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Source: ANI

A trade union leader on Wednesday died after being hit by a bus he was trying to stop from plying as part of a two-day nationwide strike in India called by central trade unions, sparking tension in the district where authorities have imposed prohibitory orders.
Narendra Singh, 55, who was squatting along with a group of workers near the local bus depot, died when he was hit by the bus, a senior Roadways official said here.
Narrating the sequence of events, Vidyarthi said, “Narender Singh was standing outside the workshop, on the other side of the driver’s seat.
District president, Haryana Roadways Workers Union’s, Inder Singh Bhadana demanded that a case to be lodged against the General Manager of the Roadways, failing which union leaders will not allow the body to be cremated.
A number of roadways employees and members of various employees’ unions gathered at the civil hospital at Ambala city where the body of Singh was kept for postmortem.
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Source: The Nation

Dock workers returned to work at ports across Brazil on Friday after they disrupted the movement of global commodities with a six-hour strike in protest of the government’s plan to overhaul regulations and privatize hundreds of terminals.
The short-lived stoppage provided a glimpse of what could be a tense harvest for Brazil, one of the world’s biggest commodities exporters, if unions do not reach a deal with the government and call off an open-ended strike set for mid-March.
Until then, ports should operate normally as both parties agreed to a negotiation period that runs through March 15. Workers decided to calloff a second six-hour stoppage planned for Tuesday.
“The paralyzation caused irreparable damage to the national logistics chain,” Jose dos Santos Martins, executive director of the country’s national association of terminal operators, known as Sosesp.
With a record soybean harvest and strong corn and sugar crops putting pressure on Brazil’s antiquated roads and ports during a brewing labor dispute, doubts are mounting about the country’s ability to meet delivery contracts.
Even before some 30,000 stevedores walked off the job at 36 ports...