USW warns USS workers to prepare for stoppage

摘要

A strike or lockout at U.S. Steel Corp. is “a very real possibility,” the United Steelworkers union has warned. About 2,000 employees of the Pittsburgh-based steelmaker have been laid of amid a surge in imports, a drop in oil prices and a crash in demand for oil country tubular goods, the USW said in a text message. “U.S. Steel has responded to these challenges by demanding its employees accept a sweeping series of concessions.