Friday, July 13, 2007

Zambia's Konkola agrees to wage deal with miners

(Reuters) - Zambia's Konkola Copper Mines (KCM) has signed a new labour deal that will give its unionised workers a 20-percent salary increase, a union official said on Friday.

Albert Mando, the general secretary of the National Union of Allied and Mining Workers (Numaw), said workers agreed to the deal after the company, majority-owned by London-based Vedanta Resources, raised its wage offer from 16 percent.


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