Significance: The Callao port, which handles 70% of Peru's imports and exports, ground to a halt on 12 May over workers' demands. The head of the Asociación de Exportadores (ADEX) and the Sociedad de Comercio Exterior del Perú (ComexPerú), which represent export, import and shipping companies, called for the Peruvian congress to ignore the demands of the port workers. Adex argues pay increases would damage commercial competition. The strike demonstrates the powerful position of the 1,100 container and port workers.
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