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LatinNews Daily - 25 June 2018

In brief: Chile

Chile: Union workers at the Chuquicamata mine, Chile’s largest copper mine, have voted in favour of a strike. Unions 1, 2, and 3 of the mine have denounced the lack of dialogue with the national copper corporation (Codelco), the state-owned enterprise that manages the mine. The unions condemn the poor working conditions and a working environment of “terror” with threats and redundancies including the summary dismissal of 1,700 workers announced during the first week of May. Although a date for the industrial action has not yet been set, according to a press release by the Chuquicamata unions there will be “permanent and incremental” mobilisations which could escalate to the level of a corporate strike called by the federation of copper workers’ (FTC) sector-wide union. The Chuquicamata mine is one of the world’s largest copper mines and is located in Chile’s Antofagasta region.  

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