The United Steelworkers (USW) today said that its members have ratified their new contract with RG Steel, which purchased USW represented facilities in a stock transaction last month from Severstal North America.

Roughly 57 percent of the hourly production, maintenance, office and clerical employees of the former Wheeling Pittsburgh Steel facilities in the Ohio Valley; the former W.C.I. Steel facility in Warren, Ohio; and the former Bethlehem Steel facility in Sparrows Point, Md., along with Mountain State Carbon in Follansbee, W. Va. and Wheeling Corrugating in Wheeling, W. Va. voted in favor of the new contract.

USW International President Leo W. Gerard praised the members at RG Steel for enduring over two years of uncertainty over ownership issues and the future of the plants ... more