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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]
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 ...
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]
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 ...
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.
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 ...
The Vale Railway (reporting mark VAEX[1]), formerly the INCO Railway (reporting mark INCX[2]), is an industrial railway operating in the City of Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. It is owned and operated by Vale Limited. An internal, private railway, the line connects Vale's mines and processing plants that dominates the city's skyline.
11,600 workers [2] The Inco strike of 1978 (locally referred to as the Sudbury Strike of 1978) was a strike by workers at Inco 's operations in Sudbury, Ontario, which lasted from 15 September 1978 until 7 June 1979. It was the longest strike in Inco or Sudbury history until the strike of 2009–10, and at the time broke the record for the ...