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SAO PAULO, May 11 (Reuters) - Union workers at Brazil's Santos port on Tuesday delayed a possible strike until next month, amid demands to know how soon they will be vaccinated against COVID-19, a union official said.
Santos is South America's largest port and critical to Brazil's commodities exports.
Union workers held a meeting on Tuesday to decide on whether to go on strike, with initial plans for a work stoppage this week.
Bruno José dos Santos, president of the Sindestiva union representing port workers, told Reuters after the meeting that they would put off a decision on a possible strike and reevaluate if they were not vaccinated by June 1.
A strike could directly affect the mooring and unmooring of ships, cargo operations and attendance by watchmen, shipping agent SA Commodities/Unimar Shipping said in a notice to clients earlier in the day.
Many of the marine terminals would not be affected as they are privately operated, without unions, SA Commodities/Unimar Shipping said.
The government categorizes port workers as a priority group for immunization, but the timeline for when they will receive shots is unclear. (Reporting by Ana Mano in Sao Paulo Editing by Chizu Nomiyama, Matthew Lewis and Richard Chang)
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