Workers at an ArcelorMittal mill in the city of Juiz de Fora, in the state of Minas Gerais, went on strike for three hours on Monday, according to a local union, blocking the mill’s entrance.
Asking for better wages, the workers lifted the blockade once the company agreed to continue negotiating a wage increase with the union.
The Juiz de Fora mill is currently undergoing an expansion at its meltshop, which is expected to increase capacity by 200,000 mt once the project completed, by 2018 “at the earliest,” according to an ArcelorMittal SEC filing dated March 2017.
In 2015, capacity at the Juiz de Fora mill was expanded from 50,000 to 400,000 mt.