Wage negotiations with car manufacturers are stuck in several Brazilian regions. In the south, 8.500 workers came out on strike last week and Sao Paulo's plants - the country's largest metalworkers' pole - are threatening to follow their example. Unions demand wage increases between 13% and 18% as well as 40-hour work weeks. (Ref. 080663)
Negotiations on the annual wage agreement in the metallurgy sector, which concern 700.000 workers, are proceeding against the background of strikes and protests, although some manufacturers have already reached compromises with the trade unions. Around 4.500 workers from the Volkswagen-Audi plant in the Parana state (southern Brazil) decided on Friday to extend the strike launched on Monday, September 1. The company made a first offer, a 10% wage increase, which the trade unions rejected at the
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