http://toronto.mediacoop.ca/old/taxonomy/term/2214/0 en http://toronto.mediacoop.ca/story/one-day-longer-vale-inco-strike-comes-close/4273 <div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-image"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <img src="http://toronto.mediacoop.ca/sites/mediacoop.ca/files2/mc/imagecache/page450/vale_image_5_0.jpg" alt="" title="" width="450" height="338" class="imagecache imagecache-page450 imagecache-default imagecache-page450_default"/> </div> </div> </div> <p>On July 7 and 8, 2010, striking members of United Steel Workers Local 6500 in Sudbury, Ontario, voted 75% in favour of a contract that ended a bitter strike against transnational mining giant Vale Inco. The 3300 strikers had been on the picket lines for almost one year (along with members of Local 6200 in Port Colborne, Ontario, who voted in favour by a similar margin).</p> <p><a href="http://toronto.mediacoop.ca/story/one-day-longer-vale-inco-strike-comes-close/4273" target="_blank">read more</a></p> http://toronto.mediacoop.ca/story/one-day-longer-vale-inco-strike-comes-close/4273#comments Scott Neigh - Linchpin.ca Labour mining strike sudbury Dominion Stories Fri, 23 Jul 2010 03:10:16 +0000 Linchpin 4273 at http://toronto.mediacoop.ca