Vol.64/No.21            May 29, 2000 
 
 
Brazil teachers fight to raise wages
 
 

Thousands of elementary and high school teachers march in São Paulo in early May. Since farmers and landless rural workers launched a wave of mass protests in late April demanding agrarian reform, transport workers and teachers have organized strike actions to defend their plummeting living standards and to oppose government austerity measures.

 
 
 
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