AK Steel Calling Back Workers

[kantuckyII]

AK calling workers back

Russell — About 100 hourly workers are expected to return to AK Steel this week, according to company spokesman Alan McCoy.

Another 125 to 130 will follow the next week.

The company hopes to call back all the workers laid off in November.

The company, which began calling back workers earlier in January, had laid them off when it idled the blast furnace in November.

The idling was attributed to the sharp downturn in the economy and the resulting drop in steel orders.

The plant mostly supplies steel used in making automobiles.

[hoot]

Good deal. My brother-in -law just got called back.

[Focused]

Great news.. I know a lot of people who work there..... In fact, I spent 37 years there. Retired in 2001..

[OZZIEOHIO]

Thats good news.

[Mouth's Better Half]

That is great news. I have two families that are neighbors that have been laid off. If the steel and the car companies like GM and Ford don't come out of this financial crisis it will affect so many other businesses.

[Bassmaster]

That's awesome

[YOU'RE TIGER BAIT]

MY POPS RETIRED FROM THERE ALSO. MOST OF THE MAJORITY OF MY BIG LONG CONSTRUCTION JOBS WERE IN THAT PLANT WITH FURNCO, NICK DINIACO, OR OTHERS. AT ONE TIME THEY HAD OVER 4,000 EMPLOYEES.

[LICKING COUNTY FAN]

Sweet!!!

[jbl]

Hurray! I was fearful they would never call any back.