Tradesmen at Seaspan shipyard operations in North Vancouver and Victoria have stopped work in support of Seaspan tugboat captains and engineers, who have been without a contract since 2019.
Carpenters in Ontario have joined with other construction workers in an expanding strike wave in response to burgeoning inflation that is eroding wages.
Workers Struggles: The Americas
Chilean union federation issues strike call over pay demands
Chile’s Workers Unitary Central (CUT) labor federation called for a nationwide strike for April 30, the day before International Workers Day, to press for a wage rise and other demands. The call followed an April 15 CUT National Extended Council meeting of some 200 union officials.
The demands that will be put forward in the strike include a 500,000 peso (US$711) emergency rent payment, a freeze on food prices and a minimum monthly wage of 500,000 pesos. Most activities from nonattendance at telework sites to hanging of flags for victims of COVID-19,
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By Hugh Bronstein and Maximilian Heath (Reuters) – Argentina’s soy crushing companies signed a contract with the country’s oilseed workers unions late on Tuesday, ending a 20-day strike over wages that had paralyzed exports from the world’s top supplier of soymeal livestock feed.
The deal, following a more than 10-hour negotiation session, includes a two-part 25% increase in salaries from January to August. Increases for the rest of the year are to be determined by the inflation rate, Argentina’s CIARA soy crushing chamber said in a statement.
“An agreement was reached with the oilseed workers’ unions in a meeting held at the Ministry of Labor, to lift the strike that had paralyzed port terminals and the agro-industrial complex,” it said.
(Recasts with end of strike)By Hugh Bronstein and Maximilian HeathBUENOS AIRES, Dec 29 (Reuters) - Argentina's soy crushing companies signed a contract with the country's oilseed workers unions late on Tuesday, ending a 20-day strike over wages that had paralyzed exports from the world's top supplier of soymeal livestock feed.