The United Steelworkers and US Steel have reached a tentative contract about an hour ago covering a 3-year period including all of the company’s steelworker operations with the exception of the Canadian business, which just reached a new labor contract earlier this year.
While there is no official word on any progress from ArcelorMittal (AMUSA) we have heard that the company is bringing its blast furnaces back on – the furnaces were just taken down a few days ago. This development would indicate that the company at a minimum is confident that they and the USW can work without a contract, and may indicate that the company is close to a contract of their own.
