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Freeport Union says it plans Grasberg strike
Freeport-McMoRan Inc
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reeport-McMoRan Inc. faces a strike at its Grasberg copper mine in Indonesia, the world's third- largest, over concerns about worker safety, according to a union spokesman.
The union gave notice to the company that it plans to strike, Juli Parorrongan said by phone on Monday. About 11,000 to 12,000 employees will join the protest, he said.
Daisy Primayanti, a spokeswoman for Freeport's Indonesian unit, wasn't immediately available for comment. Eric Kinneberg, a Freeport spokesman in Phoenix, where the company is based, didn't immediately respond to requests for comment outside of regular office hours.
Freeport, the world's largest publicly traded copper producer, temporarily halted open-pit mining at Grasberg after a Sept. 27 collision between a light vehicle and a truck left four workers dead. A Sept. 12 rockfall killed another worker. In May 2013, 28 people died after a tunnel collapsed.
Grasberg's sales in 2013 were 885 million pounds of copper and 1.1 million ounces of gold, Freeport said in its annual report. It was the third-largest copper mine by capacity as of 2012, according to Bloomberg Intelligence data. BHP Billiton Ltd.'s Escondida and Codelco's Codelco Norte operation, both in Chile, were the largest.
