4,000 Wildcat Strikers Fired at Zambia Mine
From Reuters
LUSAKA, Zambian —
More than 4,000 copper miners who took part in a weeklong strike have been fired, a spokesman for the giant Zambia Consolidated Copper Mines said Sunday.
A labor source said that most of the fired men worked at the mine where the strike began on June 1, over demands for revision of a pension plan.
The strike does not have the backing of the Mineworkers Union of Zambia. The union represents 52,000 of the nation’s 60,000 copper miners.
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