	two brazilian ping firms settle with strikers two small ping companies have reached a pay deal with striking seamen but union leaders said most of brazil s seamen were still on strike a union spokesman in rio de janeiro said the seamen had accepted a pct pay offer from the companies globo and flumar which have less than employees each the two week strike comes as brazil faces a debt crisis and is delaying exports badly needed to earn foreign exchange labour minister almir pazzionotto said the government will not force a settlement of the strike which was ruled illegal last friday reuter 
