Vol.63/No.11 March 22, 1999
RMI Steelworkers build March 28 strike rally
About 150 strikers and others picketed USX's corporate
headquarters in Pittsburgh March 10. Steelworkers struck
Reactive Metals Inc., (RMI) in Niles, Ohio, October 1.
Steelworkers carried signs calling USX and RMI "partners in
greed." They shouted for USX officials to come down and
explain their complicity with RMI in the company's hard-line
stance in negotiations. Ray Raschilla, unit chairman of Local
2155-7, explained the strike is stronger today. He added that
the March 28 strike support rally "needs to be a big message
from steelworkers in the region because if they break this
strike, you could be next." Strikers have been getting flyers
out to other plants in the area and in local shopping centers,
as well as sending a 1,000-piece mailing to steelworkers in
Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, and Pennsylvania to encourage other
locals to attend. A local radio show, "Big guys in the
morning," devotes every show to discussing the strike. "The
company's tactics have brought us together," said melt shop
worker Bud Maiden. "It's been a long strike, but the longer
we're out, the stronger we have become."
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