{"id":1117894,"date":"2019-05-26T17:33:53","date_gmt":"2019-05-26T17:33:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mining.com\/?p=989300"},"modified":"2019-05-26T17:33:53","modified_gmt":"2019-05-26T17:33:53","slug":"workers-at-codelcos-chuquicamata-mine-to-vote-on-strike-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/?p=1117894","title":{"rendered":"Workers at Codelco\u2019s Chuquicamata mine to vote on strike action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unionized workers at Codelco\u2019s Chuquicamata operation rejected on Saturday the miner\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mining.com\/web\/chiles-codelco-submits-final-proposal-chuquicamata-union-negotiations\/\"  rel=\"noopener\">final contract negotiation<\/a> offer and announced that on Tuesday and Wednesday they will be voting on a proposal to go on strike.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/1_sindicato\/status\/1132404995033317377\"  rel=\"noopener\">communiqu\u00e9<\/a> made public via social media, the union\u2019s leadership said the proposal presented to them by the world\u2019s No. 1 copper producer was a &#8216;joke&#8217; aimed at suppressing workers\u2019 legitimate aspirations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is clear that the company didn\u2019t take into consideration the four axes, which were the foundations of this process, where two of them implied zero cost for the company. With this [proposal], it was confirmed that the administration\u2019s goal is to impoverish and divide workers and punish those that have fought for workers\u2019 demands in a fiercely and committed fashion,\u201d the statement reads.<\/p>\n<p>The proposal made by Chile\u2019s copper giant to its workers includes bonuses of about $14,150 per worker but eliminates the early signing bonus and maintains the idea -from a previously rejected scheme- of a 1.2% salary readjustment.<\/p>\n<p>Given that this was Codelco&#8217;s final proposal, employees say that the protest action is the logical next step. However, the plan to go on a strike has to be approved by more than half of the 3,200 workers that belong to the three unions operating at Chuquicamata, so union reps are asking employees to show up to the polls.<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"es\" dir=\"ltr\">Sindicatos llaman a votar la Huelga <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0sgEq6gsRw\">pic.twitter.com\/0sgEq6gsRw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Sindicato 1 Chuquicamata (@1_sindicato) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/1_sindicato\/status\/1132387812148432896?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 25, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe also hope that the administration reconsiders both its behaviour and the value it attaches to its workers because the future of this negotiation and of Chuquicamata itself depends on them,\u201d the brief states.<\/p>\n<p>Chuqui -as workers call Codelco\u2019s flagship mine- together with the nearby Radomiro Tomic mine produced 653,000 tonnes of the company&#8217;s total 1.8 million tonnes of output last year.<\/p>\n<p>At present, the state-owned miner is seeking to transform the 100-year-old open-pit deposit at Chuquicamata into an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mining.com\/chiles-codelco-brushes-off-rumoured-copper-output-drop\/\"  rel=\"noopener\">underground mine<\/a> by 2020, when mining at the open-pit ends.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mining.com\/codelco-goes-ahead-scaled-back-underground-extension-chuquicamata\/\"  rel=\"noopener\">$5.6 billion-switch<\/a> is part of Codelco\u2019s 10-year, $39-billion overhaul of its core assets, and it is expected to extend the mine\u2019s life by at least 40 years. Annual production after the transition has been completed is projected to be 320,000 tonnes of fine copper and 15,000 tonnes of molybdenum.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mining.com\/workers-codelcos-chuquicamata-mine-vote-proposal-go-strike\/\">Workers at Codelco\u2019s Chuquicamata mine to vote on strike action<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mining.com\/\">MINING.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unionized workers rejected on Saturday the miner&rsquo;s final contract negotiation offer and announced that they will vote on a proposal to go on strike.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mining.com\/workers-codelcos-chuquicamata-mine-vote-proposal-go-strike\/\">Workers at Codelco&rsquo;s Chuquicamata mine to vote on strike action<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mining.com\/\">MINING.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[439,404,369,738,440],"tags":[28,33,71],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117894"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1117894"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1118052,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117894\/revisions\/1118052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1117894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1117894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1117894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}