After nine regional and three central rounds of negotiation, BAVC and IG BCE have reached an accord in the wage dispute: remuneration for the 550,000 employees at the 1,900 plants of the chemical and pharmaceutical industries will rise 2.8 ...
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An end to a two week-old strike at Chile's largest coal mine appears close at hand after one of two unions involved agreed to return to work Thursday. In a statement Friday, Mina Invierno said the union representing maintenance workers at ...
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Reuters reported that workers at the world's biggest copper mine,Chile's Escondida,have rejected an early pay offer made by mine controller BHP Billiton. A union leader said that the risk of a strike appears remote,however,because it is ...
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Bloomberg reported that workers at Southern Copper Corp, the largest producer of the metal in Peru, plan their first strike in four years on December 24 after wage talks broke down. Smelter union official Ricardo Juarez said that unions ...
Tags: metal, Southern Copper Corp, strike, wage talks, smelter union, copper, zinc