PITTSBURGH--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Allegheny Technologies Incorporated (NYSE: ATI) today announced that the United Steelworkers (USW) and ATI Allegheny Ludlum and ATI’s Albany, OR titanium operations have reached tentative four-year agreements covering approximately 3,000 employees. If ratified, the agreements will expire on June 30, 2015. The USW has informed the Company that employees covered by the collective bargaining agreements will soon be notified of the ratification process. The existing contracts have been extended and are effective through August 1, 2011.
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Allegheny Technologies Incorporated is one of the largest and most diversified specialty metals producers in the world with revenues, including Ladish, of approximately $4.8 billion for the last twelve months. ATI has approximately 11,000 full-time employees world-wide who use innovative technologies to offer global markets a wide range of specialty metals solutions. Our major markets are aerospace and defense, oil and gas/chemical process industry, electrical energy, medical, automotive, food equipment and appliance, machine and cutting tools, and construction and mining. Our products include titanium and titanium alloys, nickel-based alloys and superalloys, grain-oriented electrical steel, stainless and specialty steels, zirconium, hafnium, niobium, tungsten materials, forgings, castings, and fabrication and machining capabilities. The ATI website is www.ATImetals.com.