More than 500 Haifa stevedores today ended their slow-down action which they started last week in a bid for 25 percent wage increases. Fruit-picking in Israel’s citrus orchards, which had been suspended to avoid further pileups of unloaded crates of fruit at the Haifa docks, was resumed.
The stevedores returned to work today and made special efforts to reduce a backlog of 250, 000 crates of fruit for export. The end of the slow-down action followed the start of negotiations with the United Port Services Company.
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