Byline: Richard Ducote
Jul. 3--Arizona's copper industry and its union work force have both declined dramatically in influence over the last two decades.
But passions still flare when contracts come due in the mining towns. So it is with Asarco and its union coalition representing about 1,500 hourly workers.
The two sides are facing off for what could be the last great struggle of organized copper labor in the state. Consolidation has left only two major producers in the state and only Asarco has union workers. Phelps Dodge unions in Arizona evaporated after the violent 1983 strike.
Asarco workers see high copper prices now and ask for more …
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