Tag: Alcoa
In Brief
Waits ‘slashed’
Geelong Hospital’s waiting list for elective surgery has recorded a “healthy drop”, according to Victorian Health Minister David Davis.
He said the March quarter...
Ford and Alcoa top US market
By NOEL MURPHY
FORD has posted a loss of $267 million, its second worst, ahead of closing its North Geelong manufacturing operations and sacking 600...
Alcoa’s new $5m to train workers facing sack
ALCOA will cough up $10 million for job training scheme for workers to be sacked from its Geelong and Yennora, NSW, plants.
This will include...
Heath call over mine
By NOEL MURPHY
PROTECTION of Anglesea heath must be written into any sale of Alcoa’s coal mine, according to local conservationists.
Dorothy Hutton, of Anglesea, Airey’s...
Pot luck’s over
By NOEL MURPHY
ANOTHER ERA has ended for Geelong manufacturing with delivery of the last pot manufactured for Alcoa’s Point Henry smelter.
The final heavy steel...
Alcoa sale must protect heath: ANGAIR
PROTECTION demands for the Anglesea heath need to be written into any sale of Alcoa’s coal mine, according to conservation group ANGAIR.
Dorothy Hutton, long-time...
Stress before rebound
By Paul Millar
FORMER Victorian Premier Jeff Kennett believes that Geelong will rebound from massive job losses but families will endure some heavy heartache along...
Resilience we have but it’s options we really need
COMMENT: JOHN VAN KLAVEREN
IN between all the voices fronting the clustered microphones and cameras peddling their politically correct responses was a flash of reality...
Alcoa to cost us $600m
Spectre of Newcastle, Latrobe haunts Geelong
By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN
THE closure of Alcoa has dumped Geelong into the same economic basket as Newcastle when BHP...
80 jobs in doubt at Alcoa’s Anglesea power station
By NOEL MURPHY
Workers at Alcoa’s Anglesea power plant mine are furious the complex will close if it remains unsold by year’s end, according to...
Alcoa to shut Point Henry smelter and mills, 1000 jobs to go
by NOEL MURPHY
Alcoa will close its Point Henry aluminium smelter and two rolling mills, the company announced this morning.
Alcoa chairman and chief executive officer...
Ford to cut more Geelong jobs, work, as profits soar
FORD is set to cut 300 workers from its North Geelong and Broadmeadows plants from June, along with 13 down days between now and...
Campaign to bin blades
Parents have been urged to hand in their children's machetes and knives at amnesty bins as part of an Australian-first ban.
A total of 45...
