It All started on June 28th when the united steelworker's representatives left the negotiation table after three days of agonizing discussions. The right to vote was valid upon June 29th 2004, but the strike actually only started on July 19th, 2004. The Labrador City and Sept-Iles mines summed up to a grand total 1400, where 280 are united workers from Sept-Iles and close to a thousand work at the Labrador City mine. The final offer presented to the board of representatives, proposed a 2 $ and 2,40 $ wage increase for the Sept-Iles and Labrador City mines, following was a 3 year salary freeze, and finally was the implementation of the all new evaluation job performance. For reasons to be later discussed 95% of Sept-Iles and 99% of Labrador City's miners rejected the last offers made by the I.O.C.
Rio Tintos branch in Australia has had though moments implementing their new job evaluation performance. …
