Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel lost a round in court.
The company had sought an injunction to prevent striking employees from collecting unemployment benefits in Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Ohio, but U.S. District Judge Glenn E. Mencer ruled that the steelmaker did not meet standards already set. His decision came at the end of two days of hearings in Pittsburgh. About 8,200 union members walked off the job at nine plants in Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia on July 21, protesting the steelmaker’s court-approved rejection of its labor contract.
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