Steelworkers on strike at ArcelorMittal over lost purchasing power

CONTRECOEUR, Que. – Some 300 workers at ArcelorMittal’s Contrecoeur-Ouest steel plant are on strike to back up demands for real wage increases needed to reverse years of lost purchasing power. The workers, members of Local 6951 of the Syndicat des Métallos/United Steelworkers union, began their strike Aug. 1 following several months of negotiations, during which […] The post Steelworkers on strike…