FOLLANSBEE — About 240 hourly workers at Mountain State Carbon have a new, three-year contract. “It’s the first pay raise workers at Mountain State have had since 2012,” he said, adding that the plant changed, hands and “we were non-union for about a year-and-a-half. I’m just happy we got wage increases in all three years and insurance down as low as we did. “You have to weigh the difficulty of getting 18 people paid an extra job class or getting 110 people an extra week of vacation. “There are only eight coke plants left in the U.S. and we’re one of them,” Poole said.

Source: The Star May 03, 2019 12:38 UTC