Sit-in strike ends
09/05/2008
Striking workers have left a tannery in Uruguay 61 days after starting a sit-in industrial protest.
The employees of the Napalan tannery began the action in March after the facility's owners said debts were forcing them to close down.
Workers were owed unpaid wages and bonuses, including an extra Christmas payment and, in the face of claims from Napalan that it could not pay up, they locked themselves in.
The action came to an end on May 6 when employees began leaving the site carrying hides, other raw materials and some of the machinery the tannery had used, which they had been given in place of payment.
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