This video from Italy is called Sardinians workers of Alcoa on protest, September 10, 2012 Rome.
By Mike Jobson:
Alcoa workers travel to Rome to protest imminent plant closure
17 September 2012
On September 10, around 500 Alcoa workers from Sardinia traveled to Rome for a rally to protest the announced closure by the US multinational of its aluminum plant located in Portovesme. The particular gravity of the situation being faced by the Alcoa workers, and for that matter the entire region, was underscored by a series of recent angry protests on the Sardinian island, including the occupation of one tower by 3 workers on September 4, with a banner that read “pronto a tutto” (ready for anything). That occupation ended after three days due to the precarious health condition of one of the occupiers.
On September 11 Alcoa workers, entirely dissatisfied with the outcome of the discussions about their fate, occupied the ship Tirrenia for 2 hours, announcing that the fight is not over.
If the Alcoa plant is closed as announced, workers in Sardinia will be left with no possibility of jobs. The plant closure comes on top of a series of many other closures, including the Nuraxi Figus mine, in the same area (Sulcis), where 40 miners occupied the mine 373 meters (1,000 feet) underground for a week.
The closure of Alcoa would result in certain poverty and homelessness for about 1,000 families, including those of the satellite businesses who entirely depend on Alcoa.
Many workers expressed deep concern at the possibility of losing their homes because they won’t be able to pay their mortgages.
Alcoa wants to close the plant because it is planning to shift production to Saudi Arabia, where the cost of fuel and wages are much lower than in Italy.
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Alcoa paying $85 million cash to settle with Bahrain’s Alba
By Amena Bakr
DUBAI | Tue Oct 9, 2012 1:44pm EDT
(Reuters) – Alcoa Inc (AA.N) will pay $85 million in cash and enter long-term raw material supply contracts with Aluminum Bahrain ALBH.BH (Alba) to settle the Bahraini firm’s racketeering and fraud lawsuit against Alcoa, the companies said on Tuesday.
Alba had accused Alcoa in U.S. federal court of conspiring with a businessman to orchestrate bribes in Bahrain and to overcharge it for alumina, the crucial material used to make aluminum. Alba had sought damages in excess of $1 billion.
Alcoa admitted no liability in the settlement but still faces investigations by the U.S. Justice Department and the Securities Exchange Commission into the allegations.
Shares of Alcoa, which was due to issue its third-quarter financial results later on Tuesday, were three cents higher in early afternoon trading at $9.15 on the New York Stock Exchange.
Alba put the value of the contracts at $362 million. Alcoa declined to give a value, but said it expects them to be profitable.
“We are very happy with this settlement, this is great news for Alba and Bahrain,” Alba Chairman Mahmood Hashim al-Kooheji, who is also chief executive of Bahrain’s sovereign wealth fund Mumtalakat, said in an interview from Manama.
In a news release, Alcoa confirmed it had resolved the civil lawsuit with Alba that had been pending in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania since 2008.
Alcoa agreed to make the cash payment to Alba of $85 million in two installments. The settlement amount is within the range Alcoa previously estimated as its reasonably possible losses, it said.
It said the settlement with Alba “represents the best possible outcome and avoids the time and expense of complex litigation.”
Based on the settlement, Alcoa recorded a $40 million charge in the third quarter in addition to the $45 million charge it recorded in the second quarter.
Alcoa said it estimated an additional possible after-tax charge of $25-30 million to reflect an agreement between the shareholders of Alcoa World Alumina LLC regarding the cash costs of the settlement. Such a charge would be recognized in the event that a settlement is reached with the Department of Justice and the SEC on ongoing investigations.
Alba’s Kooheji said the alumina supplies will be delivered “as per our requirements … I would say it’s around six to seven years of supply.”
Alba, the fourth largest aluminum smelter in the world, is 69-percent owned by Mumtalakat. Saudi Arabia holds another 20 percent.
Alba’s total losses from the alleged fraud were estimated to be around $400 million. Aside from Tuesday’s settlement, Alba had managed to recover $31 million from European companies.
Kooheji said the settlement would be “positive” for Alba’s results and expected pending cases against other firms to be concluded following the Alcoa agreement.
Alba’s lawsuit against businessman Victor Dahdaleh continues in the United States.
Alcoa supplied the alumina from its Australian unit to a Singapore-based company controlled by Dahdaleh, a Canadian citizen who lives in Britain and who, according to the lawsuit, facilitated the bribes that caused Alba to overpay for the material, starting in 1993.
Dahdaleh, a former donor to Britain’s Labor party and former U.S. president Bill Clinton’s charitable activities, is facing corruption charges in Britain linked to the Bahrain case. A provisional trial is scheduled for next April.
Alba also filed a suit in December 2009 against the Japanese trading company Sojitz Corp (2768.T) in U.S. District Court in Houston in connection with bribery allegations linked to the sale price for finished aluminum sold by Alba.
Alba’s Kooheji said on Tuesday the Bahraini firm would maintain a “good” commercial relationship with Alcoa.
(Additional reporting by Steve James in New York; Writing by Amran Abocar; Editing by Tim Dobbyn)
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