Workers at BHP Billiton Copper Mine In Chile Go On Strike
February 09 2017 - 7:46AM
Dow Jones News
By Ryan Dube
Workers at BHP Billiton Ltd.'s majority-owned Minera Escondida
copper mine in Chile went on strike Thursday following unsuccessful
talks for a new collective bargaining agreement, a union official
said.
"People didn't show up to work," said Carlos Allendes, a
spokesman for Escondida's largest union, Union No.1. "The strike
has begun."
Escondida, the world's biggest copper mine that accounts for
about 5% of global output of the metal, has said it would halt
production during the strike.
BHP, which has a 58% stake in Escondida, said last month that
the mine would turn out 1.1 million tons of copper during the
12-month period that ends on June 30.
Write to Ryan Dube at ryan.dube@dowjones.com
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
February 09, 2017 07:31 ET (12:31 GMT)
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