Vale Inco SA striking miners from Canada plan to demonstrate in New York and London as they seek an improved offer from the company on pay and conditions.
Workers scheduled a protest in front of the New York Stock Exchange in London’s financial district in November.
About 3,300 miners went on strike at Vale’s Sudbury nickel mine in Canada July 13, after USW members rejected a proposed labour contract.
They were joined by workers from Vale’s Voisey’s Bay mine in Newfoundland on Aug. 1. Vale said it restarted limited copper and nickel production at Sudbury Oct. 1 using 1,200 Sudbury workers who didn’t join the strike.
The Steelworkers union “wants the company to return to the bargaining table in Canada and calls on its top management to rekindle negotiations,” according to the statement.
“An impasse” continues with no further negotiations planned between the company and the union, Cory McPhee, a Vale spokesman in Canada, said today by telephone from Toronto. “We are ready to go back to the table if the union is ready to accept change and have meaningful discussion on pensions, bonuses and other issues of importance.”
Saba Mozakka, an officer at the Workers Uniting union coalition in London, also said miners will organize a series of demonstrations in the city in November to draw attention to the dispute. Workers Uniting is a partnership between the U.K.’s Unite union and the Steelworkers.
A Vale spokeswoman in Rio de Janeiro, who asked not to be named because of company policy, said she was unaware of protests. Vale postponed events in New York and London because of its executives’ schedules, she said.
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