USW Members Ratify Labor Contract Extension for AK Steel's Mansfield Works
12/10/2010 - Members of USW Local 169 ratify a three-year extension to a labor agreement at AK Steel's Mansfield Works. The extension includes lump sum payments to covered employees in 2010 and 2012 as well as an increase to standard hourly wage rates in 2013.
Members of United Steelworkers (USW) Local 169 have ratified a three-year extension to a labor agreement at AK Steel's Mansfield Works. The agreement covers about 270 hourly production and maintenance employees at the facility.
“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 contract extension provides $1000 lump sum payments in 2010 and 2012 to each represented employee covered by the contract, as well as a $0.50 increase to the standard hourly wage rates in April of 2013.
The new agreement extends the existing contract at Mansfield to March 31, 2014. The existing contract was scheduled to expire March 31, 2011.
AK Steel said it was notified by USW officials that the contract extension passed in voting held Thursday in Mansfield. Terms of the extension are effective as of December 3, 2010.
AK Steel produces flat-rolled carbon, stainless and electrical steels, primarily for automotive, appliance, construction and electrical power generation and distribution markets. The company employs about 6200 men and women in Middletown, Mansfield, Coshocton and Zanesville, Ohio; Butler, Pa.; Ashland, Ky.; Rockport, Ind.; and its corporate headquarters in West Chester, Ohio.
AK Tube LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of AK Steel, employs about 300 men and women in plants in Walbridge, Ohio, and Columbus, Ind. AK Tube produces carbon and stainless electric resistance welded (ERW) tubular steel products for truck, automotive and other markets.
