Strike cripples Brazil’s airports

Brazil’s National Sanitary Regulatory Agency staff went on strike on July 16 to press for a 25 percent pay rise and better working conditions, AFP quoted Ricardo de Holanda, spokesman for the Sinagencias labor union, as saying on Tuesday.

The union said the strike has crippled 70 percent of the agency’s port and airport activities across the country. Brazilian airports account for 90 percent of the country’s export transit.

Brazilian ports were hit especially hard as sanitary control officials stopped issuing documents required for handling goods.

Officials said the strike has spread to several other facilities, but all vessels were granted the necessary documents in the major southeastern port of Santos.

In April, nearly 7,000 workers, who were building the massive Belo Monte dam in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest, went on strike to protest their working conditions.

Their demands included free airfare, permission to visit their hometowns every three months instead of every six months, which is the current break period, and higher-value monthly meal vouchers.

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