More Weirton Steel jobs at risk?

More Weirton Steel workers could lose their jobs when a Pennsylvania plant closes later this spring, a union official said Monday.
The Wheatland Tube Co. sent layoff notices to 125 hourly employees and 15 salaried employees at the company’s Sharon, Pa., plant on Friday. The plant is just across the state line from Youngstown, Ohio.
“Wheatland was one of our major hot band steel customers,” said Mark Glyptis, president of the Independent Steelworkers Union in Weirton. “Any steel company selling hot band to Wheatland or any other tube and pipe producer in this company will most certainly feel the effect of the Wheatland actions.”
Employment at Weirton’s steel mill dropped from about 14,000 in the mid-1970s to 2,100 last year, after Mittal Steel USA took operations over from the International Steel Group last year.

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