{"id":31283,"date":"2026-03-13T08:47:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T08:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/31283\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T08:47:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T08:47:08","slug":"workers-start-strike-at-glencores-australian-copper-refinery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/31283\/","title":{"rendered":"Workers Start Strike at Glencore\u2019s Australian Copper Refinery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Workers at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/GLEN:LN\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Glencore Plc<\/a>\u2019s Australian copper refinery have started a strike, after an 11th-hour meeting between the company and its workforce failed to yield an agreement in a pay dispute.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Members of the Australian Workers\u2019 Union, which represents most of the workforce at the site, will begin industrial action at the Townsville facility on Friday, seeking a 15% pay rise, the body said in a statement late Thursday, after a final meeting between the sides.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Workers at Glencore Plc\u2019s Australian copper refinery have started a strike, after an 11th-hour meeting between the company&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31284,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[123],"tags":[11466,1665,351,7438,132,352,70,6107,10622,2790,231,18864],"class_list":{"0":"post-31283","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-glencore","8":"tag-apple-inc","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-china","11":"tag-generic-1st-hg-future","12":"tag-glencore","13":"tag-glencore-plc","14":"tag-government","15":"tag-great-britain","16":"tag-industries","17":"tag-jobs","18":"tag-markets","19":"tag-youtube"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116221001355691406","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}