Subcontracted workers at Collahuasi, Chile’s second largest copper mine, have been on strike for almost two weeks demanding better working conditions and a payment of one million pesos (US$2,000) to each worker to end the strike (ST, May 11, 2010).

The strike began Friday, May 7. Negotiations broke down the next day, operations stopped, and police were called to clear the mine’s main entrance, blockaded by striking workers.

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