Brazilian President Takes Aim at Vale SA

THE SUDBURY STAR
4 August 2009
By Denis St. Pierre

The Brazilian president’s reported denunciation of huge job and investment cuts by mining giant Vale SA is being praised by the United Steelworkers union, which also decries the absence of such a position by the Canadian and Ontario governments.

“Good on Lula, bad on the Canadian government,” Steelworkers District 6 director Wayne Fraser said Monday in response to news reports about Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.

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