Wheeling’s pension plans may be terminated.
Banks holding about $530 million in troubled loans to Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel asked a bankruptcy judge to terminate pension plans for management employees and about 20,000 United Steelworkers. Terminating the plan would save the company about $57 million a year. U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Warren W. Bentz scheduled a hearing on the motion for Oct. 15.
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