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 News Around the Republic of Mexico | March 2006 
Mexican Mining Strike Spreads to 70 Companies, Union Says
 Alex Emery - Bloomberg
| | A relative of one missing miner cries outside a mine complex near San Juan de Sabinas in northern Mexico last week. The Grupo Mexico company said that while no bodies had been found, tests showed there was almost no oxygen left inside the shafts and tunnels and no hope of finding survivors from the explosion. (Reuters/Daniel Aguilar) |
A Mexican miners' strike expanded nationwide as about 60,000 workers joined to pressure for union independence, social benefits, and improved security after a Feb. 19 blast killed 65 workers at a coal mine, a union official said.
Miners at 70 companies including Mexico's largest silver producer, Industrias Penoles SA, and steelworks Altos Hornos de Mexico SA joined striking workers at Grupo Mexico, the world's fourth-largest copper producer, National Mining Union spokeswoman Consuelo Aguilar said in a phone interview from Mexico City.
The strike will continue until the government accepts union leader Napoleon Gomez as general secretary, Aguilar said. Labor Minister Francisco Salazar called the national strike illegal and said the government will only deal with rival leader Elias Morales.
Mexico is the world's third-largest silver producer.
Alex Emery aemery1@bloomberg.net |
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