Ford has invested $145m at its Cleveland engine plant in the US to manufacture its new EcoBoost engine. According to the car maker, the investment will create 150 jobs at the site. This move is part of the company's 2015 UAW collective ...
The International Longshore (ILWU) and Warehouse Union and the Pacific Maritime Association (PMA) have reached a tentative agreement on the maintenance and repair of truck chassis at West Coast ports, according to media reports. The news ...
Tags: bargaining agreement, Outdoor Industry, Sporting Goods
In a letter sent to the leaders of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) and the Pacific Maritime Association (PMA), the Sports & Fitness Industry Association (SFIA) along with other allied organizations are encouraging the ...
Tags: Sporting Goods, U.S.economy
Outdoor Industry Association (OIA) is among more than 100 federal, state and local associations that signed on to a letter sent to President Obama expressing deep concern over the deteriorating state of negotiations between the ...
Tags: Outdoor Industry, Sporting Goods
Kronos Worldwide, Inc. reported net income for the fourth quarter of 2013 of $2.9 million, or $.03 per share, compared to a net loss of $18.1 million, or $.16 per share, in the fourth quarter of 2012. For the full year of 2013, Kronos ...
Workers at the Port of Hong Kong have voted to call off their industrial action after accepting an improved wage offer and promises of further negotiations on working conditions – as well as an assurance that there will be no ...
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 Sunday morning, US Steel Canada locked out unionized workers at its Lake Erie Works flat rolled mill in Ontario. The gates of the mill have been closed but sources tell SteelOrbis that the mill's production has likely been shifted to ...
WASHINGTON, D.C. - An agreement in principle was reached on Thursday by East and Gulf Coast Port workers and operators with a federal mediator in labor contract negotiations that will allow both to avoid a shutdown of the nation's ports. ...
Tags: labor contract negotiations, East and Gulf Coast Port, shutdown
Patch.com reported that Esmark and its wholly owned steel services subsidiary, Esmark Steel Group, ratified an agreement with its labor union. Esmark, based in Sewickley, recently announced that members of the United Steelworkers of ...
Tags: Group ink, steel services, steel, Cold Rolling
Esmark Inc and its wholly owned steel services subsidiary, Esmark Steel Group jointly announced with the United Steelworkers of America that they have reached a tentative agreement with Local 1223 on a four year collective bargaining ...
Tags: acquisition, cold rolling, Esmark