Abitibi urges industry to cut output or suffer lower newsprint prices

Article Abstract:

Montreal, Quebec-based Abitibi-Consolidated Inc. encourages its rival companies in the newsprint-paper business to reduce their production levels. Abitibi-Consolidated, which is close to reviving milling operations at its ten labor-strike-stricken facilities, warned that the newsprint industry faces the threat of lower product prices as a result of a potential supply glut of newsprint products. Abitibi-Consolidated is set to resume its output levels prior to the strike once its labor dispute with the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada is settled.

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Encourages rival cos in the newsprint-paper business to reduce their prodn levels to prevent lower prod prices

Production management

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Abitibi, workers reach tentative deal

Article Abstract:

Abitibi-Consolidated Inc. of Montreal, Quebec, the biggest newsprint maker in the world, is on the verge of forging a new labor agreement with its striking workers. The company, which has been forced to close 10 of its mills in Ontario, Newfoundland and Quebec because of the five-month-old strike, is said to have reached a tentative six-year deal with Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada (CEP), the group representing the firm's 4,000 striking workers. Abitibi's workers are set to vote on the new agreement on Nov. 18, 1998.

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Is on the verge of forging a new labor agreement with its striking workers

Labor force information

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620 Abitibi workers vote to end strike

Article Abstract:

Abitibi-Consolidated Inc.'s workers at a manufacturing plant in Trois-Rivieres, Quebec, have returned to their jobs, ending a strike which started in June 15, 1998. The move comes after 620 of the workers at the Wayagamack mill in the region voted overwhelmingly to end their strike. The firm welcomed the return of the workers and claimed that the strike has greatly dampened its financial position. The protest actions initiated by the various unions at ten other Abitibi mills throughout Canada, however, have yet to be resolved.

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Its workers at a manufacturing plant in Trois-Rivieres, Quebec, return to their jobs

Personnel administration, Paper & Allied Products, Paper Manufacturing, Paper industry

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