UPDATE 3-Brazil dock workers end strike, expose fragile ports
Fri Feb 22, 2013 2:34pm EST  * Stoppages lasted 6 hours at grain
ports Santos, Paranagua  * Unions back at work, agree to call
off Tuesday strike  * Protests target government drive to
privatize ports  By Gustavo Bonato and Roberto Samora  SANTOS,
Brazil, Feb 22 (Reuters) - Dock workers returned to work at
ports across Brazil on Friday after they disrupted the movement
of global commodities with a six-hour strike in protest of the
government's plan to overhaul regulations and privatize hundreds
of terminals.  The short-lived stoppage provided a glimpse of
what could be a tense harvest for Brazil, one of the world's
biggest commodities exporters, if unions do not reach a deal
with the government and call off an open-ended strike set for
mid-March.  Until then, ports should operate normally as both
parties agreed to a negotiation period that runs through March
15. Workers decided to call off a second six-hour stoppage
planned for Tuesday.  "We are t