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Showing posts with label Vale Inco. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Vale Inco. Show all posts
21 October 2013

Vale delays Long Harbour smelter… again #nlpoli

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Earlier this year,  mining giant Vale was saying they’d start production at the new Long Harbour smelter in 2013 , but after a meeting with ...
27 January 2011

Tentative deal in Voisey’s strike

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As reported by CBC . As reported by the Telegram . - srbp -
23 October 2010

Will Danny expropriate?

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Talks between Vale and its Voisey’s Bay union broke down again on Saturday. This is after Premier Danny Williams tried to be “ the voice ...
22 October 2010

Williams tries inadvertent humour to help end Voisey’s Bay strike

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When the threat of an industrial inquiry didn’t send the two sides scurrying back to the negotiating table, Danny Williams called the union...
09 October 2010

Information expropriation: Premier threatens industrial inquiry over Voisey’s strike

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Premier Danny Williams is warning both parties in the 14 month old strike at Voisey’s Bay that his administration will appoint and industri...
16 September 2010

Prov Gov appoints mediator in Vale strike

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The provincial government today announced the appointment of Bill Wells as a mediator in the ongoing labour dispute at Voisey’s Bay. The ...
04 July 2010

Tentative deal at Vale in Ontario

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From the Globe and Mail : The end to a long-running and bitter strike in Ontario is in sight as mining giant Vale announced it reached...
14 June 2010

The M-shaped recovery

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You’ve heard of the W-shaped recession. Now think about an M-shaped recovery in the middle. Rather than two dips and then a rise, this wou...
28 May 2010

Every nickel counts

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Officially, the Old Man noticed the thousands of people affected by the nine-month old strike at Vale Inco. So he calls his buddy the Prem...
13 July 2009

Sudbury workers on strike

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Vale Inco’s unionized employees in Sudbury hit the picket line Monday after 85% rejected the company’s latest contract offer in voting on th...
08 July 2009

Strike looming at Sudbury and Voisey’s Bay

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Unionized workers at Voisey’s Bay voted on the weekend to reject a contract offer by the employer Vale. A vote at Vale’s Sudbury operation...
03 March 2009

Cuts, reductions, layoffs

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1.  Vale Inco will be cutting jobs from its Canadian operations, including an unspecified number in Newfoundland and Labrador. 2.  Kruge...
20 February 2009

Prov gov’t expropriated after it lost bid to buy hydro asset

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Human resources minister Susan Sullivan appeared on local talk radio today responding publicly to a letter by Grand falls-Windsor lawyer Mar...
29 January 2009

Vale Inco nickel processor a go

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The company’s release : In December 2008, Vale Inco Newfoundland and Labrador submitted a draft Implementation Plan for the Long Harbour...
24 January 2009

No word on Long Harbour smelter

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Vale Inco had until Thursday to submit its plans for the smelter at Long Harbour. No word from the provincial natural resources departmen...
17 December 2008

Déjà vue all over again

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Just when everything was settling down, the brute force expropriation of AbitibiBowater assets has stirred everything up again. Lord Haw ...
04 December 2008

Business as usual

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1.  AbitibiBowater to shut GFW mill. 2.  Vale Inco to close Voisey's Bay for one month in 2009. Yep. No one saw this coming at ...

Vale cuts staff, production globally

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1.  Globe and Mail reports Vale Inco will be cutting output at Sudbury. 2.  Globally, the situation is significant: Dec. 3 (Bloomber...
12 November 2008

Thanks, Roger Grimes

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Vale Inco will build a smelter at Long Harbour, as the company announced in its October 16 capital expenditure report and as Bond Papers to...
08 November 2008

First, we assume a smelter...

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that might possibly lead to making stuff to make cans that we can assume a can-opener to use on. Take a deep breath. We are now in a world w...