Offsets group,UAE

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Aughinish Alumina
       
Nelius Kennedy HR
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Bauxite to Alumina
Bauxite Rock from West Africa and South America
Alumina
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AALs History

• Built 1978 - 83
• Initial Capacity 800,000 t/yr
• Current Capacity 1.6M plus t/y
• Initial Workforce 800
• Current Workforce 500
• Capital Investment
• Initial 1 billion
• Since Start-up 300 million
• Expectations 180 million

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Brief History

• Major change initiated by local Management
• In profit since 1993
• From organisational disaster to organisational
  flagship
• Still high cost producer
• Cannot compete with combinations
• Bauxite/ Energy / Smelter
• Reasons
• Raw material source
• Energy costs
• People costs
• Energy/Environmental taxes

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Current Status

• Flat organisation
• Management Team/ Facilitators/Work Teams
• External Environment is local responsibility
• Small management team run the business
• Teamwork
• Over 50 self managed teams
• Multi-union site
• SIPTU, TEEU, AEEU
• Partnership Approach

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Partnership Approach?

• High level of co-operation
• Deepening understanding of the business
• Gaining mutual trust and cooperation
• Change in employee status
• Benefits and conditions
• Partnership 2000 Chapter 9
• Taking stock of where we were
• ETS Collette Devlin
• Specifically designed programme
• Facilitate partnership
• Trained facilitators (key influencers)

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Today

• Working hard to make it work
• Initial site wide consultation
• Trained Partnership Group (approx. 24)
• Established a Partnership Forum
• To foster and encourage Partnership
• Currently 8 Members, moving to possibly 10
• Non-union (elected), Shop Stewards and Senior
  Management
• Not to do the work but to ensure its done
• Forum is gaining clarity/expertise

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What do we do at present?

• Consultation/Information
• Local Level Team Reviews, Project meetings, HSE
  activities, PPC, Team Days, Morning meetings,
  Information Meetings
• Department Level Project groups, Business
  meetings, BPI
• Plant Level Business updates, Team briefs,
  Information Notes, AAL News, Intranet,
  Partnership Forum, Key project groups e.g. BPI
• The above is outside of the normal Company Union
  meetings, informal or formal

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Consultation Directive

• Right to information/consultation on
• Recent and probable development
• Activities and economic situation
• Situation, structure and probable development of
  employment
• Any anticipatory measures envisaged, in
  particular where there is a threat to employment
• Decisions leading to substantial changes in work
  organisation
• or Contractual relations
• Initial negotiated documented agreement on how to
  manage it

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Can our Forum be the Official Vehicle?

• We have the structure
• Elected representatives from across the workforce
• Senior management on board
• Already discussing the business
• Wider sounding board of trained Partnership
  Facilitators
• History of co-operation / Partnership
• We could further adapt to suit the directive
• Forum to produce documented agreement
• Decision by workforce on same
• In a Partnership environment there should be no
  fear of this Directive

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