Argentine maritime workers’ labor reform strike halts grain shipments

BEUNOS AIRES: Argentine maritime workers from the country’s maritime workers federation FESIMAF launched a 48-hour strike on Wednesday over a planned labor reform, which the country’s grain exporters’ chamber said was paralyzing shipments in the nation’s ports. “This (48-hour strike) is clearly bringing agro-export activities to a complete standstill,” Gustavo Idigoras, the president of Argentina’s CIARA-CEC grain exporters and processors chamber told Reuters. “We believe it is a purely political measure that is far removed from specific needs,” he added.

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