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Granite City Steel not closing
Granite City, IL – U.S. Steel will not close its Granite City mill as had been expected, a spokesman for U.S. Rep. Mike Bost said Thursday, May 28, 2015. Instead, it will lay off about 80 workers and keep one blast furnace in operation, spokesman Jim Forbes said.
Forbes said Bost’s office was informed of the decision by U.S. Steel, which owns the mill.
The company had planned a temporary shutdown of the entire mill by today, which would have meant laying off about 2,000 workers.
http://labortribune.com/granite-city-steel-shutdown-fast-approaching/