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The United Steelworkers Union has filed suit against Pittsburgh-based Alcoa for terminating life insurance coverage for union-represented retirees. The…
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While Alcoa executives and stockholders gathered in a hotel downtown Wednesday for a shareholders’ meeting, a group of workers from one of the company’s…
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In the heart of America's diminished steel country, support for President Donald Trump's tariffs on imports is broad and bipartisan. It is tempered,…
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Alcoa Corp. said Wednesday that its fourth-quarter loss widened to $196 million as it continued working to streamline operations.The Pittsburgh-based…
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Ford kicked off a battle in the U.S. auto industry in 2015. The body of its iconic F-150 truck went from being made of steel to being made of aluminum.…
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On a recent afternoon, Steve Kubrick climbed to the brand new roof of one of his buildings to look at the last seven years of his life, poured into…
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One of President Trump’s signature campaign speeches was at a scrap aluminum plant near Pittsburgh in January 2016.“We are going to put American steel --…
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Amid Uber's self-driving cars and vans ferrying bread and vegetables to trendy restaurants, a plaque on Smallman Street in the Strip District celebrates…
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After moving its headquarters to New York 11 years ago, iconic aluminum manufacturer Alcoa is returning to Pittsburgh, where it was founded, at the…
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The Confluence, where the news comes together, is 90.5 WESA’s weekly news program.Each week, reporters, editors and bloggers join veteran journalist and…