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WEATHERSFIELD United Steelworkers at Howmet and executives with the Pittsburgh-based company have a new two-year agreement that saves the plant’s titanium melt shop from closing and keeps the facility viable for when the aerospace industry recovers from the viral pandemic.
The deal reached Thursday calls for the company to invest millions in capital improvements at the Warren Avenue plant that, according to the top union official there, will drive down the cost to make titanium, making the facility more competitive and cost effective.
In exchange, USW Local 2155 President Terry Thirion said the union agreed to Howmet’s wanting flexibility in contract language that allows the company to contract out work and with staffing in the melt shop.