On June 24, employees of El-Hajar-based ArcelorMittal Annaba, Algerian subsidiary of the world's largest steelmaker ArcelorMittal, have resumed work following a three-day strike which halted production at the steel plant.
The union chief at the plant said in a statement that the strike had been halted on the orders of the national executive of the General Union of Algerian Workers (UGTA), following a local court ruling this week saying the strike was illegal.
As SteelOrbis previously reported, in mid-January this year the employees of ArcelorMittal Annaba had gone strike for nine days. In a letter written by ArcelorMittal Annaba's general director Vincent Legouic to the employees of the plant on June 8, 2010, Mr. Legouic said that the nine-day strike in January caused a loss of $6 million and a production shortfall of 36,000 metric tons.
The plant's annual crude steel production capacity is about 2 million metric tons.