All three picketed PotashCorp plants offline

11 August 2008 23:14  [Source: ICIS news]

HOUSTON (ICIS news)--Production has stopped at three facilities owned by Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan (PotashCorp) where workers are striking in a labour dispute, a company spokesperson said on Monday.

All three facilities are in Canada’s Saskatchewan province.

The plants in Allan and Cory are offline directly because of the labour dispute, while a smaller facility in Patience Lake is not scheduled to come online until October, company spokesperson Tom Pasztor said.

A maintenance shutdown scheduled to end today at the company’s 2m tonne/year plant in Allan is taking longer than expected because of the strike, Pasztor said. Production has also stopped at an 800,000 tonne/year plant in Cory, which went down on 13 July for maintenance and was scheduled to come back online 26 July.

About 500 members of the United Steelworkers union began picketing last Thursday evening outside Allan, Cory and a 300,000 tonne/year plant in Patience Lake.

Pasztor said the facility in Patience Lake is scheduled to resume production on 4 October.

The company has no meetings currently scheduled with the United Steelworkers union, Pasztor said.

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By: David Rosen
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