Striking Mexican Workers Seek Greater Mine Safety
Demanding greater safety, about 4,000 Mexican workers Tuesday struck at copper mines owned by the operator of a coal mine where 65 men died in an explosion last week.
The workers voted to strike at the country’s two largest copper mines, La Caridad and Cananea, owned by Grupo Mexico.
An additional 1,500 walked out of the company’s zinc mine and a processing facility in central Mexico after negotiators failed to reach agreement on a new contract, union officials said.
Grupo Mexico is among the world’s largest copper producers. Its operations in Mexico and Peru produced about 770,000 tons of copper last year.
The strikers are asking for contract revisions, as well as improved maintenance of the mines and better safety measures after the Feb. 19 explosion at the Pasta de Conchos mine in the northern state of Coahuila entombed the 65 miners.
On Saturday, the union called on families of the victims not to negotiate any compensation agreement with the company until the labor group defined its own proposal.
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