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Copper output at Codelco's Salvador mine hit by strike - Union-2017 China(Guangzhou)Int’l Non-Ferrous Metal（Copper）Exhibition
9/7/2016 有色金属展-铜材展-non-ferrous metals expo |
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The company and union said that striking workers at Codelco''s small Salvador copper deposit in Chile have blocked access to the mine and are affecting production.
The union said that it would go on strike this week after failing to reach agreement in contract talks.
Codelco said that protests began on Sunday night and that currently "the mine has been occupied and operations are paralyzed."
In a statement, the state-run copper producer said that its final contract offer had been approved by the union covering Salvador''s concentrator workers, but rejected by the refinery and smelting union. That had triggered a legal strike, which had prevented those not on strike from doing their job.
The company said that "It is not yet possible to quantify the effects of this strike in production terms, as that depends on the extent of the stoppage."
Union spokesman Mr Waldo Gomez said that employees who are not part of the protest were unable to get to work.
He said that "As we have cut off the access to work, they can''t go up. The only tasks being are done are those in the very basic operative line, but it''s not producing at 100 percent." -2017 China(Guangzhou)Int’l
Non-Ferrous
Metal（Copper）Exhibition
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