Buenos Aires - A brief strike of garbage workers that ended on Tuesday has Buenos Aires choking on 20 000 tons of uncollected waste, officials and union leaders said.
The strike, which began on Sunday, affected 14 million residents of the greater Buenos Aires region.
Workers with the union representing the garbage workers were angry that the city and regional governments had failed to build new garbage processing centres, as promised.
The strike ended when authorities agreed to keep garbage collector jobs and work harder towards building the processing centres that will use “new technologies”, said said Jorge Manzini, the head of the union that organised the strike.
Residents of the sprawling Argentine capital generate nearly 5 000 tons of garbage a day. - Sapa-AFP