Wage talks for hundreds of copper miners at Zambia’s largest copper mine, the Konkola Copper Mines (KCM), resumed on Tuesday.
The salary negotiations disintegrated into violence last week when hundreds of the miners staged a protest leading to the arrest of eight miners.
The miners became impatient at the slow pace of the negotiations, thereby staging the protest that led to the arrests at the mine following running battles with the police.
A company spokesman told journalists on Tuesday that order has been restored at the mine headquarters in the town of Chingola, north of the capital.
He could not say how long the negotiations would take but said senior mine officials and labor representatives were anxious to reach a deal soon.
He said the company would not interfere with the fate of the eight arrested miners and that they would have to go through the due process of the law.
Source African Press Agency
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