Abstract
A 1967 strike at a Quebec aluminum smelter resulted in the uncontrolled shutdown of aluminum-reduction cells in the smelter’s potrooms. In a subsequent legal action against the union which was before the courts for more than a decade, the company claimed that the shutdown had reduced the operating lives of the hundreds of cells in service at the time. This study describes the background and outcome of the court case and presents the data used by expert witnesses to argue for and against the company’s claim. Our analysts independently examine the data and arrive at their own conclusions.
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Kalbfleisch, J.D., Struthers, C.A., Thomas, D.C. (1994). Measuring the impact of an intervention on equipment lives. In: Gentleman, J.F., Whitmore, G.A. (eds) Case Studies in Data Analysis. Lecture Notes in Statistics, vol 94. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2688-8_1
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