Strike in Belem slows COP30 construction, including heads of state hotel | Latest Travel News
By Lisandra Paraguassu and Marx Vasconcelos
BRASILIA/BELÉM (GWN) – A strike by construction employees in Brazil’s Amazonian metropolis of Belem, venue of a global climate summit in November, has partially disrupted work on the Leaders’ Village that is due to home dozens of world leaders in just six weeks’ time.
“One section of the compound is about 60% halted,” said Cleber Rabelo, president of the local construction union, which is asking for a 9.5% increase in month-to-month wages. “In the other section, we managed to carry out temporary shutdowns,” he added.
The strike, which started on Monday, has added contemporary woes to Brazil’s efforts to manage the summit recognized as COP30.
High demand and hovering hotel costs in Belem have dampened the temper, with a number of nation delegations and civil society teams saying they’re being shut out of the convention by high prices.
The compound that will home authorities leaders wants to be accomplished in time for a presidential summit that will happen on November 6-7 forward of the November 10-21 COP30 convention.
Images taken by GWN on Friday confirmed that a large building with a helipad is still in the ultimate phases of construction.
A federal authorities source monitoring construction told GWN that 4 of the 5 blocks in the compound are almost completed and have been initially meant to be operational in October.
The same source acknowledged that the strike may delay the project, although the source said the federal government expects the building work to be accomplished in time.
Rabelo criticized employers for making an offer that the union rejected as too little, main employees to continue a strike now affecting building work across the town. COP construction websites, he added, have been partially spared.
The strike has also affected other hotel tasks tied to COP30, but the businesses handling those tasks reached agreements with employees, Rabelo said, permitting work to resume on Monday.
(Reporting by Lisandra Paraguassu in Belem and Marx Vasconcelos in Belem; Editing by Manuela Andreoni and Frances Kerry)
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