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USW Responds To Wheeling-Pitt’s Latest Announcements

For Immediate Release                                      September 21, 2006

PITTSBURGH, PA –– The United Steelworkers today issued the following statement regarding the situation at Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel:

While the Union chooses not to respond to each of the Company’s recent statements on a point-by- point basis, we note the following.

The USW will not permit Wheeling-Pittsburgh to force an unwanted transaction down the throats of our members and retirees in clear violation of hard-won collectively bargained rights.

There would not be a Wheeling-Pittsburgh today were it not for the extraordinary commitment and sacrifice of the Steelworkers Union and its members and retirees. We are quite frankly amazed that, after all we have done for this Company, it would continue to pursue a transaction that their workforce strongly opposes.

The Steelworkers Union has demonstrated on occasions too numerous to count that we can be an extraordinarily powerful ally. At the same time, however, the record is equally clear that to have us as an adversary is in no one’s interest.

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