Abitibi seeks concessions from union.
Abitibi-Consolidated Abitibi-Consolidated NYSE: ABY TSX: A is a Canadian pulp and paper company based in Montreal, Quebec. The network of 19 paper mills, 20 sawmills, 4 remanufacturing facilities and 2 engineered wood facilities, located in Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom says it will not sell one of its paper-making
machines at its Iroquois Iroquois
Any of the North American Indian tribes speaking a language of the Iroquoian family and living at the time of European contact in a continuous territory around Lakes Ontario, Huron, and Erie. Falls mill to the union representing its 450
workers. The workers' union The Workers' Union was a trade union in the United Kingdom. It merged with the Transport and General Workers' Union in 1929. See also
- List of trade unions
- Transport and General Workers' Union
- TGWU amalgamations
- the Communications, Energy and
Papeworkers Union of Canada - is proposing to buy and operate the
paper-making machine the company is considering shutting down. Abitibi
wants concessions from the union, including workforce reductions over
three years. It also wants the union to agree to a no-strike, no-lockout
agreement from 2004, when the industry-wide labour agreement expires,
until 2010. Abitibi wants to shut down one of its two machines in
Iroquois Falls to reduce its operating costs operating costs npl → gastos mpl operacionales . Mill workers were told to
either accept cost-cutting concessions or the mill's No. 1 paper
machine will be closed and more than 200 workers will lose their jobs.
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