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First group of union workers back in mill after 13 months (AK Steel's Middletown Works)
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First group of union workers back in mill after 13 months
TERRY KINNEY
Associated Press

CINCINNATI - Production and maintenance workers who were locked out of AK Steel's Middletown Works for more than a year are returning to the mill in a smooth and trouble-free transition, union and company officials said Wednesday.

"The only problem I really have is we've had people who were union people that crossed our line or retirees that have gone back in there and worked while we were locked out, and I don't really want to shake any of their hands," Jeff Blevins, a Machinists union member and 18-year mill employee, said Wednesday. "I was trying to protect their benefits, and they were making money keeping me out."

Blevins, 40, was among the first wave of union workers called back for physicals, drug and alcohol screening, safety training and reorientation. He went back in the mill Monday, helping turn slabs of steel into coils.

"The place looked the same, sounded the same, smelled the same," Blevins said. "It felt like I had just come back after a long weekend off."

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