Freeport Strikers End Government-Led Talks Amid Dispute on Pay

Sept. 25 (Bloomberg) -- "Workers at Freeport McMoran Copper & Gold Inc. in Indonesia withdrew from government-brokered talks that failed to bring agreement on wages at the company’s Grasberg mine, where a strike continues, a union official said.

About 8,000 employees, or 70 percent of Freeport’s workforce at Grasberg excluding contractors, walked out on Sept. 15 to demand wage rises. Labor negotiators returned to Papua on Sept. 23 after three days of mediation in Jakarta led by the manpower ministry, said Virgo Solossa, head of organizational affairs at the union."

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