Uranium Miners Begin Three Day Strike

Reuters reported 1,200 uranium workers at Areva’s (EPA:AREVA) Niger uranium mine have gone on strike for 72 hours demanding higher wages.

As quoted in the market news:

About 1,200 workers at Niger’s Akouta uranium mine owned by COMINAK, a subsidiary of France’s Areva, have began a 72-hour strike to demand higher wages, a union official said on Monday.

Inoua Neino, secretary general of the SYNTRAMIN union, said production had stopped at the over 1,600 tonnes a year mine in the north of the west African nation after the workers downed tools.

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