At 2,000 miles south, in Patagonia, 280 workers at the Mina El Toqui, Breakwater Resources, with operations also in Honduras and Canada were nearly a week in a legal strike for better working conditions, without the least media coverage Chileans.
national media attention given to sites in the Atacama region in contrast to what happened in the Aysen region, where neither the roadblocks or burning tires or the eviction of dozens of workers contractors caught the attention of the Chilean press.
This the first strike in nearly two decades of running a business where you play a frame of 900 people, many sporadic and employed by subcontractors. The 280 miners mobilized are all plants and are the complete list of workers attached to the union.
are several underground workings the Sociedad Contractual Minera El Toqui, founded in 1975 and operating since 1983, kept under this legal. Are they Doña Rosa (zinc and gold), San Antonio yMallín-Monica (zinc and lead), and Statues (zinc), Concordia (zinc and lead) and Sawmill (gold). After several transfers in 1997 was acquired by a Canadian mining transnational Breakwater Resources.
Before the start of the strike, the SEREMI Mining (UDI) geologist Victoria Moya (who served at some point in the Toqui), called the miners to lay down their demands considering that "the shifts they have are privileged, who have managed to get through the national mining companies, although this is not what the workers say.
Source: The Citizen
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