At the start of April, U.S. Steel said it would temporarily lay off about 165 employees as part of the company's retrenchment. As of this week, 11 workers are on layoff at the facility, according to U.S. Steel spokeswoman Sarah Cassella. She said the company continues to adjust the number of employees at the facility on a weekly basis as business conditions change. U.S. Steel employs about 1,000 at the facility.

U.S. Steel has been adjusting production throughout its operations in recent months because of a strong dollar and an influx of imports, many of which U.S. Steel contends are unfairly traded.

Following the company's annual meeting of its shareholders at the end of April, U.S. Steel CEO Mario Longhi warned the company was bracing for a "stormy period." About 9,00 employees received notice of potential layoff under the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act.

However, in recent weeks, a large portion of the company's employees have gone back to work.
Earlier this week, the Birmingham Business Journal reported that more than 100 workers were back on the job at U.S. Steel's Fairfield Works. As of June 10, 75 workers had been on layoff in Fairfield, which is down from the 225 workers on layoff at the end of May.

On May 28, U.S. Steel said it would not move forward with its plans to idle its Granite City mill in Illinois, retaining 2,000 jobs. The company announced in March it would temporarily idle the facility as part of a consolidation of its North American Flat-Rolled operation.

As of June 15, U.S. Steel had 2,558 employees on layoff, according to Cassella. This figure includes represented and non-represented employees across all aspects of U.S. Steel's business, including its tubular, North American flat-roll, and Transtar operations.

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Source: Pittsburgh Business Times.