After Nine-Day Strike, Work Resumes at Steel of West Virginia

State Journal, The, September, 2006 by Ryan, Beth Gorczyca

HUNTINGTON - Production at Steel of West Virginia resumed this week after the company and workers agreed to a new contract, ending a nine-day strike.

Members of United Steelworkers of America Local 37 voted 231 to 147 to approve a new contract Sept. 3. The workers resumed work two days after that.

"It's going great," Steel of West Virginia President Tim Duke said Sept. 5 on the workers' first day back. "You'd never know we'd had a work stoppage."

The strike began Aug. 25 after union members rejected the company's final contract offer. While the steel company offered wage increases averaging about $2 per hour over the life of the four-year contract, union workers said they were more concerned about changes the company wanted to make to workers'...

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