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Albemarle Corp, the world’s top lithium producer, said on Wednesday it had reached a labour contract agreement with a union at its Atacama plant, ending a month-long strike that had inflamed tensions between workers and the company.
The 135-member ‘Albemarle Salar’ union, which comprises about half of the workers at its key production plant in Salar, went on strike in August after failing to reach an agreement with the US lithium mining company.
According to the company, operations at the Salar plant are back to normal, with a focus on worker safety while production returns to pre-strike levels.
The company clarified on Wednesday that the strike led to a reduction in the pumping of lithium-rich brine at its Salar plant, where the strike took place, but that the industrial action did not impact overall production at its La Negra chemical plant, where the brine is processed into lithium carbonate for batteries.
