Steelworkers Picket in Push for Severance

United Steelworkers Local 8782 president Bill Ferguson, who is one of several hundred workers locked out of U.S. Steel Canada's Lake Erie Works, said they want Fonseca to listen to their plight and change the language in the Employment Standards Act so that about 800 workers can get their severance pay.

The workers were laid off from the Nanticoke plant, which was temporarily shut down by U.S. Steel in March. Another 200 workers were locked out after labour talks hit an impasse in August.

Under the act, an employee who has been off work for 35 weeks over a period of 52 consecutive weeks must be offered permanent severance pay.

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