Analysts say BHP's quick fix to a recent six-day strike at its huge Escondida copper mine in Chile could set the tone for upcoming negotiations elsewhere.
Conditions in China’s steel sector are like a “harsh winter” that will be “longer, colder and more difficult to endure than we expected,” Baowu Steel's chairman said.
Workers suspended a planned all-out strike after Britain's biggest steel producer warned that it would bring forward the planned closure of its two blast furnaces at Port Talbot if walkouts went ahead.