Union Leadership Positions Nominations and Vote
Submit your nomination by Oct 19, 2012 no later than 5pm. Vote will be held on October 23rd and 24th, 2012. |
First Nickel Newsletter - June 2011
Today we called back 3 cage tenders by senority of the qualified ones that had modules as the ones on site have will be changing jobs as work progresses and the replacements are on site. |
Lockerby Mine Update - January 13, 2011
Texas MacDonald's comments as well as Gerry Bolideau's statement |
First Nickel Newsletter - November 2010
Much has happened this year with the negotiations and ratification of the new contract. |
Lockerby Mine Update - September 30th, 2010
First Nickel has secured early financing through a $5M loan from Resource Capital Funds which is being utilized to continue with the Care and Maintenance program, ... |
Press Release - First Nickel Contract Ratified
A ratification meeting was held July 29, 2010 and the employees, who have been off work since October 2008 when the mine closed, voted in favor of the new collective agreement by 96%. |
Press Release - First Nickel Tentative Contract Agreement Reached!
After three days of continuous bargaining, a new tentative agreement was reached on Friday, July 23rd, 2010. |
Update - June 13th, 2010
Updates for the month of June. |
Out of Date Phone Numbers - April 29th, 2010
Last week when calling some of the employees, the Company and Union had a problem with some of the phone numbers as they were out of date. |
Update for Negotiations - April 19th, 2010
We had a successful week of bargaining with the Company this past week. There is much more to be done yet but there is some good news. |
Newsletter - March 2010
The Tentative dates to resume negotiations are April 13-16th. |
Update for Negotiations - March 1st, 2010
Last week the company asked to resume negotiations. The tentative dates that we have so far are all in April. |
Bargaining Update - Jan 8th, 2009
The negotiating team met with the Company again on the 6th of January. The Company would not move on any of the concessions they were asking for in the contract language so the negotiations are on hold until they get closer to finding some funding to reopen the mine back up. |
Newsletter - June 2009
I had wanted to send out a note to inform you that the Company had taken Union Dues one time too many off our last pay check and to inform all of the upcoming election and what work-related news I had to date. This letter unfortunately did not get out with the checks that were sent. |
Newsletter - May 2009
I’m sending out this note first to inform you that the Company had taken off Union Dues one time too many off our last pay check. While I was checking to make sure that FNI had remitted all the money that was owed to the Union I noticed this and it took awhile to sort it out and get you a check for what was owing to you. |
