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Article: National Steel-United Steelworkers. (agree on contract) (Developments in Industrial Relations)
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- Monthly Labor Review
- Article date:
- August 1, 1989
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National Steel-United Steelworkers In the second 1989 settlement in the steel industry, National Steel Corp. and the United Steelworkers agreed on terms similar to those at Bethlehem Steel Corp., with some exceptions. (See Monthly Labor Review, July 1989, p. 43, for the Bethlehem terms.) The differences resulted because the 1986 accord at National called for smaller cuts in wages and benefits than the Bethlehem accord--64 cents an hour versus $1.97, according to a Steelworkers' official--and because the companies continue to insist that terms must be tailored to their individual conditions, in contrast to the pre-1986 practice of settling on essentially identical ...