Some U.S. Steel workers ratify 3-year contract, USW says

The United Steelworkers union said more than 16,000 workers at U.S. Steel’s U.S. sheet steel and iron ore operations ratified a three-year contract that provides a 2 percent wage increase next September and a 2.5 percent increase in January 2015. The contract expires Sept. 1, 2015. The steel producer said an identical contract covering about 1,000 workers at U.S. Steel’s tubular plant in Lone