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	<title>Baltimore Brew &#187; Sparrows Point</title>
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		<title>Sparrows Point ex-union chief retains cushy&#160;job</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jul 2011 12:36:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Reutter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[John Cirri may have resigned as president of Local 9477 of the United Steelworkers, but that doesn’t mean he’ll go back to the mill and make steel. Instead, according to well-placed sources, the longtime union boss will move down the hall to another office at the union annex and hold the job of contract coordinator. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Problems at “L” blast furnace have delayed Sparrows Point&#160;start-up</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2011 10:51:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Putting Baltimore's largest industrial facility back into full production has hit a hard obstacle – a malfunctioning blast furnace that, at the moment, nobody knows how to fix. Without L furnace operating smoothly, the Point can't produce its own steel, threatening the livelihood of 2,500 employees.]]></description>
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		<title>Steelworkers approve controversial new&#160;contract</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 May 2011 20:16:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Reutter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By a 57-43 percent margin, steelworkers at Sparrows Point and two other mills in Ohio agree to a contract with RG Steel, which recently purchased the properties from Severstal. The stage is now set for Sparrows Point to resume production, with the L blast furnace expected to be "blown in," or restarted, this Sunday.]]></description>
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		<title>Sparrows Point’s new owner won’t “flip” or close mill, union official&#160;says</title>
		<link>http://www.baltimorebrew.com/2011/04/21/sparrows-point%e2%80%99s-new-owner-won%e2%80%99t-%e2%80%9cflip%e2%80%9d-or-close-mill-union-official-says/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2011 02:12:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Reutter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Worried Baltimore steelworkers were told this afternoon that RG Steel, the new owner of Sparrows Point, is not “a fly-by-night operator” who will sell or close the steel mill. David McCall, chief negotiator for the United Steelworkers (USW), responded to speculation that the company, formed by New York financier Ira Rennert, will operate for a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brew reporting makes the news in&#160;Ohio</title>
		<link>http://www.baltimorebrew.com/2011/03/25/brew-reporting-makes-the-news-in-ohio/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Mar 2011 13:16:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brew Editors</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seems like this blog has become sensational in Steubenville! A television station broadcasting from this Ohio Valley town is reporting that steelworkers from the local mill, Severstal Wheeling, are &#8220;fired up and firing off&#8221; in the Brew about the contract agreement between the union and new owner RG Steel. &#8220;An Internet blog has been blowing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Steelmaking to restart at Sparrows Point in&#160;May</title>
		<link>http://www.baltimorebrew.com/2011/03/17/just-in-steelmaking-to-restart-at-sparrows-point-in-may/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Mar 2011 14:41:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Reutter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The “L” blast furnace and other steelmaking facilities closed since last July at the Baltimore County mill will be reopened in May, according to an announcement made to employees this morning. “We will begin to immediately recall certain employees and begin preparations for the restart of the primary operations at Sparrows Point,” said the joint [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brew obtains highlights of new contract with RG&#160;Steel</title>
		<link>http://www.baltimorebrew.com/2011/03/13/brew-obtains-highlights-of-new-contract-with-rg-steel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2011 00:30:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Reutter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The contract is not what many steelworkers had hoped for, but is what the union claims will keep Sparrows Point and two other mills operating under new ownership. Base pay will increase modestly – but remain below wages at other steel mills.

**UPDATE: More details on incentives and new hire pay**]]></description>
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		<title>Sparrows Point contract with new owner&#160;coming</title>
		<link>http://www.baltimorebrew.com/2011/03/11/sparrows-point-workers-will-soon-see-contract-with-new-owner/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Mar 2011 02:32:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Reutter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After meeting in Pittsburgh, local presidents and other officers of the United Steelworkers union (USW) unanimously ratified today the labor contract reached by David McCall, chief USW negotiator, with RG Steel, sources told The Brew. The USW will mail a summary of the proposed contract – whose terms have not been disclosed – to 6,000 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ABC News reports that buyer of Sparrows Point lobbied U.S. to intervene in&#160;Peru</title>
		<link>http://www.baltimorebrew.com/2011/03/08/abc-news-reports-that-buyer-of-sparrows-point-lobbied-u-s-to-intervene-in-peru/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Mar 2011 21:06:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Reutter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Renco Group, the new owner of the Sparrows Point steel mill, is in the thick of national news today, as ABC’s Brian Ross investigative unit reports that the company spent at least $245,000 lobbying members of Congress to intervene in a dispute with Peru over pollution from Renco’s lead smelter. Renco, owned by Ira Rennert, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Renco Group buys Sparrows&#160;Point</title>
		<link>http://www.baltimorebrew.com/2011/03/02/renco-group-buys-sparrows-point/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2011 13:51:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Reutter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[BREW EXCLUSIVE:
The Renco Group has just announced that it signed a purchase agreement to buy Sparrows Point and two other steel mills from Severstal North America in a transaction estimated at $1.2 billion. 


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