Tens of thousands of Mexican miners and metal workers joined a
nationwide strike on Wednesday in two separate disputes that
crippled output at the country's biggest mines, metals refineries
and steel mills.
Credit Pacific Service Union Grupo Mexico, the world's No. 3 copper producer, said its
Cananea and La Caridad copper mines were closed for a second day by
a wildcat strike of workers complaining of unsafe conditions.
In the wake of the 18 day wildcat strike action that crippled Belfast's postal service, union members consider launching an official strike.
Credit First Service Union Union workers also closed world No. 1 refined silver producer
Penoles' Fresnillo silver mine in support of embattled union leader
Napoleon Gomez -- although the local union later said most workers
would likely return on Thursday.
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Card Credit Mobile Service Penoles said its silver, gold, zinc and lead refinery complex in
Coahuila state closed on Tuesday night, and workers at most of its
other mines and operations were on strike.
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Card Credit Discover Service Silver prices in New York spiked higher on news that up to 5,000
workers had walked out at Fresnillo, although the market then
closed lower.
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Credit Public Service Union Silver was quoted around $9.74 an ounce at 0500 GMT on Thursday,
after rising to a three-week high of $9.84 the previous day.
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Card Credit Processing Service Late on Wednesday, local union leader Gustavo Barrios said the
union had decided at a meeting that any workers wanting to return
to the job could do so, although it maintained its stand in support
of Gomez.
Center Credit Service Union "We reached an accord where for those
people who want to work, they
will be permitted to go back to work," Barrios told Reuters. "We
don't know how many personnel will return to work but I think it
will be the majority of
people."
Card Credit Service Wireless Three-month London Metal Exchange copper rose $5 a tonne to
$4,860/$4,870 a tonne in early Asian trading hours on Thursday,
after gaining $57 in the last London session.
Credit Security Service Union Grupo Mexico shares soared 5.92 percent to 28.43 pesos and
Penoles was up 2.74 percent to 68.60 pesos.
UNREST
Credit Report Service Mexico's mining industry has faced mounting unrest since an
explosion at a coal mine in northern Mexico owned by Grupo Mexico
killed 65 men last week. Gomez, who called the explosion
"industrial homicide," faces a leadership challenge and accuses the
government and top mining firms of backing his rival.
Blogspot Com Christian Top steel
plants in the country were also
closed by strike action on Wednesday, including Mittal's 4
million tonnes per year Lazaro Cardenas mill in Michoacan
state.
Christian Counseling Credit Sicartsa, part of the same complex but owned by Mexico's
Villacero, was shut down, as was at least one iron ore mine owned
by Luxembourg steel maker Ternium.
Credit Federal Service Union Mexico's AHMSA, the country's No. 3 steel maker and a major
domestic coal miner, said 12,000 workers stopped work at its coal
mines and steel plants in support of Gomez.
Credit Monitoring Service La Caridad and Cananea between them produced close to 320,000
tonnes of copper in 2005. Penoles produces an average of 80 million
ounces of silver per year, the company said.
Credit Division Service Penoles spokesman Luis Rey Delgado said it would use its
stockpiles to try to meet customer orders in the short term.
Card Credit Online Service "We have done everything possible to satisfy in the short term
the demand from our clients and to guarantee supply of our
products," he told Reuters.
Consumer Counseling Credit Inc Several smaller Grupo Mexico operations were also hit by the
stoppages but a copper refinery and smelter at La Caridad was
unaffected, Grupo Mexico spokesman Juan Rebolledo said.
Card Credit Fleet Service The union says the government and mining companies backed
attempts to oust Gomez because he is a tough negotiator.
Card Consolidation Credit Gomez is in turn accused by Grupo Mexico of misuse of funds. He
faces a challenge by another union member, Elias Morales Hernandez,
who says he is the legitimate leader.
Credit Free Online Report (Additional reporting by Gabriela Lopez in Monterrey and
Catherine Bremer in Mexico City)
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