Transit strike strands 2 ml people in Brazil
Xinhua, January 27, 2015 Adjust font size:
A transit workers' strike on Monday stranded more than 2 million residents in Brazil's southern city of Curitiba.
Most bus drivers in Curitiba, the eighth-largest city of Brazil and the capital of southern Parana state, launched the indefinite strike in demand of backpay.
A majority of transit workers, whose union first announced the strike on Friday, went through with the labor stoppage, despite facing heavy fines for doing so. Only two companies were running on Monday.
City officials and union leaders were scheduled to meet late Monday to negotiate an end to the strike. Endi