In this netbull: paid 500 euros for more than a billion of profits, it seems very little but the company said, it is a subsidiary that manages the cash requirements for all entities of the group's production in Europe. Robert Rouzeeuw for FGTB, to protest against austerity: "We are obviously shocked when you see all that, but as we continue to make gifts to companies, we see the result today." David Camerini, CCS. "I think it's a scandal in relation to groups who register their prodigious profits make a pot of gold as well."
Etienne Botton, a spokesman for ArcelorMittal Liège: "The whole group of industrial companies pay each ArcelorMittal Belgium their taxes. For example, the various fees paid for activities Liege steel amounted to 113 million euros in 2008 and 92 million euros in 2009. The operations of ArcelorMittal accounts for 12 to 13,000 jobs in Belgium. It is true that in 2009, the year of crisis, ArcelorMittal Finance and Service Belgium has hardly pay taxes. For cons, the year before, she has paid 81 million euros ".
Fifty workers at ArcelorMittal Liège gathered Wednesday at the firm of JC Marcourt. David Camerini (CSC Metal): "We remain firm in our positions. It is necessary to sustain the steel business in Liege, that all workers are engaged in temporary structural CDI. Workers' representatives also express concern about the problem of maintenance tools and outsourcing more and more frequent. According to JC Marcourt, the negotiating parties must be able to find "the criteria for compliance and security competitiveness. It is obvious that the situation in the steel industry in Europe remains extremely difficult and that it must reflect the conditions and prospects in the medium and long term. We must also consider the efforts by workers to revive certain tools or increase the performance of other tools. We must now find tracks that can fit into an agreement and does not endanger the sustainability of the tool.
Since Wednesday, some 600 workers at ArcelorMittal Châtelet decided to sit back following the refusal of management to effect an upgrading. The staff says he's determined and announced a move to the finish.
workers Thy Marcinelle (Riva Group) have initiated a strike in a common front on 14 September. Steelworkers protest against exclusion unreasonable and unacceptable to a worker, moreover union representative. After a period of inactivity, the steward had been declared fit to work. Following an accident at work several years ago, he suffered a slight medical restriction. The management refused to reinstate him. This position places the unilateral delegate in the intolerable position of workers with jobs, without jobs or income. The "health assessment form" written by Adhesia September 3 specifies that the person is fit to perform the activity that is his job. The Steelworkers argue that while management had been a doubt about it, she could swap the delegate with another worker. Indeed, the post of storekeeper and a post of rocker are occupied for over a year by temporary.
November 11 it will be two years Carsid is stationary. A La Louviere, of threats to employment, since the thread no longer interested in the Russians. They say Duferco but in reality it is the group Sif (Steel Invest & Finance), the result of a joint venture made in 2006 between the Gozzi family (owner of Duferco) and steelmaker Russian Novolipetsk (NLMK) said Camillo D'Aloisio (SCC). On 8 September, the Group announced its intention Duferco to withdraw the steel, thus Sif. The Russians appear interested in taking. But agreement on the option and sale between two parties for the acquisition of all assets of SIF will expire on December 18. And a statement of transfer must be made three months ago. We're Here! 1,500 people gathered at Namur to express concern about the future of factories Duferco. Marcourt JC: "We will set a record economic supported to highlight the strengths of the steel and the Walloon défendre.Nous we are committed to have this contact in the six weeks and then return to the unions. "
German employees of the steel industry will receive a wage increase 3.6%. The agency will also be paid at the same level as other employees for the same work.
Pinco, a new structure entirely independent of the ArcelorMittal Group, will include six major production sites "stainless" two in Belgium: Genk and Chatelet. The group underwent
Beltrame crisis hit. High unemployment therefore affects the 120 workers Plant Charleroi (Ruau). By September, the scheme of work is likely to move to a single position. Different tracks are studied: one of them is the upgrading to the plant in Valenciennes. Another is early retirement.
ArcelorMittal fifty workers at the firm Marcourt
rtlinfo.be September 29 Fifty workers at ArcelorMittal Liège gathered Wednesday at the office of the Walloon Minister of Economy, Jean-Claude Marcourt, to Namur. A delegation was received by the Minister's representatives. She expressed concern about the stalled negotiations with management and lack of investment in the tool Liege.
Asked in Brussels on the sidelines of a meeting of the Walloon government, the minister said he understood the concern of workers. He said the negotiating parties must be able to find "the criteria to guarantee compliance and competitiveness." "It is obvious that the situation in the steel industry in Europe remains extremely difficult and must take into account the conditions and prospects in the medium and long term. We must also consider the efforts made by workers to revive some tools or increase the performance of other tools. We must now find tracks that can fit into an agreement and does not endanger the sustainability of the tool, "said Mr. Marcourt. (MDP) office in Malaysia
Arcelor-Mittal CORK
dh 29 / 09/2010 Fifty representatives of workers ArcelorMittal Liège, will meet this Wednesday, the Minister for Marcourt awareness to the issue of negotiations between unions and management which are currently stalled, the unions have announced. The negotiations include the Hiring Plan (via the transformation of CSD and temporary CDI) and improvements in terms of working conditions. They take place difficult and one-day strike was held September 16 in protest. Negotiations were then resumed, but were again blocked since Sept. 21. "We remain firm in our positions. It is necessary to sustain the steel business in Liege, that all workers are engaged in temporary structural Commission. Currently, management does not seem to accept that, "said David Camerini (CSC Metal). Workers' representatives, meeting in a common front, decided to draw the attention of the Minister on the situation Marcourt and blocking. They also want to express their concern about the problem of maintenance tools and outsourcing more and more frequent missions.
Germany: wage increases of 3.6% in steel
Under the agreement reached between employers and trade union IG Metall, the German steel workers will receive a wage increase of 3.6%. This agreement shall come into force Friday and run until October 31, 2011. In addition, effective January 1, 2011, interim will also be paid at the same level as other employees for the same work (6com 09/30/2010).
Strike at ArcelorMittal finish at Chatelet
Since Wednesday, the 600 workers at ArcelorMittal Châtelet decided to sit back following the refusal of management to effect an upgrading. The staff and announced his determination to finish a movement (RTBF30/09/2010)
Management expressed its "astonishment "
rtlinfo.be September 28, 20:05
"ArcelorMittal management is surprised Châtelet the current social movement and the demand for general wage increase, while market conditions remain difficult. This action is not constructive for either the company or its employees. " A strike notice had was tabled last Thursday and a work stoppage was observed the next day.
ArcelorMittal: 500 € Tax!
Ph. Law. 29/09/2010 llb is a famous hare has lifted the weekly Solidarity Labour Party (PTB), thanks to the foresight of Mark Van Hees, tax advisor of the party and who works at the Ministry of Finance . And once again, the find demonstrates the perverse and irrational side of the mechanism intended to enhance the attractiveness of Belgium and attract investors. According to various documents returned by "ArcelorMittal Finance and Service Belgium (company number: 0429.496.204), the financial subsidiary of global giant in the steel industry has paid in respect of tax, an exact amount of 496 € in 2009. But at the same time It recorded a profit of over 1 billion euros (€ 1,288,708,054 exactly). A little calculation shows that the company was hit with a tax rate of 0.00038%, or 90,000 times less than the rate Nominal corporate tax (33.99%). If she could benefit from a tax rate that low, is that "ArcelorMittal Finance and Service Belgium" used the mechanism of notional interest. This allows companies to deduct an amount equal to the notional return on equity to reduce the gap between the cost of debt and the equity. Indeed, when a company borrows money, it can deduct, as business expenses, the interest they pay to the lender. When she turned to venture capital and she pays it, it can not deduct dividends. These are taxed at the corporate tax. For Raoul
Hedebouw, spokesman for the PTB, the tax benefit reaped by ArcelorMittal Finance in Belgium corresponds to almost 500 million raised for the refinancing of Brussels in the pre-discussions at the federal government. "It is urgent to remove the notional interest deduction, the gift tax that benefits several billion in the first place, banks and multinational coordination centers. The measure also does not favor any use. In Belgium, the social report 2009 ArcelorMittal Belgium commented that the company has even removed 854 jobs in 2009, representing 11% of the workforce, "he criticizes. For
Etienne Botton, spokesman for ArcelorMittal Cork, the group simply used a measure available to many businesses. "Rates are set by the federal government and must not forget that we paid 81 million tax in 2008," he replies.
ArcelorMittal pays 500 euros tax
ls September 29, 2010 ArcelorMittal Finance and Service Belgium has paid in 2009 for an exact amount of tax of 496 euros, according to La Libre Belgique, based on revelations of the weekly PWB 'Solidarity'. Winning is important ArceloMittal Finance which has significant equity. " In 2009, the deduction thus reaches 1,288,806,525 euros, which seems to be the largest ever amount deducted since 2006, "says Marco Van Hees. According to the spokesman ArceloMittal in Liège, the group simply used a measure available to businesses. "We must not forget that we paid 81 million euros in taxes in 2008," he said.
ArcelorMittal notional interest to avoid tax?
rtbf.be 30.09.10 paid 500 euros for more than a billion of profits, it seems very little, but the company said, it is a company ArcelorMittal. Its subsidiary that manages the cash requirements for all entities of the group's production in Europe. Etienne Botton, ArcelorMittal spokesman: "The system of notional interest deduction allows an increase in equity, just as it would for example claim an investment, so it's a system that any company established Belgium may use either a small or a large international group. " For unions, the perception is very different. This is unacceptable and a gift that money should go into state coffers. Robert Rouzeeuw for FGTB, to protest against austerity "We are obviously shocked when you see all that, but as we continue to make gifts to companies, we see the result today." David Camerini, CCS. "I think it's a scandal in relation to groups who register their prodigious profits make a pot of gold as well." The group says it ArcelorMittal that the mechanism allows the deduction increases capital and business investment and it is legal. The law on notional interest is certainly not foreign to the facility in Belgium of the fund management subsidiary of ArcelorMittal. "For example, the different taxes paid for steel activities Liege totaled 113 million euros in 2008 and 92 million euros in 2009. ArcelorMittal activities account for 12 to 13 000 jobs in Belgium, "said Etienne Botton yet, spokesman for ArcelorMittal Liège. Belga F. and Braibant
Taxes ArcelorMittal group of industrial companies pay their taxes
rtlinfo.be Wed September 29 All industrial companies in Belgium ArcelorMittal each pay their taxes, said in a statement Wednesday night ArcelorMittal Liège, in response to an article in the PTB 'Solidarity' that the financial subsidiary ArcelorMittal Finance and Service, was paid in 2009 for 496 euros in taxes than through the mechanism of notional interest. "For example, the various fees paid for activities Liege steel amounted to 113 million euros in 2008 and 92 million euros in 2009. ArcelorMittal activities accounts for 12 to 13,000 jobs in Belgium" Etienne Botton says, spokesman for ArcelorMittal Liège. Mr Botton also confirms that the amount of taxes paid in 2009 due to the system of notional interest. She uses it, "like any other Belgian company can do," says he. "It is true that in 2009, the year of crisis, this company has paid virtually no taxes. As against the previous year, it has paid 81 million euros," he continued. (CDM)
Steelworkers meet the Walloon government
ls September 30, 2010 The Walloon government has committed to establish within six weeks of contact "deep" with the group Duferco, during a meeting with a delegation Association in conjunction with the event Steelworkers Walloon, which brought together 1,500 people in Namur on Thursday morning. Unions have described the meeting "positive at any point of view." Ministers Jean-Claude Marcourt (PS), Jean-Marc Nollet (Ecolo) and André Antoine (CDH) attended the interview. "We will define a document to substantiate economic highlight the strengths of the Walloon steel industry and defense," said the Walloon Minister of Economy Jean-Claude Marcourt the Belga agency.
"We are committed to have this contact in the six weeks and then return to the unions. "Some 1,500 people gathered at Namur to express concern about the future of factories Duferco. The site Carsid in Marcinelle, is particular to stop for almost two years due to poor economic conditions in the area. The workers are demanding clear answers about their future.
The event took place in a tense but no incidents were deplored.
About the strike in the steel industry.
(mail JC) This Thursday, September 30 is held a day of strikes in the steel Hainaut (Manage Duferco La Louviere, Marchienne, Clabecq). Carlam (Carinox) and Fafer are secured. They do not strike but active participants in the demonstration of 30 people and cover who go there. First, workers and their representatives ask the maintenance of economic activity on the sites Duferco in Belgium. Two years of unemployment for workers in economic Marchienne. A significant reduction of activity for Duferco Manage (formerly Bombardier) and Duferco-Ittre. These measures concern the workers and weary.
The redemption of Duferco by Novolipetsk is not a good deal because Russian businessmen are not interested in maintaining a business. They are only interested in the reputation of the Belgian steel industry so they can use to sell their own slab of poor quality and low prices. As of December 31 Duferco leaves the rest of its shares to Russian capitalists. Duferco does not intend to invest in a company that will drop soon.
the side of the Walloon government, business licenses and legislation on CO2 quotas may cause problems for the resumption of the blast furnace Marchienne.
Workers have two clear targets for their control movement: the Walloon government and the employers through the management Duferco and Russian businessmen. They want a $ 450 million for Marchienne. Half by employers and half for the Walloon government. Money is a delicate issue because the other companies also want to be subsidized by the Walloon Region.
solidarity from the rest of the sector comes from a more general concern about the situation of the steel industry worldwide. Steelmakers are not at all out of the crisis. Arcelor Mittal is preparing a plan of economy of scale.
The Walloon government may well subsidize a generator of jobs. That said, we must take into account what the bosses were won with these companies and show them the bill. The Walloon government has turned against them to recover the subsidies that will give the steel industry.
The steel industry remains a core sector of the economy. It should also castigate the indecision of the actors in this drama: the government and employers. They played the strategy of letting workers rotting vegetate for two years. Technically and humanly recovery is thus made very difficult.
situation ArcelorMittal Liège
(mail a Chertalien 23/09) A year ago, more or less, the liquid phase ArcelorMittal Liège restarted. Management and unions have signed agreements that covered, among other things, the number of workers in the company. These agreements provided that the different partners should get back to the table after a few months to assess the situation. So far, the Branch does not want to do. Working structures put in place structures are lean, very flexible "reduced costs".
Specifically, the number of workers has been halved compared to the situation before stopping.
In addition, this staff must be strictly adapted to walking tools.
Subcontracting has been extended to the maximum.
For example, the hot mill Chertal (TLB), the workforce has increased from 300 to 153 managers, supervisors, management and workers understood.
Employees must necessarily remain at home on Friday, even if the tool produces.
workers to resume their days off when the mill is not running, something that rarely happens. Workers, exhausted, then the days of accumulating Recycling unable to make, so the numbers are reduced ....
Regarding working hours, instead of the scheme in "continuous fire" (1 week 6 / 14, 14/22 1 week, 1 week night and one week off), the TLB is past by the "3 breaks" (6 days 6 / 14, 14/22 6 days, 5 nights ... and repeat), with one day off on Sunday. Sometimes that management also asked for volunteers for these Sundays.
And there, the following explains, at least 30% of employment contracts are fixed term and temporary jobs.
These workers were there BEFORE the shutdown in 2009. They were contacted again to resume.
Their salaries have increased from + / - 1800 € to 1400 € net income per month.
Loss of revenue 23% +! It is normal to find volunteers (but less) to work on Sundays.
is the picture drawn quickly .... CURRENTLY
common front, unions (CNE / SETCA / MWB / CSC) raised key demands, namely
commitment of ALL structural CSD where the Department wants to retain 30% absolutely temporary contracts.
journal enrollment growth and wages.
End the requirement that employees not work on Fridays.
No division in the business sectors of "core" and "non-core", which would lead eventually to more outsourcing.
Workers and their union led a strike Thursday, September 16. Strike action at 100%.
Following this strike, the various interlocutors met again but management does not move on, or rather wants to make a bundle of different claims and negotiate while block.
The unions want, meanwhile, negotiate everything separately.
The situation is in deadlock.
this morning, the unions, by mutual agreement, left the company following the board of the negative attitude of the management.
No further action is currently scheduled formally.
The unions hope to recover at the table with management by the end of the month, even if they think the situation will become radicalized at the end of this period.
Steelworkers Duferco fear a butchering tools Walloon
ls 1 / 10 What can Walloon government? The question remains open after the event than 1,500 steelworkers Duferco Group on Thursday morning in Namur, followed by a meeting between their representatives and several regional ministers. "We are partly reassured because our policies also believe it is imperative to keep all our tools business, said Jean-Marie Hoslet for the CSC-Metal. For the rest, the uncertainty is total ... "But the issue is the future of the 3,500 employees of the Swiss-Italian group, which is currently negotiating the sale of its tools Charleroi (Carsid), La Louviere and the Russians Clabecq of Novolipetsk Steel (NMLK): a giant 60,000 people which is associated Duferco since late 2006 as part of a joint venture called Steel Invest & Finance (SIF). Amounts are in keeping: Duferco could reap hundreds of millions of possible withdrawal of the steel.
Should remain sole master on board, NMLK itself could stop the production of blast furnace Carsid - he already has five tools comparable to Russia - but also that of long products in La Louviere. The Russians would be interested in Wallonia as tools offering high value led to slab it is important, cost of home: the rolling of plates for automobiles, La Louviere, and the special plates large, to Clabecq ... trade union side, it does not mean of course that way. "If this scenario were to materialize, it would destroy a thousand jobs Carsid and 500 workstations in La Louviere, warns Manuel Morais (SETC-FGTB). And it would weaken any existing chain, in which La Louviere and Clabecq are normally fed into slabs by the blast furnace of Charleroi. "Verily this sector is already, there is a change of ownership or not, greatly weakened by the crisis. The blast furnace Carsid is stopped for two years and its 1,100 employees, economic unemployment, are still waiting for a restart. Now, to revive the blast furnace, it should not only that the situation is recovering strongly, but also a conveniently large investment is made upfront for construction of a new coking plant - the former, too polluting, having been dismantled . "The confusion is complete, because in addition to those economic uncertainties relating to changes in ownership, says Jean-Claude Marcourt, Walloon Minister of Economy. It is therefore essential that the actors actually clarify their intentions.
We'll meet with them to clarify that the Walloon government is ready to get involved. But our potential support may not lead to a dismemberment of the current tools. "■ JULY BENEDICT
Duferco Sif: breaking the silence
info csc 24 / 9" The workers have waited far too long!
November 11 it will be two years Carsid (unit production of slabs) is stationary. While across Europe the blast furnace restart, nothing happens here. A La Louviere, threats of on employment, since the thread no longer interested in the Russians. Nobody knows the exact intentions of the employers group. And the politicians are silent in all languages! We want answers to questions that people can legitimately ask, "said Camillo D'Aloisio, secretary of trade union ACV-CSCMetea.
attempt to break the silence and finally get the answers they expect, group workers Duferco manifest in Namur and they resonate with the Walloon government.
"They say Duferco but in reality it is the group Sif (Steel Invest & Finance), the result of a joint venture conducted in 2006 between the Gozzi family (owner of Duferco) and the Russian steelmaker Novolipetsk (NLMK), Camillo D'Aloisio said. On 8 September, the Group announced its intention Duferco to withdraw the steel, thus Sif. The Russians appear interested in taking. But agreement on the option and sale between two parties for the acquisition of all assets of SIF will expire on December 18. And a statement of transfer must be made three months ago. We're Here! Yet we are not aware of anything, we were told nothing. "
Workers and their representatives are concerned, therefore, the future of the group and steel in Hainaut.
"It's an area we are talking business here. And 3,500 people are involved, "said Camillo D'Aloisio which includes the questions raised recently by Jean-Marie Hoslet, provincial secretary of ACV-CSC-Metea:" Will you keep the upstream and downstream? Will there still one boss? Will you split the different trades? ". Can not get any response.
Faced with this uncertainty, anxiety and nervousness of workers are increasing. Monday, September 20, they met in general assembly at Duferco La Louviere. They demand to know the intentions of the Russians NLMK Hennuyères for each business group. They recall that, regardless of the industrial operator that takes the hand, workers and their organizations require the maintenance and consolidation of the industrial scope and compliance with previous commitments. Concerns are particularly acute for Carsid: "The furnace is turned off for nearly two years and the decision to relight is constantly postponed. NLMK increases capacity in Russia and the sites are in competition. We said that our furnace was damaged by the use of poor quality coke Russian who has been delivered ... We are also told that the cost is too high. But all this is because Carsid no more coke. That of Marchienne was closed, "said Camille d'Aloisio. We absolutely want to see revitalize the perimeter. Thousand workers are waiting with the feeling of being useless ... And every direct job involves three indirect jobs also involved ... We want to know when the blast furnace will be restarted. "
On the site of La Louviere, anxiety rumbles too. Indeed, the "long" (steel wire) no longer seems to interest the Russians that focus on the sheets (the coils). This poses a threat to employment of 500 workers.
"The situation is extremely worrying. Employers say nothing. Policymakers also are silent as to the city of Charleroi to the Walloon Region, sorry Camillo D'Aloisio. Yet there is about the future of the city and region. If you want to restart the blast furnace shutdown for a long time, we will have such permits for CO2. This prepares ... We want to take political positions. What will be the future of the workers involved? And what are we leaving our children? An urban blight?
PS, CDH and Ecolo are switching at the Region. They must decide on the future. "
Exclusion improper and unacceptable to a worker
info csc 24 / 9 Unusually, the workers of the company Thy Marcinelle (Riva Group), Charleroi, triggered a wave of strikes in a common front on 14 September. Steelworkers protest against the unfair exclusion of an employee and unacceptable, moreover union representative. This decision violates all employers rules of social dialogue. It is even more incomprehensible that there was never any conflict within the company where social relations were healthy. Aged 41, joined Ferrini Saverio Riva in 1988 and there is always "busy" to date. He participated in the social elections in 2000, 2004 and 2008 and is also the right hand of the President of the CSC in Riva. After a period of inactivity, the steward appeared in the company. He had a prior medical examination and was declared fit to work. Following an accident
work occurred some years ago, he suffered a slight medical restrictions but annual medical examinations passed since then have always concluded with a work permit.
But this time, management refused to reinstate him. This position places the unilateral delegate in the intolerable position of workers with jobs, without jobs or income. "If Saverio is not reinstated now, management will never take it back because for her, he is a troublemaker around in circles, protest his colleagues. It is all fighting to defend his colleagues and is always willing to represent them to enforce their rights. "brandish the workers' health assessment form" written by Adhesia September 3 last, he said that the delegate is able to perform the activity that is his job . The Steelworkers argue that while management had been a doubt about it, she could swap the delegate with another worker. Indeed, the post of storekeeper and a post of rocker are occupied for over a year by temporary. Many delegates expressed their solidarity on the picket line on 17 September. Organizations unions want to believe in a quick in-house and prevent the conflict from taking other dimensions.
ArcelorMittal steel pole splitting the growth of French employees to apply for transfer
L a division of ArcelorMittal steel industry workers is causing increasing concern of the French site Isbergues. According to the Workers Force union (FOR), the creation of this new entity will close the sheet metal classic by 2012. The possible weakening of the site has prompted dozens of employees to apply for transfer to Dunkirk. For the unions, "there is a difference between optimism officers and employees' perceptions of who no longer believe in rhetoric. "(La Voix du Nord 10.01.2010)
ArcelorMittal Inox branch traded next year?
27/09/10 AOF Trading in the steel industry ArcelorMittal could take place in early 2011 according to a spokesman for the group. This branch should become a new company, tentatively called "Spinco." It would cover 10,000 employees. According to Oddo, the enterprise value would range between 3.4 and 4.2 billion dollars.
69 billionaires and 836 million very poor in India
www.la-croix.com 30/09/2010 India has 17 new billionaires in 2010, bringing the total to a record 69, as ranked by Forbes magazine published Thursday, September 30. Mukesh Ambani, chairman of India's largest private group, Reliance Industries, is the third consecutive year the richest man in the country, with a fortune of $ 27 billion (20 billion euros). It is closely followed by Lakshmi Mittal, CEO of the world leader Arcelor Mittal Steel with 26 billion dollars. In response, some 836 million Indians - over 1.2 billion people - live on less than 20 rupees (33 cents) per day. And statistics on health, infant mortality and income are worse than in parts of sub-Saharan Africa. Charitable organizations are alarmed by the increasing social inequality.
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