Strike At Constellium Aluminium Can Recycling Plant In Alabama Continues
A strike is currently underway at Constellium’s aluminium used beverage containers (UBCs) consuming mill in Muscle Shoals. According to a...
US Steelworkers
Century And USW Reach Five-Year Labor Deal At Hawesville Aluminium Smelter
American smelter Century Aluminum announced yesterday an agreement with the labor force at its Hawesville, Kentucky smelter that will govern the relationship between the two parties for the next five years. In a press release, subsidiary Century Aluminum of Kentucky General Partnership...
United Steelworkers Accepts New Four-Year Labor Contract With Alcoa
Pittsburgh aluminium pioneer Alcoa Corporation and United Steelworkers (USW) said late last week that USW’s membership at Alcoa’s facilities voted...
Kaiser Aluminum Appoints Leo Gerard To Board Of Directors
California’s Kaiser Aluminum Corporation announced on Thursday the appointment of Leo W. Gerard to its board of directors, raising the...
Events
Alcoa And United Steelworkers Reach Tentative Agreement On New Labor Contract
Pittsburgh aluminium pioneer Alcoa Corporation announced a tentative accord with United Steelworkers over a four-year labor contract covering about 1,700 workers at five plants throughout the United States. No details were released by either the firm or the union, but the USW said it would send delegates from the negotiating committees into the field to […]
Alcoa, USW Agree To Continue Under Prior Agreement As Negotiations On New Accord Continue
American aluminium pioneer Alcoa Corporation said Thursday it has reached an agreemet with United Steelworkers to continue working under the labor contract now in place until a new contract can be negotiated. Per Alcoa, the 1,700 employees covered under the contract are located at 5 plants in the United States, specifically Indiana’s Warrick Operations, New […]
Quebec Government Announces C$100 Million Aid Package to Small Aluminium Smelters
The government of Quebec announced earlier this week a plan to come to the rescue of the province’s smaller aluminium and steel firms by way of a C$100-million loan package. As hinted at last week, Canadian Economy Minister Dominique Anglade rolled out the plan on Monday shortly after meeting with representatives of the province’s aluminium […]
USW Chief Girard Defends “Crucial” Trump Aluminium Tariffs
The head of North America’s biggest union offered a counterpoint to the global condemnation of the Trump aluminium tariffs in an editorial over the weekend, reaffirming the United States president’s reasoning behind enacting the broad tariffs earlier this year. United Steelworkers president Leo W. Girard wrote in an opinion piece published on Sunday that Trump’s […]
Contract Talks to Resume At Québec Aluminium Smelter ABI
Alcoa Corp will soon resume negotiations with the union labor force currently on strike at Québec’s Aluminerie de Bécancour Inc. (ABI). The plant’s management made known its readiness to again take up labor talks with the provincial labor ministry late last week. The ABI plant, which boasts a primary aluminium production capacity of around 430 […]
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 ...
