RusAl Strike in Guinea

April 2, 2010

A strike at United Company RusAl’s Friguia alumina refinery in Guinea has brought production there to a standstill, two company sources in the West African country said Thursday.

The plant, Guinea’s largest industrial project, has capacity to produce about 640,000 metric tons of alumina per year, which the Russian firm then ships around the world to be refined into aluminum.

Employees are demanding a 50 percent pay rise, a company executive and a worker told Reuters.

(Reuters)

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