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Cleveland-Cliffs' Labor Deal Ratified For Its Ohio Facility

By Zacks Investment ResearchStock MarketsMar 19, 2020 10:23PM ET
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Cleveland-Cliffs' Labor Deal Ratified For Its Ohio Facility
By Zacks Investment Research   |  Mar 19, 2020 10:23PM ET
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Cleveland-Cliffs Inc. (NYSE:CLF) announced that its employees, represented by the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) Local 1943, have ratified a three-year labor agreement. It will cover around 1,825 hourly employees at the company’s AK Steel facility in Middletown, OH.

The contract was ratified through voting held on Mar 18, 2020. Moreover, the agreement is effective until May 15, 2023. Notably, the facility manufactures a wide array of carbon and stainless steel for automotive and other industries.

Per management, the new arrangement offers a competitive labor contract for the company and its employees at AK Steel Middletown Works.

Notably, Cleveland-Cliffs recently completed the acquisition of AK Steel Holding Corporation, combining the largest producer of iron ore pellets downstream in North America into the production of value-added steel and specialty manufactured parts for the automotive industry.

The combined company will have a unique position in the industry. Cleveland-Cliffs will possess a dynamic combination of assets — two efficient integrated blast furnace steel mills along with a new state-of-the-art hot briquetted iron (HBI) facility, two electric arc furnace plants and many other technologically developed facilities.

Shares of Cleveland-Cliffs have plunged 65.5% in the past year compared with the industry’s 31.1% decline.

On the fourth-quarter 2019 earnings call, the company expected average iron ore prices, steel prices and pellet premiums to be $90 per metric ton, $650 per short ton and $50 per metric ton, respectively, for 2020. Based on the assumptions, it expects to generate net income of $300-$325 million and adjusted EBITDA of $550-$575 million for 2020 on a stand-alone basis.

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The company currently carries a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold).

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