Zambia Mopani Copper Miners Reject 12% Pay Rise; Back To Work After Brief Strike

Workers at Zambia's Mopani Coppetotal coper deposits in pakistanr Mines have rejected a 12% pay rise offer, a union official said Monday, in the latest wage dispute to hit the mining sector of Africa's largest copper-mining nation, .

The miners are seeking at least a 20% increase to meet escalating living costs, including higher prices of food and other basic commodities, Godwell Kaluba, the general secretary of the National Union of Miners and Allied Workers told Dow Jones Newswires. More than 3,000 miners at Mopani, Zambia's third-largest copper and cobalt producer, staged a sit-down strike on Saturday following a briefing on the management's latest offer by union leaders, disrupting output for more than 12 hours, union officials said. Kaluba said the miners resumed work, pending the...