Steelworkers union offers more concessions as Allegheny Technologies management threatens to bring in strikebreakers
The United Steelworkers has offered management additional concessions as they continue to isolate the strike by 1,300 steelworkers who are entering the sixth week on strike against Allegheny Technologies in Pennsylvania and four other states.
In the meantime, management is maintaining its hard line, ramping up plans to bring in strikebreakers to restart production.
After seven years without a raise, ATI workers are determine to recoup their enormous sacrifices. Their strike is part of growing signs of militancy, including the walkout by over 1,000 coal miners at Warrior Met in Alabama, nurses in Worcester, Massachusetts, graduate student workers in New York City, and ExxonMobil refinery workers in Beaumont, Texas. After a year of a deadly pandemic, workers are insisting on adequate pay, good benefits and safe working conditions.
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Pittsburgh JSW Steel Ohio has signed a long-term tolling agreement with Allegheny Technologies Inc. to convert slab produced at JSW s facility in Mingo Junction, Ohio, into hot-rolled coil at ATI s hot-rolling and processing facility in Brackenridge, Pennsylvania, JSW USA said in a statement May 4.
Not registered? Receive daily email alerts, subscriber notes & personalize your experience. Register Now As per the terms of the agreement, ATI is expected to hot roll a significant percentage of carbon steel slabs produced by JSW Steel USA, the company said in a statement. Actual tonnage figures were not provided by the company. The ATI facility has had similar arrangements with other US coil producers, such as NLMK USA.
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