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money) is more substantial than a yearly paycheck using the 2002 base year for the same plan. The adjusted paycheck with inflation for the 2002 base COLA year would be $ 70,695 for an entire year of labor. Since the 1970s was a rather inflationary era and the 2000s were an era of light inflation, it helps to consider that the cost of gas rose faster from 1971 to 1980 than it did from 2001 to 2010.
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Reduced vacation time, consolidated pay schedules and the eradication of pay raises consistent with inflation are the secondary reasons behind the lockout. One thousand people are affected by this lockout and are free to seek
Employment Insurance at home through the Internet. The parent company (U.S.
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The drastic move to move all U.S. Steel operations back to the United States ended up costing about 1500 Canadian jobs. Both the
Nanticoke Lake Erie Works and its sister Hamilton Works were shut down in 2009 due to lock-out; leaving many people in the area with little or no disposable income to spend
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Negotiations to extend the union contract for workers of Stelco Lake Erie Works failed on April 25, 2013. As a result, the company made their official decision to lock out all workers starting on the morning of April 28, 2013. Unlike the previous lockout, failure to accept changes in wage structure
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and the other major North
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allowance with the changing of the base year from 1971 to 2002 was also one of the main reasons that the Stelco Lake Erie Works employees went on lockout. Earning a $ 45,000 per year paycheck on the 1971 base year for the company's "cost of living allowance" (which would be $ 338,253.59 in today's
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Lake Erie Works finally re-opened after the eight-month lockout on April 23, 2010, re-employing about 1100 people. Approximately 400 people never got their jobs back at Stelco Lake Erie Works simply because they were either too old, moved on to other careers, turned to welfare, or went back to
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in 2007 for an exact sum figure of $ 1,100,000,000 ($ 1,616,369,764.08 in today's money). The merger between the final independent
Canadian company and the American steel conglomerate was finalized on August 27 of that year. This operation has a focus on making
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area. Employers from that region have started to use innovative business venture plans from the globalized economy to bring 2600 residents back into the labor force. Even as the lockout reaches the status of a "provincial labor dispute," certain members of the
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has been affected by this turn of events because they failed to diversify their mix of industries. Norfolk County, however, has managed to mitigate some of the employment issues by becoming increasingly reliant on the economy of the
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on consumer goods and items. A tentative agreement at Lake Erie Works was made on April 8, 2010, after an eight-month lockout and a vote ratification was made on April 15, 2010, at 11:15 P.M.
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college. Most other local jobs lost during the global recession of the period were eventually restored; resulting in a major drop in the local unemployment rate for the summer of 2010.
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