Codelco Workers Stage One-Day Strike at Chilean Copper Mines
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Chilean copper miners at Codelco downed tools today to push for greater job security, halting production at the state-owned company that accounts for a 10th of global mine supply.
The Codelco strike will last for 24 hours, Miguel Lopez, a union leader at the state-owned producer, said by phone from the century-old Chuquicamata mine. While the umbrella union representing staff of non-state mines said yesterday its members would join the strike, Anglo American Plc and Antofagasta Plc said today their mines were running normally.