PITTSBURGH (AP) — The United Steelworkers and Pittsburgh-based Allegheny Technology Inc. have extended their current contract by a week to give union locals time to review and ratify a reworked version of a four-year contract that rank-and-file union member rejected last week.
The union and Pittsburgh-based ATI announced the tentative deal June 30, the day the last contract expired. But retired workers urged rank-and-file members to reject the contract, saying it would increase the retirees’ medical insurance costs from about $40 per month to $200 per month.
The union was working under a contract extension that expired at midnight Monday, but the sides agreed to extend that another week so local union committees can explain some unspecified changes to the proposal before the union votes again.
The contract would cover 3,000 workers at Allegheny Ludlum plants in western Pennsylvania and an ATI plant in Albany, Ore.
