During its extraordinary meeting on November 27, 2007, Alcan-Rio Tinto's EWC was informed of the management's decision to sell the new entity's "machine-finished products" sector. Elected members ask for guaranties for employees in the "packaging" sector, for which the sale has already been announced (11.000 workers) and in the "machine-finished products" sector (also 11.000 workers) and are planning a mobilisation of workers at the local and international level for mid-January. (Ref. 070985)
For members of Rio Tinto Alcan’s European Works Council, the decision to sell “machine-finished products” “is both a consequence of the takeover bid on Alcan and, maybe, an answer to the possible buy out by BHP Billiton”. As far as elected members are concerned, “after Rio Tinto announced the sale of the packaging part, it is now going on with the dismantlement of the industrial whole created around an aluminium group” in order to “get the best aluminium electrolyse technology”.
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