The World - News from Sept. 3, 1989
President Alan Garcia announced new health and wage benefits for Peru’s 70,000 miners, two days after they ended an 18-day national strike. The benefits, including a 40% boost in compensation for on-the-job accidents, partially addressed the miners’ 42-point list of demands. But a miners’ union leader denounced the new benefits as a way to undermine support for any future strike. “They are still insufficient to cover the abysmal gap between miners’ wages and the cost of basic necessities,†said Victor Taype, president of the Miners Federation. Garcia said he had signed a decree creating a special minimum wage for miners that is 25% higher than the $39 a month for other workers.
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