Three car washes have signed union contracts, and employees are now members of the local United Steelworkers union.
These moves are already well-known to Honeywell, which has been locked in tough contract negotiations with the United Steelworkers Union.
The previous week the United Steelworkers union asked the administration to sue China in the WTO over subsidies of its renewable-energy industry.
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The offer mirrored last week's bid by India's Essar Steel Holdings except for one crucial difference: Severstal claims to have the support of the United Steelworkers union.
"This is ultimately going to be a political process, " said Ron Bloom, a former Lazard investment banker now with the United Steelworkers union, before the September Cleantech Group gathering.
Organized labor--the United Steelworkers union instigated the Chinese tire case at the International Trade Commission--cannot maintain its enthusiasm for the new president if he continues to side with the business community on trade issues.
In a strange new twist to the corporate drama that has been unfolding in the steel market, the United Steelworkers union is taking Esmark to arbitration to resolve their little spat over the sale of the company.
But then Severstal, the Russian steel behemoth controlled by billionaire Alexei Mordashov, matched the price, (See " Severstal Swoops On Esmark") and won over the United Steelworkers union, which partnered with Severstal on a counteroffer.
But during the period in which the FTZ application was pending, an army of professional antidumping law supporters the Committee to Support U.S. Trade Laws (CSUSTL), the United Steelworkers Union, the Steel Manufacturers Association, Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY), and others argued that granting the designation would serve only to circumvent the antidumping order, and that the well-being of the petitioner was all that mattered under the antidumping law.
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Members of the United Auto Workers union, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, the Steelworkers, teachers unions and others planned to board buses, joined by even some protestors from rival neighboring state Ohio.
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Under the United Steelworkers' contract with Esmark, set to expire on Sept. 1, the union has the right to veto any deal that changes control of the company.
Under the United Steelworkers' contract with Esmark, which is set to expire on Sept. 1, the union has the right to veto any deal that changes control of Esmark.
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