# Argentine grain receivers resume direct actions as salary talks fail - Fastmarkets

> Urgara, the union for Argentina's grain receivers, says it will resume direct industrial action after salary talks with the private ports chamber CPPP broke down. The union has not set dates but says it is carrying out sudden strikes at grain ports. The dispute centres on a pandemic bonus that the chamber offered to pay only partly.

- Date: 2020-11-09 · published 2020-11-09T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: logistics · region Argentina · magnitude medium
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/50156-argentine-grain-receivers-resume-direct-actions-as-salary-talks-fail-fastmarkets
- Commodities: [Soybean Meal](https://feedsoft.ai/c/SBM.md), [Soybean Oil](https://feedsoft.ai/c/SBO.md), [Soybeans](https://feedsoft.ai/c/SOY.md)

## Why it matters

Unannounced port strikes in Argentina can slow soymeal and soyoil exports and raise freight and delivery uncertainty, which tends to firm global soy product prices.

## Read by commodity

- SBM: bullish ▲
- SBO: bullish ▲
- SOY: bullish ▲

## Similar past events

| Commodity | Date | Event | 5-day % | 20-day % |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| SBM | 2021-05-20 | [New strike actions renew pressure on Argentine grain shipments - Fastmarkets](https://feedsoft.ai/events/46937-new-strike-actions-renew-pressure-on-argentine-grain-shipments-fastmarkets.md) | -3.8% | -6.5% |
| SBM | 2020-10-14 | [Argentine crush workers launch strike action over wage demands - Fastmarkets](https://feedsoft.ai/events/50481-argentine-crush-workers-launch-strike-action-over-wage-demands-fastmarkets.md) | +3.7% | +10.1% |
| SBM | 2021-01-22 | [Argentina's Atlantic ports paralysed as lorry drivers strike deepens - Fastmarkets](https://feedsoft.ai/events/49133-argentina-s-atlantic-ports-paralysed-as-lorry-drivers-strike-deepens-fastmarkets.md) | -1.9% | -1.8% |
| SBM | 2020-05-28 | [Demand For Brazil Grains Rise As Argentine River](https://feedsoft.ai/events/53348-demand-for-brazil-grains-rise-as-argentine-river.md) | +1.5% | +1.7% |
| SBM | 2020-09-27 | [Argentine grains port workers to strike after talks collapse \| Financial Post](https://feedsoft.ai/events/51122-argentine-grains-port-workers-to-strike-after-talks-collapse-financial-post.md) | +3.7% | +14.7% |
| SBO | 2020-10-14 | [Argentine crush workers launch strike action over wage demands - Fastmarkets](https://feedsoft.ai/events/50481-argentine-crush-workers-launch-strike-action-over-wage-demands-fastmarkets.md) | -1.2% | +6.9% |
| SBO | 2026-02-19 | [The Argentine maritime workers’ strike for reform of labor halts grain shipments](https://feedsoft.ai/events/20631-the-argentine-maritime-workers-strike-for-reform-of-labor-halts-grain-shipments.md) | +2.7% | +1.3% |
| SBO | 2020-11-13 | [Lobby warns of national strike as Argentine crush workers’ wage talks…](https://feedsoft.ai/events/49995-lobby-warns-of-national-strike-as-argentine-crush-workers-wage-talks.md) | +4.8% | +6.8% |

## Sources

- fastmarkets.com: https://www.fastmarkets.com/insights/argentine-grain-receivers-resume-direct-actions-as-salary-talks-fail/

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