After more than 100 days, more than 630 union workers at the Glencore Raglan operation in Quebec, the province’s largest nickel mine, are headed back to work with a new contract. The new collective agreement between the operator and the United Steelworkers Local 9449, which represents production and maintenance staff at the Nunavik site, extends for five years and includes…
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More than 600 members of the United Steelworkers union have gone on strike at Glencore’s Raglan nickel mine in the Nunavik region of Quebec, Canada, suspending production. In all, 630 members of IndustriALL affiliate Syndicat des Métallos/United Steelworkers walked off the job over what it has termed a “lack of respect” from their employer, along with an “extensive” use of…
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Nickel, Copper Mine In Michigan Is Origination Point For A New Benchmark: A Trip By An Electric Car From 1,774 Feet Below Sea Level To 14,115 Feet Above It. Lundin Mining and its Eagle underground nickel mine in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula recently worked alongside luxury carmaker Porsche to set a new Guinness World Record: the greatest altitude change ever achieved…
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