Management at Xstrata‘s (LSE: XTA) Altonorte copper smelter in northern Chile held the first face-to-face pay talks with union representatives on Wednesday (Nov 25), in which the company expressed a stance far from acceptable by the workers, union spokesperson Lázaro Lizama told BNamericas.

See http://www.bnamericas.com/news/metals/First_pay_talks_at_Altonorte_far_from_producing_agreement,_says_union/163952340.