A possible break in the three-day slow-down strike here by 500 stevedores, which has cut deeply into loading of citrus fruit for export, was seen today as negotiations between the workers and the United Port Services Company got underway. The strike began during the height of the loading season.
The workers are demanding a wage boost of 25 percent. They staged their protest by sticking strictly to standard norms for loading the crates. The slow-down has resulted in a reduction of at least half of the normal leading capacity at the port of 100,000 crates a day. The Israel Citrus Board ordered picking of oranges in groves to be reduced by 50 percent for each day of the slow-down until the backlog of unloaded crates of citrus fruits could be cleared up.
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