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	<title>AFI International Blog - Covering Work Stoppages, Labour Disputes, and Strike Security &#187; United Steelworkers</title>
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		<title>Tentative deal reached in bitter U.S. Steel lockout</title>
		<link>http://afi-international.com/bulletin/2011/10/11/tentative-deal-reached-in-bitter-u-s-steel-lockout/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 20:34:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A tentative agreement has been reached in the bitter 11-month lockout at US Steel&#8217;s Hamilton mill, the former Stelco Inc. operations, as the industry slogs ahead amid a slowing global economy. The United Steelworkers union said Tuesday that details of the agreement will be presented to the 900 union members, who have been off the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Locked-out Hamilton steel workers warned they won&#8217;t be protected</title>
		<link>http://afi-international.com/bulletin/2011/09/30/locked-out-hamilton-steel-workers-warned-they-wont-be-protected/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2011 17:56:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[GREG KEENAN &#8211; The Globe and Mail United States Steel Corp. has issued a stern warning to locked-out workers at its Hamilton facility that its operations there have lost “massive” amounts of money since 2007 and will not be kept open by subsidies from profitable mills. In a letter to employees, U.S. Steel Canada president [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Strike threat at B.C. copper mine</title>
		<link>http://afi-international.com/bulletin/2011/09/26/strike-threat-at-b-c-copper-mine/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 06:35:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Teck's Highland Valley Copper]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Workers at Canada&#8217;s largest copper mine are ready to walk off the job. The 1,100 workers at Teck&#8217;s Highland Valley Copper mine near Kamloops, B.C., have voted 99.5 per cent in favour of striking, after talks broke down last week. The strike vote follows news from Teck that it plans to expand its coal production in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kootenay Savings poised for strike</title>
		<link>http://afi-international.com/bulletin/2011/02/07/kootenay-savings-poised-for-strike/</link>
		<comments>http://afi-international.com/bulletin/2011/02/07/kootenay-savings-poised-for-strike/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Feb 2011 13:56:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://afi-international.com/bulletin/?p=986</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Unionized workers at Kootenay Savings Credit Union are in a legal position to go on strike any day, after common ground on a new collective agreement couldn’t be reached last week. “We really don’t know what to expect,” said credit union president Brent Tremblay when contacted Sunday. The credit union received notice last week that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vale’s Arrogance to Eastern Canadian Miners, Communities, Government Continues</title>
		<link>http://afi-international.com/bulletin/2011/01/17/vale%e2%80%99s-arrogance-to-eastern-canadian-miners-communities-government-continues/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jan 2011 21:51:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Union members of United Steelworkers (USW) Local 9508 in the Canadian province of Labrador / Newfoundland last week voted by 80% to accept the recommendations of a government Industrial Inquiry Commission to end an 18-month strike and return to work. But the conciliatory move won’t get the 124 copper and nickel miners any closer to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Commission Report Requires Immediate Government Action</title>
		<link>http://afi-international.com/bulletin/2011/01/11/commission-report-requires-immediate-government-action/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jan 2011 21:25:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Industrial Inquiry Commission on the Voisey&#8217;s Bay labour dispute is overwhelmingly damning of Brazilian mining giant Vale. If Vale does not accept the commission&#8217;s recommendations to settle the 17-month strike, the Newfoundland and Labrador government must act immediately in the best interests of our province&#8217;s working families, the United Steelworkers (USW) union says. &#8220;The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Workers at ECP still on the picket line after 864 days</title>
		<link>http://afi-international.com/bulletin/2011/01/04/workers-at-ecp-still-on-the-picket-line-after-864-days/</link>
		<comments>http://afi-international.com/bulletin/2011/01/04/workers-at-ecp-still-on-the-picket-line-after-864-days/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jan 2011 21:41:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nearly three years after going on strike, workers at the Engineered Coated Products manufacturing plant in Brantford remain on the picket line. Approximately 80 workers walked off the job on August 23, 2008 after the company demanded big wage cuts. At the time workers were earning about $21 per hour, and the average worker had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Community rallies around Local 1005</title>
		<link>http://afi-international.com/bulletin/2010/12/14/community-rallies-around-local-1005/</link>
		<comments>http://afi-international.com/bulletin/2010/12/14/community-rallies-around-local-1005/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Dec 2010 21:41:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[More than 40 businesses, restaurants and financial institutions are donating services, food and money for a Christmas for the families of locked-out steelworkers. The party will be Friday at the Hamilton Convention Centre in support of Local 1005 of the United Steelworkers, locked out by U.S. Steel since early November. It&#8217;s just one example of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Midway workers strike &#8212; won&#8217;t give further concessions</title>
		<link>http://afi-international.com/bulletin/2010/12/10/midway-workers-strike-wont-give-further-concessions/</link>
		<comments>http://afi-international.com/bulletin/2010/12/10/midway-workers-strike-wont-give-further-concessions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Dec 2010 21:43:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sixty-four production and maintenance employees walked off their jobs at Midway Lumber Mills in Thessalon, setting up pickets last Saturday at 8 a.m. Their contract expired at midnight Friday and despite four days of meetings facilitated by a conciliator from the Ontario Labour Relations Board, the union and company have been unable to resolve their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vale, union trade blame after talks collapse</title>
		<link>http://afi-international.com/bulletin/2010/10/21/vale-union-trade-blame-after-talks-collapse/</link>
		<comments>http://afi-international.com/bulletin/2010/10/21/vale-union-trade-blame-after-talks-collapse/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Oct 2010 14:13:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brazilian mining giant Vale and the United Steelworkers union are blaming each other for failing to halt a long-running strike at the Voisey&#8217;s Bay nickel mine in northern Labrador. Talks collapsed within an hour Wednesday in St. John&#8217;s, with Vale and the USW headed for an almost-certain industrial inquiry into why about 200 workers have [...]]]></description>
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