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Mineweb.com - The world's premier mining and mining investment website Rio Tinto`s lockout of Alma workers looks set to drag on - FAST NEWS | Mineweb:

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"TORONTO (REUTERS)  - 
Rio Tinto's lockout of workers at its Alcan division's big Alma aluminum smelter in northern Quebec looks set to drag on, and the company said on Monday that no talks were scheduled.


"I wouldn't put a timeline to (talks) right now because nothing is scheduled," said Rio Tinto Alcan spokesman Bryan Tucker.
Rio Tinto Alcan locked unionized workers out at the 438,000 tonne smelter, in Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean, Quebec, on Jan. 1, after talks on a new contract failed. The old contract expired on Dec. 31 and the two sides had been talking since October.
Rio has been operating the plant with non-unionized workers at about one-third of capacity since early January.


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