PITTSBURGH (TNS) — On July 20, Bernie Hall will be sitting across the table from Nippon Steel — whose takeover of Pittsburgh-based U.S. Steel one year ago he did not support — and bargaining for the workers’ share of the blockbuster deal sealed a year ago.
Hall is the director of District 10 of the United Steelworkers of America, the Downtown-based union that counts 11,000 U.S. Steel workers as members.
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