Re: News...perhaps pay equity with thier Canadian counterparts???
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Feb 03, 2010 12:04AM
Twilight, here's that article. Disturbing to say the least.
MINEROS DE SAN JUAN DE CHURUNGA INICIAN HUELGA INDEFINIDA MINING OF SAN JUAN DE CHURUNGA LAUNCH INDEFINITE STRIKE
Tired from the constant mockery of the Company CENTURY MINING PERU SAC, 600 workers in the Mining Center of San Juan Chorunga, who runs the aforementioned company, launched an indefinite strike at 00 am on Tuesday 02 February, demanding payment of wages and outstanding employee benefits.
The leaders of the entities belonging workers: Nemesio Mamani Lauri, Secretary General of the Mineworkers' Union of St. John Chorunga, Maurilio Chacondori Chavez, President of the Association of Defense Front of Workers of the LAUMAS - Minas Ocoña and He knew Saturnino, President of the Association of Minority Shareholders of San Juan GOLD MINES SAA, said that labor relations with the employer have been intolerable because of failure to comply with the deadlines for the payment of wages and employment benefits that CENTURY MINING SAC, undertook to solve, then take ownership of business, which was initially run by GOLDEN MINING PERU SAA.
Workers with family members who come from different parts of the country, decided to block their activities and an indefinite strike, while not formalizing the agreements signed by SAA Century Mining Company and the Union of Workers; minutes which were signed in the presence by Dr. Manuela Garcia Cochagne, the current Minister of Labor and Employment when he served as National Director of Labor Relations.
The totalized labor debt of Century Mining Peru SAC to their workers amounts to 9,061, 613.45 U.S. dollars, which is split into debt for pay 5,615, 429.72 dollars and debt for Compensation for Services - CTS 3,446, 183.73 dollars.
Mining Mine Workers of Peru SAC, to demand payment of their labor rights are distributed in the following subsections of the Employer: Minas Ocoña SAA, SAC Minas Cuno Cuno, Johannes Gold Mining SAC, Compania Minera SAC Erika, Small Business and San Juan Operations SAC.
The Secretary General of the San Juan Mine Workers of Chorunga also reported that lack the appropriate safety equipment to perform its work and existing security appliances and machinery, lack of maintenance, which puts at risk the lives of workers .