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Middletown, OH, July 24, 2006 – The nearly five-month long lockout at AK Steel in Middletown, OH has cost Southwestern Ohio communities more than $100 million in economic activity, but the biggest losers could be AK Steel Corp. shareholders. Lost sales, late deliveries, concerns about the quality of the steel being produced by replacement workers
Read moreAK Lockout Timeline: On Feb 28, AK Steel Corp. in Middletown, OH locks out 2,700 production and maintenance workers represented by the Armco Employees Independent Federation (AEIF). Since the lockout began, retirements have reduced the number of locked out workers to current level of 2,200. The company claimed it needed to cut health care costs,
Read moreAppearing for the first time at the annual meeting of the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) since taking office in 2000, President George Bush used the occasion to tout the 1965 Voting Rights Act and urged the Senate to quickly pass legislation renewing key parts of the bill. “President Johnson called
Read moreBush Pledges to Sign Voting Rights Act Appearing for the first time at the annual meeting of the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) since taking office in 2000, President George Bush used the occasion to tout the 1965 Voting Rights Act and urged the Senate to quickly pass legislation renewing key
Read moreJuly 19, 2006 – Acting more than two months before AK Steel Corp. planned to increase health care costs for some retirees, a group filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the Middletown steelmaker in federal court. But it’s a case of dueling federal lawsuits: When AK announced last month that it would revise some retiree health
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