Chilean State-run miner Codelco, the world’s largest copper producer, presented workers from three unions with a sweetened contract offer late Wednesday, hoping to avert a strike at the century-old Chuquicamata, union leaders told Reuters.
Codelco ent…
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The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) confirmed on Wednesday night that all mineworkers who staged a sit-in underground at the Chinese African Precious Metal Company (CAPM) in Orkney, in the North West since last weekend, have resurfaced from undergr…
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State miner Codelco, the world’s top copper producer, said on Wednesday that it had agreed on a new labour contract with the union of supervisors at its small Salvador mine in northern Chile.
The union and company had entered into a government mediate…
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Mineral Resources Minister Gwede Mantashe and Labour Minister Mildred Oliphant have welcomed the end of the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union’s five-month strike at Sibanye-Stillwater’s gold operations. The parties announced the resolut…
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A near-month-long labour strike over contractor changes at the Yauricocha mine, in Peru, ended at the weekend. Canada-based mining company Sierra Metals has said that an agreement was reached whereby no contractors dismissed as part of the contractor c…
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A near-month-long labour strike over contractor changes at the Yauricocha mine, in Peru, ended at the weekend. Canada-based mining company Sierra Metals has said that an agreement was reached whereby no contractors dismissed as part of the contractor c…
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TSX-listed miner Sierra Metals has suspended all mining and milling activity at its Yauricocha mine, in Peru, after unionised workers downed tools over contractor changes in a strike that is deemed illegal. The employees belong to the Union of the Mine…
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Miner KGHM will extend negotiations with a union at its Chilean copper mine Sierra Gorda, averting a strike, a union representative said on Tuesday.
The company had until the end of Tuesday to request government mediation to help reach a deal with th…
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A union at Chile’s Sierra Gorda copper mine, controlled by Polish mining company KGHM, could go on strike this week after rejecting the latest offer in contract negotiations, the union leader told Reuters on Monday.
The company still has until the en…
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In 1987, an anti-apartheid firebrand named Cyril Ramaphosa led South Africa’s biggest-ever mining strike. Some 300 000 miners – from a union Ramaphosa himself had founded – walked off the job, protesting pay and working conditions. The mining company “…
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