Monday, July 9, 2007

Peru's Miners Cancel Plans for Two-Day Strike After Talks, Union Head Says

(Bloomberg) -- Miners in Peru, the world's third-
largest copper producer, canceled a two-day nationwide strike
after moving closer to solving a dispute over companies' efforts
to restrict the creation of new unions, a union leader said.

``We are reaching an accord,'' Luis Castillo, general
secretary of the Mining Federation, an umbrella group for mine
workers, said July 9 in a telephone interview from Lima. The
stoppage had been due to start at midnight local time. The talks
were held with the government and company representatives.


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