The World - News from Sept. 16, 1986
Most of Brazil’s 750,000 bank workers returned to their jobs after suspending a strike to demand wage increases, union leaders said. In Rio de Janeiro and Brasilia, the strike ended Friday, but in Sao Paulo, the country’s largest industrial center, and other cities bank employees had continued staying away from work. Stevedores at the port of Santos remained on strike, as did schoolteachers and welfare workers. On Saturday, flight attendants of the domestic airline Vasp went on strike for salary increases, and 78 flights were canceled over the weekend.
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