Copper Union Plans Strikes as Chile Shipments Restricted
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Workers at Chilean copper mines owned by BHP Billiton Ltd. and Anglo American Plc are preparing protests to push for greater job security as the country gears up for presidential elections this year.
“This is a warning to the presidential candidates that they need to get with the program,” Agustin Latorre, a spokesman for the Mining Federation of Chile, an umbrella organization known as FMC representing 11,000 workers, told reporters yesterday in the city of Antofagasta. “These themes aren’t going to go away.”