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Rebel Union Push Snarls Relations at World's Biggest Copper Mine

  • Some of BHP’s Escondida workers are setting up a new union
  • Negotiations for a new labor contract are due to start in June
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Labor tensions at the world’s biggest copper mine are no longer restricted to relations between union and management.

A group of workers trying to set up a new union at BHP Billiton Ltd.’s Escondida in Chile say they are being intimidated and insulted by members of the existing union, showing how much is at stake in wage talks set to to resume in June.