Tuesday, February 2, 2010

San Juan Strike information

MINEROS DE SAN JUAN DE CHURUNGA INICIAN HUELGA INDEFINIDA MINING OF SAN JUAN DE CHURUNGA LAUNCH INDEFINITE STRIKE

Tired from the constant mockery of the Company CENTURY MINING PERU SAC, 600 workers in the Mining Center of San Juan Chorunga, who runs the aforementioned company, launched an indefinite strike at 00 am on Tuesday 02 February, demanding payment of wages and outstanding employee benefits.

The leaders of the entities belonging workers: Nemesio Mamani Lauri, Secretary General of the Mineworkers' Union of St. John Chorunga, Maurilio Chacondori Chavez, President of the Association of Defense Front of Workers of the LAUMAS - Minas Ocoña and He knew Saturnino, President of the Association of Minority Shareholders of San Juan GOLD MINES SAA, said that labor relations with the employer have been intolerable because of failure to comply with the deadlines for the payment of wages and employment benefits that CENTURY MINING SAC, undertook to solve, then take ownership of business, which was initially run by GOLDEN MINING PERU SAA.

Workers with family members who come from different parts of the country, decided to block their activities and an indefinite strike, while not formalizing the agreements signed by SAA Century Mining Company and the Union of Workers; minutes which were signed in the presence by Dr. Manuela Garcia Cochagne, the current Minister of Labor and Employment when he served as National Director of Labor Relations.

The totalized labor debt of Century Mining Peru SAC to their workers amounts to 9'061, 613.45 U.S. dollars, which is split into debt for pay 5'615, 429.72 dollars and debt for Compensation for Services - CTS 3'446, 183.73 dollars.

Mining Mine Workers of Peru SAC, to demand payment of their labor rights are distributed in the following subsections of the Employer: Minas Ocoña SAA, SAC Minas Cuno Cuno, Johannes Gold Mining SAC, Compania Minera SAC Erika, Small Business and San Juan Operations SAC.

The Secretary General of the San Juan Mine Workers of Chorunga also reported that lack the appropriate safety equipment to perform its work and existing security appliances and machinery, lack of maintenance, which puts at risk the lives of workers .

4 comments:

rick said...

so it make me scared to return for work for century mining i dont wont to have the same trouble again, century still look like the same old century in the pass they try to alway wait to pay what they have to pay now .century still du us some money the 3 months of notice before they close the mine in val dor we still wait for that cash to

rhump said...

Hi Rick,,, so what you are saying is that CMM still owes you some back pay? I believe it will becoming shortly, now that the new financing is in place. Let us know. This is what keeps me from investing anymore into this company, even though I think CMM has the assets to be a top producer in the region. I hope the best for you and your co-workers and I hope that the Peru issue is resolved soon too. There is a lot of clean up this company must do to change the market sentiment. The best one would have been to remove Peggy Kent from CMM completely. Give her the big adios. She would walk away a very happy woman financially. I guess that is too much to ask.

Anonymous said...

What a slap in the face it would be if she quit and stock gained a buck next day!!

Won't happen,

rick said...

rhump you can invest in cmm cuz lamaque project got a lot of resource in the undergroud and trust me on that , but century still have to pay the 3 months of notice to us. and in the past century only buy old and scrap equipment and they really negligate the maintenance on it a really hope they change there mind on that, and they going to show some more money to keep the miners in cuz century pay less than the other mine in the region about 20 to 30% minus show money on the table and you going to have all miners you want and other mines give money for the traveling and the rent for a room for thos guys who came from over 150 km from the mine