Alumina Workers Ratify Labor Pact
Alumina Partners of Jamaica said Friday members of the National Workers Union ratified a new 25-month labor agreement.
The company said it will immediately restart operations at its plant, which was shut down Jan. 20 as a result of a strike.
The contract covers all of Alumina Partners’ roughly 1,500 hourly employees and contractors. The new agreement, replacing one that expired in March 1994, is retroactive to April 1994 and extends through April 30, 1996, the company said.
Alumina Partners is 65 percent owned by Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Corp., a unit of Kaiser Aluminum Corp.