Showing posts with label Paper. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Paper. Show all posts

Friday, 03 August 2007

Weyerhaeuser earnings tumble

(Reuters) - Excluding items, the company earned 48 cents a share in the latest quarter.




The company's shares have fallen 16.1 percent over the last three months, tracking a 12 percent drop in the Standard & Poor's Paper and Forest Products Index.


Read more at Reuters.com Business News

Thursday, 12 July 2007

Saskatchewan Refinery Workers Ratify Contract Agreement That Averted Stike

(Bloomberg) -- Workers at Federated Co-operatives
Ltd.'s oil refinery in Regina, Saskatchewan, ratified a new labor
agreement, averting a strike at the 100,000 barrel-a-day plant.

More than 90 percent of unionized workers voted for the
three-year contract, which will boost wages by 5 percent in the
first year and 4.5 percent in each of the next two years, the
Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada said in
an e-mailed statement yesterday.


Read more at Bloomberg Energy News

Friday, 06 July 2007

Workers at Oil Refinery in Regina, Saskatchewan May Go on Strike Tomorrow

(Bloomberg) -- Workers at Federated Co-operatives
Ltd.'s 100,000 barrel-a-day oil refinery in Regina, Saskatchewan,
may strike as soon as tomorrow, a union official said.

Workers voted in favor of a strike, which can legally begin
at 10 a.m. local time tomorrow, Kate McKinley, a spokeswoman for
the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada, said
in an interview today.


Read more at Bloomberg Energy News