Pilkington North America, a subsidiary of Nippon Sheet Glass, has announced it is closing its Lathrop, Calif., plant, which currently manufactures commercial architectural and automotive glass. According to a release from the company, ...
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The Delaware Chancery Court has granted Cooper Tire & Rubber Co.'s request for an expedited hearing of its October 4, 2013, complaint against Apollo Tyres Ltd. Cooper filed the complaint on behalf of its shareholders asking the court to ...
United Steelworkers (USW) International President Leo W. Gerard released the following statement in response to the U.S. Department of Justice’s announcement that an additional nine Japan-based auto parts producers, along with two ...
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Cooper Tire's Roy Armes says the lawsuit against Apollo "is a necessary step in the process to assure that the terms of the merger agreement are met as required and that we do everything possible to get the transaction closed promptly." ...
Cooper Tire and Rubber Co. says it is assessing its options after an arbitrator blocked the sale of two of its plants to Apollo Tyres Ltd. The arbitrator upheld two grievances filed by the United Steel Workers (USW) in a ruling issued on ...
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Cleveland, Ohio-based Cliffs Natural Resources Inc. announced Thursday that the United Steelworkers Union local membership have ratified a three-year labor contract agreement for its Bloom Lake Mine in Fermont, Quebec. The new labor ...
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. says the four-year master labor contract ratified by members of the United Steelworkers union on August 22, 2013, meets the goals established prior to the negotiations. It also helps the company continue its ...
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Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations LLC (BATO) and the United Steel Workers (USW) reached a settlement regarding the labor contracts at BATO's tire and tube plants represented by the USW in Akron, Ohio, Des Moines, Iowa, LaVergne, Tenn., ...
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West Chester, Ohio-based AK Steel said Friday that members of the United Steelworkers (USW) Local 1865 union have ratified an 18-month labor agreement covering more than 800 hourly production and maintenance steel operations employees at ...
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Japan is set to to resume the purchase of US western white wheat, a development which will lift a two-month ban on the grain that was imposed after an unapproved genetically modified (GM) trait was discovered in a single field in Oregon, ...
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US Steel has sent a letter to employees at its pickling operations in Nanticoke, Ontario telling workers to not interact with locked out picketers at the company's Lake Erie Works plant. The letter from US Steel, posted on the USW Local ...
On Thursday, US Steel Canada sent a letter to United SteelWorkers Local 8782, to advise that the company is giving union workers 72 hours' notice of its intention to lockout employees at 9:00am on April 28, 2013. On Tuesday, Local USW ...
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Denmark - Once confined to concert venues and festival stages, popular music is increasingly found in the halls of academia. Newly equipped with a variety of Meyer Sound wide-coverage loudspeakers, the Rhythmic Music Conservatory (Rytmisk ...
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The US International Trade Commission (USITC) Tuesday determined that revoking the existing antidumping duty order on clad steel plate from Japan would be likely to lead to continuation or recurrence of material injury within a reasonably ...
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Baltimore Business Journal reported that Baltimore County Executive Kevin Kamenetz officially declared steelmaking at Sparrows Point dead on Thursday and said the plant would be dismantled. Gov Martin O'Malley released the following ...
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