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Employment Security
ISSUE |
ATI PROPOSAL |
USW POSITION |
| Capital Expenditure | No enforceable commitment to invest CAPEX or repair and maintenance in our facilities for improvements and upgrades to ensure the long-term viability of our plants. | Management should agree to a process to identify expenditures for specific projects that keep our plants competitive and ensure that our jobs are safe for current and future generations of Steelworkers. |
Earnings Security
ISSUE |
ATI PROPOSAL |
USW POSITION |
| Wages | Less than a 2% wage increase in each year of a 4 year contract. | Fair wage increases in accordance with the rest of the industry. 4% - 3.5% - 3.5% and 3% with a $4,000 signing bonus. |
| Incentives | Refusal to discuss in a meaningful manner the problems and their misinterpretation associated with the incentive design of 2016. | Specific language that properly defines the redesign effort and protects earnings while improving productivity and specific key performance targets. |
Benefits and Retirement Security
ISSUE |
ATI PROPOSAL |
USW POSITION |
| Active Health Care | Force bargaining unit members to choose between paying premiums or accepting an inferior plan beginning in 2022 if health care costs rise. | Maintain our current health insurance provisions with no premium contributions and a willingness to develop a joint committee on health care to mutually agree to maintain cost reductions. Our current health care costs have actually decreased each year since 2016, yet ATI wants us to pay a larger percent of the cost beginning in 2022. |
| VEBA | ATI willing to increase contributions if the USW is willing to exclude profit sharing portion. | USW willing to exclude profit sharing portion, but must have a larger contribution than ATI is willing to commit. |
| Pensions | No improvement in the defined benefit plan and no increase in hourly contributions to the 401K plan. | Fair improvements for participants in the defined benefit plan and corresponding increases for those in the 401K plan. |
| Profit Sharing | ATI wants a new profit sharing plan design that would be based on the company reaching certain goals as determined by ATI. | Maintain the current profit sharing plan. |
In addition, The USW and ATI still remain apart on items such as provisions for IJOP, Office and Technical concerns, training and local issues, among others.