智利金属：Cerro Colorado工会拒绝BHP公司提议

　　文华财经（综合编译 刘娜）--据圣地亚哥2月2日消息，必和必拓公司（BH P Billiton）旗下位于智利北部的Cerro Colorado铜矿工会领导人表示，在公司管理层新的合约未能达到他们的预期后，工人计划发动罢工。

　　工会领导人Jose Galaz拒绝透露新提议的详细内容，不过他表示工会已经拒绝了该提议，这个工会拥有556名工人。

　　“我们准备罢工，尽管这一协议需要在周日经由我们工人同意，但很清楚的是我们即将举行罢工。”

　　Galaz表示罢工定于下周三开始。

　　本周稍早，Cerro Colorado工人投票

　　 Galaz said the strike was due to start next Wednesday.

　　 Earlier this week, Cerro Colorado workers voted

　　overwhelmingly to reject a contract offer from London- and

　　Sydney-listed BH P, which entailed a 2.0 percent pay rise.

　　 The company then asked for five more days to reach

　　agreement, as it is entitled to do under Chilean labor law.

　　 The union has demanded a pay increase of 7.8 percent to

　　reflect the rise in copper prices since the last contract was

　　negotiated three years ago.

　　 Cerro Colorado produces some 115,000 tonnes of copper per

　　year, or about 2.1 percent of Chile's total output.

　　 Last year, workers at BH P Billiton's Escondida copper mine,

　　the world's largest, also in northern Chile, staged a 25-day

　　strike.