We are USW Local 8782
Local 8782 was first chartered in 1979. With more than 1100 brothers and sisters working in the steel industry in Nanticoke Ontario we are proud Canadian steelworkers and we collective bargain for Stelco LEW, Stelco Pickling Division, Harsco and ESM.
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Week of May 4
We had a meeting on Wednesday to discuss issues about the pay stubs and the Workday payroll system. Moving forward there will be more detailed information on the pay stubs to make them easier to understand, similar to the last system.
Your main plant Grievance Committee has a meeting with Stelco next week to see if they can get through more of the backlog of grievances.
In the Pickle Lines, Line 6 may be going down for a 10 day outage in May. Line 5 just came back up from an outage in April.
Your SLC and Unit Chairs should have a PSP meeting today and will share that information as soon as we get it. If there is a payment, it should be made on May 15th.
The cost of Hot Rolled Steel seems to be very unstable as well. Currently the market has been between $800-$930USD/mt.
RUMOUR OF THE WEEK...
"I heard Cleveland Cliffs is closing down facilities in the U.S?"
Cleveland Cliffs is temporarily closing down some more U.S. facilities. Riverdale, Conshohocken and Steelton will be idled for an indefinite time. Some of the reasons are inefficiencies, logistics and poor sales (rail market). We have shifted to an all Canadian market. 100% of the steel we make stays in Canada, opposed to pre-tariff which 30% of our steel went to the United States.
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