JAKARTA: Workers have ended a strike at a huge Indonesian gold and copper mine owned by US firm Freeport-McMoRan after an 11-day walkout that hit operations, the company said Monday. The workers’ union said they were angry about differences in bonus payments given to them and an engineering team at the site. The strike hit operations at Grasberg’s open-pit mine but an underground mine at the site was unaffected, and a processing plant continued operating at limited capacity. “As a result, normal operations have resumed at the Grasberg open-pit mine.”He did not provide details of the terms of the agreement. In 2011, a three-month strike crippled production at the mine, and workers only halted the industrial action once Freeport agreed to a huge pay rise.

Source: Manila Times October 10, 2016 05:37 UTC