Despite these profits, miners at Asarco have not received a pay increase in 10 years. “No pay increase, not even a cost of living increase, and everything is on its way up. I made more in 2005 than I did this past year and that’s miserable,” Moreno told the Guardian. In July 2017, a worker at the Asarco mine in Sahuarita, Arizona, died in a vehicle collision. We put our lives on the line every day to give the world what it needs.

Source: The Guardian December 20, 2019 09:00 UTC