1. ARCELORMITTAL NEGOTIATIONS
MEMBERSHIP UPDATE
Friday, August 31, 2012
Your Negotiating Committee Says:
“Continue to Work — We Will Too”
Your Negotiating Committee has that the stress and uncertainty on
decided that our best course of action at management does not interfere with
this point in negotiations with our attention to safety on the job.
ArcelorMittal is for all of us to continue We also need everyone to continue to
working while we continue to press stand strong and continue to say, loudly
forward in an effort to reach an and clearly, that we are united and we
acceptable contract. Whether the demand a FAIR CONTRACT NOW!
company will agree to our offer to If management chooses to continue
continue to work while we with the dangerous and
continue to bargain in Read the review of The Legal irresponsible positions and
good faith or instead Status of Union Members actions they have taken
choose to lock us out Working Without a Contract up to this point we may
remains unknown at this have to revisit our
on the back of this Update.
time. decision not to strike.
We are not taking the Should that become
strike option off the table — we are necessary we will schedule strike votes
saying only that it is in our best and take the appropriate action. For
interest to not call a strike at this now we urge everyone to continue to
time. work their schedule, and to continue
We all need to make sure — above all to work safe.
Your USW Nego a ng Commi ee
David McCall, Chairman Jim Robinson, Secretary
USW District 1 Director USW District 7 Director
Mark Granakis Tom Hargrove Lonnie Asher Sheldon Gregg
USW Local 979 USW Local 1010 USW Local 1011 USW Local 1165
Indiana Harbor East, Indiana Harbor
Cleveland Indiana Harbor West Coatesville
Long Carbon & Riverdale
Bill Prejsnar Ray Napoli Mark Glyp s Dave Bombich
USW Local 1375 USW Local 1688 USW Local 2911 USW Local 6115
Warren Coke Steelton Weirton Minorca Mine
Paul Gipson James Sanderson Lloyd Turpin Albert Caldwell
USW Local 6787 USW Local 7898 USW Local 9462 USW Local 2342
Burns Harbor Georgetown Conshohocken Columbus Processing
Todd Kegley Doug Mullen Kinley Porter
USW Local 9231 USW Local 9309 USW Local 9121
New Carlisle Columbus Coa ngs LaPlace

2. REMINDER:
THE LEGAL STATUS UNION MEMBERS
Q. If we work without a occurs when, after exhaustive good
contract, can the company faith negotiations by both sides,
change our pay, our benefits, neither party is willing to change
or our rights on the job? its negotiating position.
A. By law, when a contract ends Where the company and the
the company cannot make any union do not agree on whether an
unilateral changes to terms and impasse exists, the question is
conditions of employment without often resolved by the National
negotiating those changes with the Labor Relations Board (NLRB). If
union. The “terms and conditions the company's claim of impasse is
of employment” are the terms of not upheld by the NLRB then the
the old contract and the parties’ company will be required to return
past practices. to the old terms and conditions of
The company can only make a employment and pay backpay for
change if the union agrees or losses suffered by employees due to
where the negotiations have the illegally implemented
reached an “impasse.” An impasse unilateral changes.