Escondida mine (Credit: BHP)
A union of remote workers for BHP’s Escondida and Spence copper mines in Chile walked off the job early on Thursday after efforts to ink a labor contract deal with the company’s management fell through, fueling uncertainty over the global supply of the red metal.
The strike at Escondida, the world’s largest copper mine, and at the smaller Spence comes as copper prices have spiked amid soaring demand as the world’s largest economies revive following more than a year of coronavirus-induced stagnation.
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The 205-member union runs BHP’s Integrated Operations Center, which remotely manages pits and cathode and concentrator plants from Santiago.
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James Attwood, Bloomberg News An employee stands on a lift inside the Teniente copper mine near Rancagua, Chile. Photographer: Laura Millan Lombrana/Bloomberg , Photographer: Laura Millan Lombrana/Bloomberg
(Bloomberg) Workers at BHP Groupâs remote operations center in Santiago rejected the companyâs final wage offer, triggering a mediation process in a bid to avoid a strike.
Almost 97% of the unionâs 203 members opted to strike in voting that concluded Friday, according to a union statement. Under Chilean labor rules, BHP now has the right to call for five days of government mediation that could be extended another five days if both parties agree.
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