31% tax on exports.
In a hard-hitting editorial in the Blick newspaper this morning – it calls Trump an ‘angry old man’ - the paper says the Federal Council has to face the issue of world trade with clarity and courage – but admits it has a tough job ahead.
A Geneva court has thrown out an appeal against the new vehicle tax levied by Geneva which caused shock and surprise at the beginning of the year when many saw their tax bills soar.
US president Donald Trump unveiled a series of tariffs against countries around the world. He says the United States has been ‘looted, robbed and raped’ by friends and foes alike.