Mexican Mine Company Attempts to Buy Workers it Could Not Beat
by Dan La Botz
January 27, 2010
For two and a half years, copper miners near the Arizona border have been on strike—and the mine’s owner and the Mexican government have been unable to break them.
Firings, threats, violence, court orders, an intimidating police presence, and the organization of rival company unions have not during all this time been able to break the Mexican Miners and Metalworkers Union at the Cananea mine.
Unable to beat the union, the mine owner Grupo Mexico is now trying to buy the workers with a severance package worth approximately 800,000 pesos or about $80,000 to each miner.
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