US STEEL WORKERS REFUSE COMPANY DEAL TIED TO INVESTMENT PLANS
January 1st, 2012
BY LEAH GERMAIN, IN EDMONTON
A DEAL between the USA's United Steelworkers (USW) union and the American steel company Timken Co has collapsed over the weekend after workers voted it down, curtailing the company's plans for a US dollars USD225 million expansion project in Ohio. The agreement had been negotiated to replace the current contract, which expires in September 2013.
United Steelworkers Local 1123, the union branch representing 2,200 paid-by-the-hour workers at three Timken steel plants at its home town of Canton, Ohio, refused the new contract, claiming ...
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