Vale has begun preparing for a partial restart of its Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, nickel operation using management and non-union workers. Cory McPhee, spokesman for Vale’s Inco unit, said “We have to keep all our options open, and no decision has been made in that respect, but certainly we have to do what’s best for the business.” He said the company is running a program training managers to run the operations if the decision is made to restart. While about 3100 workers are on strike at Sudbury, there are about 1200 non-unionized workers still on site maintaining the mines, mill, refinery, and smelter. Workers have also walked off the job at the company’s mine in Voisey’s Bay, Newfoundland, and the processing facility at Port Colborne, Ontario.