CONAKRY, April 1 (Reuters) - A workers' strike at RUSAL's Friguia alumina refinery in Guinea has brought production there to a standstill, two company sources in the West African country said on Thursday.
The plant, Guinea's largest industrial project, has capacity to produce around 640,000 tonnes of alumina per year, which the Russian firm then ships around the world to be refined into aluminium.
Employees are demanding a 50 percent pay rise, a company executive and a worker told Reuters.
"Production has stopped. Only a minimum service is being maintained to prevent a complete shutdown of the plant,” the executive said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
RUSAL was not immediately available for comment at its Moscow headquarters.
Protests at mining operations in Guinea, the world's biggest bauxite exporter, are common, and generally last no more than a few days. The most recent at Friguia was in February, when angry youths blocked access to the plant for several hours, but production was unaffected.
(Reporting by Saliou Samb; Editing by Daniel Magnowski)
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