USW Members Ratify Labor Contract Extension for AK Steel’s Mansfield Works
Members of the United Steelworkers (USW) Local 169 have ratified a three-year extension to a labor agreement covering about 270 hourly production and maintenance employees at the company’s Mansfield, OH, works. The new agreement extends the existing contract to March 31, 2014.
Posted: February 4, 2011
AK Steel (West Chester, OH) said that members of the United Steelworkers (USW) Local 169 have ratified a three-year extension to a labor agreement covering about 270 hourly production and maintenance employees at the company’s Mansfield, OH, works. The new agreement extends the existing contract to March 31, 2014. The existing contract was scheduled to expire March 31, 2011.
The terms of the extension are effective as of December 3, 2010. The contract extension provides lump sum payments of $1,000 to each represented employee covered by the contract in 2010 and 2012. In addition, the standard hourly wage rates will be increased by $0.50 in April of 2013.
“We are pleased to have reached an early agreement on this contract extension which provides AK Steel with continued operational flexibility for our Mansfield Works, as well as a wage increase and other economic benefits for our hourly employees at that plant,” said James L. Wainscott, chairman, president and CEO of AK Steel.
The company employs about 6,200 men and women in Middletown, Mansfield, Coshocton and Zanesville, OH; Butler, PA; Ashland, KY; Rockport, IN; and its corporate headquarters in West Chester, OH.
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