After the federal government ordered unions and employers to the negotiating table following an eight-day strike Argentine grain ports and soy crushing plants located near the city of San Lorenzo slowly resumed operations.
Hugo Lopez, deputy secretary general of the edible-oil workers union in San Lorenzo, said the union's 3,000 members have gone back to work after picketing workers affiliated with other trade unions started to lift their siege of the ports.
"In 24 hours everything will be back to normal," he said in a telephone interview. "The plants are being put back into operation, there is grain on hand, and more grain can now be trucked in." The local port authority said shipping activity in the affected area has yet to resume, with 22 vessels still docked or moored near the San Martin, San Lorenzo and Timbues port terminals. Read more...
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