Brazil's central bankers strike for second day

Eighty per cent of Brazilian central bank employees went on strike for a second day in demand of a pay rise, central bank spokesman Jocimar Nastari was quoted as saying this week.

The workers are asking for an average 42 percent pay raise, retroactive to April, Tarso Colovi, president of the central bank employees' national union, said outside the bank's main office in Brasilia, where strikers were picketing. Colovi said that 90 percent of the central bank's employees have joined the stoppage --

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