Four-Hour Subway Strike
Ends in Argentina
A subway strike ended
Monday after going on
for four hours,
disrupting services on
five of the six subway
routes in Buenos Aires
and affecting some
700,000 people.
Subway workers staged
the strike from 7 a.m.
to 11 a.m. local time
(1000 and 1400 GMT) to
protests against
"forced" election of
certain guild delegates,
said Jorge Mendez, a
subway guild
representative.
They also protested
against a lack of proper
working security
measures, Mendez said.
The strike was suspended
after the Train
Transport Union Guild (UTA)
canceled the previously
announced election
results.
Five million people
travel by subway every
day in Argentina.
Hundreds of thousands of
Buenos Aires citizens
were forced to use cabs
and buses in the wake of
the strike.
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