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July 1, 2008
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Brazilian postmen on strike over danger allowance

RIO DE JANEIRO, July 1 (Xinhua) -- Postal workers of a Brazilian state-owned company have gone on strike in a dispute over the payment of a danger allowance.

There is confusion over exactly how many postmen have joined the industrial action, with their union claiming 80 percent and employer Empresa Brasileira de Correios e Telegrafos (ECT) saying it was just 30 percent.

The dispute centers on the state-owned company's refusal to fulfill an agreement to pay postmen a danger allowance of 30 percent of their wages, signed in Nov. 2007.

The workers' union claims the terms of the agreement, which was ratified this year by Helio Costa, Brazil's ...

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