ADVISORY/News From USWA: News Conference Today by World Aluminum Conference.Business Editors/City Desks/Assignment Desks ADVISORY...for Monday, Oct. 6 MONTREAL--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 6, 2003
MEDIA ADVISORY
DATE: 6 October 2003
TIME: 2 p.m. EDT
WHERE: Wyndham Hotel, Grand Salon B
1255 Rue Jeanne Mance, Montreal
The International Metalworkers Federation (IMF IMF See: International Monetary Fund IMF See International Monetary Fund (IMF). ), together with the United Steelworkers United Steelworkers (USW) historic labour union representing workers in steel, aluminum, and other metallurgical industries for much of the 20th century. In the U.S. of America, is holding a news conference today, following two days of meetings by about 150 representatives of unions from 20 aluminum producing and manufacturing countries. With recent consolidation within the industry, including the takeover by Canadian Canadian (kənā`dēən), river, 906 mi (1,458 km) long, rising in NE New Mexico. and flowing E across N Texas and central Oklahoma into the Arkansas River in E Oklahoma. Alcan Inc. of France's Pechiney, the World Aluminum Conference focused on collective bargaining collective bargaining, in labor relations, procedure whereby an employer or employers agree to discuss the conditions of work by bargaining with representatives of the employees, usually a labor union. strategies and collaboration among all unions organized within the world aluminum industry. The news conference will include statements by IMF General Secretary Marcello Malentacchi, United Steelworkers' International President Leo Gerard Leo W. Gerard (b. 1947) is a steelworker, Canadian and American labor leader. He was elected president of the United Steelworkers (USW) in 2001, becoming the second Canadian to head the union. He is also a vice president of the AFL-CIO. , Steelworkers' Canadian National Director Lawrence McBrearty, Quebec Director Michel Arsenault, and Michael Leahy, president of the IMF's Non-Ferrous Metals Department. |
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