Evraz Business Update

Today the Union Executive met with Evraz Senior Leadership (Michael Yeats, Brad Forster, Debbie Beaton, Fiona Adams). The company gave a brief business update, all markets are depressed. That being said, the price of hot rolled coil has increased slightly in the last week.

Late last week there was a decision on normal values by the Canadian Border Services Agency against the Korean Steel maker HUSTEEL. The language from CBSA wasn’t as strong as Evraz had hoped but the normal values appear to favor Evraz. The Union and Company will be in discussion for next steps as we have worked together on numerous cases and 5890 has lead the way on the USW National Stand for Steel Campaign .

The Steel shutdown looks as though it will be 2 weeks at the end of April and we have been informed that will run from April 22nd till May 8th. There appears to be no change in production for May, however the summer months may be different. Further discussions between the union and company on that in roughly the next month.

Tubular will have the 24″ finishing off the last of the remaining order in the next couple weeks and the 2″ moving to 1 crew. Mill Operator recalls should happen for April 15th. Its expected to remain on 1 crew for most of summer.

There was no update on the sale of Evraz. The company is hoping to be able to announce things in the next few months.