Labor Union Blog

On the picket lines for nine days workers at Latrobe Specialty Steel in Pennsylvania voted Thursday to return to work. Instead, they received a call any worker dreads, the company had to decided to lock them out. The company has been continuing production since the strike began with the use of temporary workers and supervisors. Three hundred seventy five workers are off the job. They originally walked off to protest a two-tier wage system proposed by the company. A federal mediator has been called into to work out the differences between United Steelworkers Local 1537 who represents the workers and the steel company.