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Chilean workers vote to strike at world’s biggest copper mine

August 1, 2018 euronews Leave a Comment

By Antonio De la Jara SANTIAGO (Reuters) – Workers at BHP Billiton Ltd’s Escondida mine in Chile, the world’s biggest copper mine, have voted to reject a company wage offer and go on strike, according to a communique sent to Reuters on Thursday. A total of 2,330 members voted on strike action, with 1,955 supporting it and 370 accepting the company’s final offer, with four blank votes and one spoiled ballot, according to the statement. “We hope that given this clear wish to reject the company’s offer, which has been expressed in a mature and democratic way by our bases, the company will see the need to find an agreement that recognises our rights,” it added. BHP , which told Reuters earlier on Wednesday that it would not comment on the vote overnight, is expected to request government mediation to attempt a resolution, which could delay any strike action for as many as 10 days. A looming strike at Escondida comes a little more than a year after a 44-day walk-off at the mine jolted global copper markets and docked economic growth in the South American country, which is the world’s top copper producer. The decision to strike had been widely expected as a partial count of votes circulated by the union on Tuesday suggested an overwhelming majority of its workers favored the strike. The Anglo-Australian miner’s final offer, presented to workers last week, included an approximately $18,000 signing bonus, and a 1.5 percent boost to salaries, with increases for… [Read full story]




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