A tentative agreement was reached between Allegheny Technologies Inc. and members of the United Steelworkers (USW) on Friday, after a strike that began in March.
The tentative contract involves 1,300 employees at nine ATI locations, who walked out on March 30 over what they said are unfair labor practices. The new contract would cover USW members at ATI plants in Harrison, Vandergrift, Derry Township and Washington, in addition to four out-of-state plants.
After several rounds of negotiations, the agreement will be retroactive to March 1 and expire Feb. 28, 2025, according to our partners at the Trib.
USW said contract negotiations started in early January for roughly 1,300 union members who have not had a wage increase since 2014.
While details of the agreement were not released, the bargaining committees were able to reach an agreement on health care insurance.
In a news release, USW said, “our committee has secured a fair contract that preserves our premium-free health insurance and includes meaningful wage improvements. Most importantly, the company relented on its demands for workers to cover the cost of wage increases by paying vastly more for health insurance.”
The USW also said another negotiation was for a fair return-to-work agreement, that “ensures an orderly recall of all eligible bargaining unit members, prevents USW members from working with temporary replacement workers who took our jobs, bridges our seniority for the duration of the labor dispute and protects returning strikers from unfair discipline.”
A date for voting for contract ratification has not been announced.
ATI said its focus had been on reaching an agreement with a cost structure that enables long-term stability for its employees, customers and business, according to the Trib.
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