RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Health workers blocking roads near Argentina's large Vaca Muerta shale oil and gas deposit on Monday rejected a government wage offer and vowed to continue a three-week protest that is threatening a national fuel shortage.
Workers in the region are demanding higher wages amid a fierce second wave of the country's Covid-19 epidemic. They include hospital orderlies, maids, nurses and doctors who have erected some 25 roadblocks around the town of Anelo, in Neuquén province, about 1,000 km south-west of Buenos Aires.
Argentine state-run YPF produces nearly 13 . . .
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