Union Files Grievances Against US Steel Over Sale to Japanese Company

The United Steel Workers Union (USW) has filed grievances against United States Steel Corporation over the pending $14 billion sale to Japan’s Nippon Steel. The union recently sent a letter to members explaining that it will enforce the successorship clause built into the union’s Basic Labor Agreements. “The grievance process is designed to resolve disputes internally between US Steel and the USW. The parties may ask arbitrators to get involved if issues cannot be resolved internally,” USW spokesman Tony Montana told The Epoch Times in an email. The grievances allege that U.S. Steel violated union contracts when it entered into a sale agreement with an affiliate of Nippon Steel Corporation in December....