ATI Executives Celebrate Hard Work

ATI Executives Celebrate Hard Work and Dedication with Lockout, Reward Salaried Employees with Benefit Cuts

Long before Allegheny Technologies Inc. illegally locked out 2,200 USW members in an attempt to force them to accept unfair and unnecessary pay and benefit cuts, its top five executives paid themselves more than $19 million, including raises up to 70 percent.
CEO Richard Harshman and Executive Vice President Bob Wetherbee bragged to USW leadership in April 2015 about their plan to scuttle some 40 percent of the company's salaried workers, and in negotiations, they have boasted about slashing the pensions and benefits of active and retired salaried people.
Accoding to a recent advertisement, ATI wants to "celebrate the hard work and dedication of all our employees over the decates" and is proud of these same salaried personnel for their "commitment, persistence and ingenuity" to keep the facilities operating during the lockout and "making ATI even stronger for the future."
ATI's top executives should know better than to try to sell this fairytale. Nobody's buying it.
With the NLRB investigating multiple unfair labor practices and the company's skilled, trained and experienced union work force in the street on picket lines, ATI must understand that there will be no happy ending without a fair contract and an end to the lockout.

ATI Bargaining

More than 2,200 members of the United Steelworkers have been locked out of their jobs by Allegheny Technologies since August 15, 2015.  Workers have offered to continue working while negotiations proceed, but ATI's management team has rebuffed the offer and demanded that the union submit to deep concessions before allowing workers back to their jobs.