Trade union members employed at BHP's operations center in Santiago de Chile were set to begin an indefinite strike on Thursday May 27, Fastmarkets has heard.
Around 200 employees represented by the union were to stop working at BHP's Center of Integrated Operations, which manages the concentrates and cathode machinery at the company's Escondida and Spence copper mines.The strike was called after union members rejected the company's latest wage offer. This had been presented in a five-day, government-led mediation process that started last week, after the regulation period for negotiations ended without a deal earlier in...