Portugal’s fuel-tanker drivers voted on Saturday to strike from Monday for an indefinite period, raising fears about the impact on the country’s tourism-dependent economy during the busy summer season. “Our members spoke,” Francisco Sao Bento, president of the National Hazardous Materials Drivers’ Union (SNMMP), told reporters after the strike vote by members of the two unions representing freight drivers. The vote means the strike will go ahead as planned after the failure of negotiations with the employers’ association ANTRAM, as drivers demand higher wages and better working conditions. Striking SNMMP drivers will ... (full story)