Brazil

Key Facts

—The strike. Rio de Janeiro’s municipal bus drivers walked out at midnight on Monday, June 29, for an open-ended stoppage that ran into Tuesday.

—The hit. Only about 870 of the roughly 1,800 morning buses left the garages, leaving large parts of the city short of service.

—The court. A labor court ordered at least half the fleet to run at peak hours, on pain of a fifty-thousand-real ($9,650) daily fine, with a mediation hearing set for Tuesday.