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AK Steel O&T Employees Eject USWA in Ashland    

1 June 2000

AK Steel O&T Employees Eject USWA in Ashland    

    MIDDLETOWN, June 1 Members of an office and technical
bargaining unit at AK Steel's Ashland Works in Kentucky voted Wednesday to no
longer be represented by the United Steelworkers of America.  By a vote of 8
to 6, members of USWA Local 1865-2 voted to decertify the USWA bargaining unit
in a National Labor Relations Board-supervised election.  None of the votes
was challenged.  The employees, who work in various production scheduling and
technical jobs, had been represented by the USWA since 1992.
    (Photo:  http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/19990901/AKSLOGO )
    AK Steel produces flat-rolled carbon, stainless and electrical
steel products for automotive, appliance, construction and manufacturing
markets, as well as standard pipe and tubular steel products.  AK Steel is
headquartered in Middletown, Ohio.  It employs about 11,000 men and women in
steel plants and offices in Middletown, Coshocton, Mansfield, Warren and
Zanesville, Ohio; Ashland, Kentucky; Rockport, Indiana; and Butler, Sharon and
Wheatland, Pennsylvania.  AK Steel also produces snow and ice control
products, and operates a major industrial park on the Houston, Texas ship
channel.