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2009–2010 Vale Inco strike. 2009–2010 Vale Inco strike was a labour dispute in Port Colborne, Ontario and Sudbury, Ontario which lasted from July 13, 2009 to July 8, 2010. [ 1] Striking workers were part of United Steel Workers Local 6500. [ 2] It was the longest strike in Canadian history, [ 3] surpassing the 1978 Inco strike. [ 4][ 5]
A strike at Vale's operations, which began on July 13, 2009, was tentatively resolved in July 2010. [27] The 2009 strike lasted longer than the devastating 1978 strike, but had a much more modest effect on the city's economy than the earlier action—unlike in 1978, the local rate of unemployment declined slightly during the 2009 strike. [28]
Vale's nickel mining and metals division is headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It produces nickel, copper, cobalt, platinum, rhodium, ruthenium, iridium, gold, and silver. Prior to being purchased by CVRD (now Vale) in 2006, Inco was the world's second largest producer of nickel, and the third largest mining company outside South Africa ...
The question of where Voisey's Bay ore would be processed had previously been one of the obstacles to developing the site, with the government of Newfoundland and Labrador demanding that a facility be built in the province to provide jobs there, [19] [20] while Inco workers in Sudbury and Thompson were simultaneously threatening to strike if ...
The Inco Superstack in Sudbury, Ontario, with a height of 381 metres (1,250 ft), is the tallest chimney in Canada and the Western Hemisphere, and the second-tallest freestanding chimney in the world after the Ekibastuz GRES-2 Power Station in Kazakhstan. It is also the second-tallest freestanding structure of any type in Canada, behind the CN ...
Creighton Mine is an underground nickel, copper, and platinum-group elements (PGE) mine. It is presently owned and operated by Vale Limited (formerly known as INCO) in the city of Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. Open pit mining began in 1901, and underground mining began in 1906. [1] The mine is situated in the Sudbury Igneous Complex (SIC ...
Vale S.A. Vale (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈvali]), formerly Companhia Vale do Rio Doce (Doce River Valley Company), [6] is a Brazilian multinational corporation engaged in metals and mining and one of the largest logistics operators in Brazil. [7] Vale is the largest producer of iron ore and nickel in the world.
Strike Zone 10 is open Sunday through Thursday from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. and Friday to Saturday from 11 a.m. to midnight. For more information about Strike Zone 10, please call 229-890-0891 or visit ...