Glencore, workers union to restart talks after 11 weeks of Hunter Valley strikes

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Unionized workers at Glencore’s six export coal mines in easternAustralia’s Hunter Valley are to hold off engaging in large-scale strikes inorder to restart negotiations with the coal producer next week, following11 weeks of rolling industrial action, said a senior union official on Friday.Around 1,400 workers belonging to the Construction, Forestry,Mining and Energy Union finished a four-day strike on Thursday atfive of Glencore’s open-cut mines — Bulga, Glendell, Liddell,Mangoola and Ravensworth — and have returned to normal working,said union and company sources.