Exclusive-BHP delivers final offer to workers at Chile’s Escondida copper mine -memo
FILE PHOTO: A worker from BHP Billiton s Escondida, the world s biggest copper mine, is pictured inside a copper cathodes plant in Antofagasta, Chile March 31, 2008. Picture taken March 31, 2008. REUTERS/Ivan Alvarado/File Photo
July 27, 2021
By Fabian Cambero
SANTIAGO (Reuters) -Labor contract negotiation at Chile’s Escondida mine, the world’s largest copper deposit, entered into a critical phase on Monday with the delivery of a final offer by operator BHP, according to an internal memo sent by the company to workers and seen by Reuters.
Negotiations over the past two months between the company and its powerful workers’ union over a new labor contract have been conducted in utmost secrecy, against a backdrop of record high metal prices amid expectations of a gradual global recovery from the coronavirus pandemic.
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