By Nicholas Bariyo
Special to Dow Jones Newswires
Workers at Zambia's largest sugar producer, Zambia Sugar PLC
(ZSUG.ZM), have ended a strike after securing a 15% pay hike,
allowing the company to resume output after the labor action
disrupted operations for nearly a week, officials said Monday.
Workers started reporting back for duty on Saturday following a
deal with the National Union of Plantation and Allied Workers, the
company and union said in a joint statement.
Tensions between the union and management flared up early last
week, and 3,000 workers participated in the strike.
The workers had been demanding a 35% pay rise, but settled for
15%, ending the impasse.
Zambia Sugar, a unit of South Africa-based Illovu Sugar Ltd.
(ILV.JO), Africa's largest sugar producer, said that it lost at
least 2,000 metric tons of sugar output a day during the
strike.
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