A union at Anglo American Plc and Xstrata Plc’s Collahuasi unit in northern Chile rejected a new wage offer and warned members to prepare for a prolonged strike at the world’s fourth-biggest copper mine.The mediated talks started Oct. 29. Collahuasi’s workers almost unanimously rejected a company pay offer on Oct. 27 that included a bonus of 8.9 million pesos ($18,262).
Union workers at Chile's giant Collahuasi mine resume government-mediated wage talks on of a strike hitting output at the world's third-biggest copper union workers overwhelmingly rejected a company wage offer and copper a year, or 3.3 percent of the world's mined copper.
Workers staged a four-day strike during Collahuasi's last wage negotiations in 2007 and union-backed protests hit national federation of workers at private mines. If workers on Nov. 5. Workers could copy the Collahuasi union's tactics to wrest Workers at Codelco's 300,000-tonne-a-year Radomiro Tomic