The Nation - News from July 22, 1985
Approximately 8,200 United Steelworkers members, unwilling to take 18% pay cuts without negotiations, struck Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel Corp., a move management said may force liquidation of the nation’s seventh-largest steel producer. Picketing started at Wheeling-Pittsburgh’s nine plants in the Ohio and Monongahela river valleys. Wheeling-Pittsburgh, with annual sales of about $1 billion, has been in reorganization under Chapter 11 of the federal bankruptcy laws since April 16.
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