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Metalworkers in Brazil march for jobs, wages
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| Brazilian metalworkers marched from Sao Paulo to the capital, Brasilia, in late October to demand the government take steps to create jobs and to demand a wage increase. Unemployment in Sao Paulo, Brazil’s industrial center, is 17 percent, and in other metropolitan regions it has soared to the highest levels since the mid-1980s. The buying power of workers’ wages has fallen by 7 percent with the devaluation of the national currency, the real. |