Weekly Report - 21 May 2015 (WR-15-20)

Peru’s new prime minister, Pedro Cateriano, faces a crash course in crisis management as social unrest in the key mining sector shows no sign of abating. To add to the indefinite strike and protracted protest action over the Tía María copper mining project in the southern region of Arequipa, members of the national federation of mining, metallurgy and steel workers (FNTMMSP), Peru’s largest mining trade union, announced an indefinite national strike on 18 May to protest against government laws which it argued decreased workers’ rights and undermined job security.

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