Tag: Alcoa
Big firms eye Alcoa site
By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN
SEVERAL multinational companies have expressed interest in Alcoa’s Point Henry site, Mayor Darryn Lyons has revealed.
Cr Lyons told a Geelong Business...
Anti-coal fight ramps up at Anglesea
By Noel Murphy
ANTI-coal activists are gearing up for a new anti-Alcoa rally at Anglesea this weekend as 80 workers await their fate in the...
Alcoa coal exports ‘fear’ at Anglesea
By NOEL MURPHY
COAL MINE opponents fear Alcoa’s Anglesea power plant could be expanded for export sales to Asia.
Surf Coast Air Action (SCAA) believes at...
Alcoa health concern for workers on eve of sackings
By NOEL MURPHY
RETRENCHED Alcoa staff need to guard against depression and other mental health issues in coming months, Beyondblue has warned ahead of 520...
Alcoa: Politics clash over worker support …
COMMENT: Noel Murphy
CANBERRA’S alleged failure to extend “one single dollar” to Alcoa workers facing the sack in two weeks has Geelong’s two federal MPs...
Prison jobs target Alcoa, Ford workers
By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN
RETRENCHED Ford and Alcoa workers are targeted for prison jobs as part of a wider recruitment campaign launched this week.
Barwon Prison...
Value of manufacturing job rescue funds in doubt
By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN
GEELONG is part of the third-most “economically vulnerable” region in the country, according to a new report.
And job-assistance and rescue packages...
Anti-Alcoa activists ‘misleading’, again …
By Noel Murphy
ANTI-ALCOA activists are under attack for allegedly misrepresenting claims by others about the Anglesea power station again.
The station's union representative, Ben Davis,...
Anglesea beach protesters demand Alcoa coal mine shut-down
THREE hundred protesters took to Anglesea Beach at the weekend demanding the town’s Alcoa coal-fired power station be shut down.
A human sign spelling out...
Alcoa, Ford cuts hammer Geelong charity support
By NOEL MURPHY
GEELONG’S needy could miss out on $500,000 a year with the departure of Alcoa, Ford and manufacturing workers to redundancies, warn the...
Professor warns on coal spies
By NOEL MURPHY
Industry and government spies could be monitoring activists opposed to Anglesea's coal-fuelled Alcoa power station, a university vice chancellor has warned.
Clive Hamilton,...
Union slams group for threatening Alcoa jobs
By NOEL MURPHY
ANTI-ALCOA protesters have been slammed for trying to undermine the livelihood of 83 workers facing the scrapheap at Anglesea's power station.
Australian Workers...
Standing in solidarity
Hundreds gathered together at the break of dawn on July 7 to stand with Wadawurrung Traditional Owners in collaboration with Barwon Coast for a...
