Workers Trickle Back To Aluminerie de Bécancour As 17-Month Lockout Ends
Aluminerie de Bécancour’s (ABI) unionized workforce began making its way back into the plant on Friday, marking the end of...
Bécancour Smelter
Weak Sales Prices Hamper Earnings For Rio Tinto’s Aluminium Sector In Front Half Of 2019
Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto Group released results for the first half of 2019 late last week. The firm’s aluminium business was stable from an operational perspective in the opening half, but price declines took their toll on the segment. In the...
Lockout Ends At Aluminerie de Bécancour With Labor Vote To Accept Alcoa Contract Offer
A months-long lockout and curtailment at Aluminerie de Bécancour Inc. (ABI) in Quebec is over after a vote on Tuesday...
ABI’s Labor Force To Vote On Alcoa’s Final Offer Next Week
Last week’s “final offer” from Alcoa Corporation to the striking workers at Aluminerie de Bécancour Inc. will be put to...
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Alcoa Submits Final Contract Offer To Aluminerie de Bécancour Laborers
Alcoa Corporation tendered what it describes as its final offer to striking employees at Aluminerie de Bécancour Inc. (ABI) smelter in Québec, Canada on Wednesday in hopes of bringing an 18-month dispute with hourly employees at the plant to an end. The company did not delve into specifics of the offer it tendered to United […]
Aluminerie de Bécancour Pitches “Final” Contract Offer To Locked-Out USW Workers
Management at Aluminerie de Bécancour (ABI) has tendered to the plant’s labor union United Steelworkers what it classifies as the “final” contract offer in hopes that it breaks the labor dispute that has idled the plant for over a year. The firm, which is a joint venture between Alcoa Corporation (75 percent) and Rio Tinto […]
Alcoa Nixes Offer For Binding Arbitration At Aluminerie de Bécancour As 13-Month Lockout Continues
After over a year of on-and-off negotiations between management and labor at Aluminerie de Bécancour, Alcoa Corporation opted to decline an offer for binding arbitration talks by the United Steelworkers union. According to union spokesperson Clairandree Cauchy, the USW’s 700 workers of Local 9700 voted unanimously in favor of seeking binding arbitration. For its part, […]
Alumina Production By Rio Tinto Projected To Rise To 8.4 Million Metric Tons In 2019
The new year will see a rise in production of both bauxite and alumina from the world’s largest miner. Such was the news from a production report released by Anglo-Australian mining titan Rio Tinto Group late last week. In 2019 the company expects to produce between 8.1 million and 8.4 million metric tons of the […]
Alcoa To Cut Capacity At Aluminerie de Bécancour’s Lone Operating Potline
Citing the continuing impasse in labor negotiations, Pittsburgh aluminium pioneer Alcoa Corporation announced yesterday the immediate curtailment of half the production of the lone potline at Aluminerie de Bécancour Inc. (ABI) smelter in Québec, Canada. The curtailment is but the latest step in a labor dispute that has gone on for over a year. The […]
Biden Infrastructure Bill A Big Boon To Aluminium Industry: Norsk Hydro VP Mike Stier
Earlier this month the United States Congress passed into law President Joe Biden’s US$1.2 trillion infrastructure package. The Investing in a New Vision for the Environment and Surface Transportation in America Act (or the INVEST in America Act) will allocate US$550 billion ...
The Net-Zero Shift Starts With Low Carbon Aluminium
2020 was supposed to be “year of climate action”, with the Glasgow COP26 acting as a major milestone for both ...
Aluminium at the LME Week – Key Takeaways
Between October 28 and November 1st, London hosted the traditional London Metals Exchange (LME) Week gathering of analysts, brokers, traders ...
Aluminium Market Oversupplied, Demand Growth Flat
Base metals prices reacted positively to the progress registered in the latest round of US – China trade talks in ...
