	rotterdam port union and employers to meet dutch port and transport union fnv agreed to an employers request to reconvene abandoned peace talks tonight to try to end strikes that have disrupted rotterdam s general cargo sector for the past six weeks a union spokesman said talks broke down thursday when the union walked out after employers tabled their final offer to end the strikes which started january in protest at planned redundancies of from the sector s workforce starting with this year the employers invitation to restart the talks comes on the day a deadline set by minister of social affairs louw de graaf for a resolution of the dispute expires de graaf said if the dispute had not ended by today he would withdraw the mln guilder annual labour subsidy to the sector no comment was immediately available from the employers organization reuter 
