MEXICO - Mexico's mining industry hit by strike

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Mexico's mining

industry hit by strike

Workers protest

conditions, support union boss after deaths

Wednesday,

March 1, 2006; Posted: 9:33 p.m. EST (02:33 GMT)

 

MONTERREY, Mexico (AP) --

Mexico's mining industry virtually shut down Wednesday

when thousands of miners went on strike to support their union boss, who may be

ousted amid accusations he responded poorly to a mining tragedy that left 65

coal miners dead.

Mexico's Mining and Metal workers union asked their 250,000 members to

halt work indefinitely in coal, steel, copper and other mines throughout Mexico, in support of union

president Napoleon Gomez Urrutia. Striking miners also are demanding better

working conditions.

The full extent of the strike wasn't clear Wednesday

afternoon, although a number of major companies confirmed work stoppages --

including the world's biggest silver producer, Penoles.

The mining tragedy has turned into a finger-pointing scandal

with the miners union embroiled in an internal power struggle and federal and

state government officials accusing each other of using the disaster for

political gain.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/americas/03/01/mexico.mines.ap/index.html

 

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