Brazil Oil Workers Walk Off Their Jobs
Associated Press
SAO PAULO, Brazil —
Tens of thousands of oil refinery workers went on strike Friday and threatened to bring Brazil’s 10 refineries to a standstill unless their wages are raised, officials said.
It was the latest in a wave of labor unrest caused by a sputtering economy under President Jose Sarney.
Durval Gomes, one of the directors of the Rio de Janeiro Refinery Workers Union, said strikers are demanding a 154% pay increase and that Petrobras offered 67.27%.
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