A union representing workers at BHP Group’s (BHP.AX) Escondida and Spence copper mines will seek to start a strike, it said on Tuesday, after government labor officials tried but failed to mediate an agreement.
Middle EastJob-seeking Omanis protest again, press cash-strapped government
Aziz YaakoubiDavide Barbuscia
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Sultan Haitham bin Tariq al-Said gives a speech after being sworn in before the royal family council in Muscat, Oman January 11, 2020. REUTERS/Sultan Al Hasani
Groups of Omani protesters demanding jobs gathered on Tuesday in several cities for the third consecutive day, activists said, in the biggest challenge yet to the Gulf state s new ruler.
Social media postings showed a group of protesters holding a sit-in under a bridge in the northern city of Sohar. Other protests were reported in several other towns, including Rustaq, Nizwa and Sur.
The Biden administration will seek to approve more than a dozen offshore wind projects in the next four years and open the Pacific Ocean off California to such development as it seeks to bolster the nascent U.S. industry, officials said on Tuesday.
BusinessU.S. aluminum tariffs have led to investment, jobs -think tank study
Reuters
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U.S. tariffs on aluminum imports imposed by former president Donald Trump and continued by President Joe Biden have led to increased output, employment and capital investment by domestic producers, a new study from a left-leaning think tank showed on Tuesday.
The Economic Policy Institute said the 10% aluminum tariffs, imposed in March 2018 under the Section 232 national security section of a Cold War-era trade law, have led to $6 billion in 57 downstream aluminum product manufacturing projects that will employ over 4,500 additional workers.
They will add more than 1.1 million metric tons in annual rolling and extrusion capacity, said the report, which was released as U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai begins talks with the European Union to resolve disputes over the U.S. tariffs on EU steel and aluminum. read more