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Freeport Cerro Verde Miners to Strike, Citing Labor Conditions

By Alex Emery

July 9 (Bloomberg) -- Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc.'s Peruvian copper mine workers plan to go on strike July 16, their second labor stoppage in a month, a union official said.

Workers at Freeport's Cerro Verde unit in the southern Andes, who staged an 11-day strike last month, will walk off the job to push for better working conditions and for fired workers to be reinstated, union General Secretary Leoncio Amudio said today in a telephone interview.

Freeport union officials are set to hold government- brokered talks July 11, Amudio said. Cerro Verde is Peru's third-largest copper mine.

To contact the reporter on the story: Alex Emery in Lima at [email protected].