AK to resume talks with union

Negotiators for AK Steel and the 1,800 locked-out Middletown Works employees will go back to the bargaining table next week. The company said that it will meet with negotiators from the International Association of Machinists Local 1943 on February 20, almost a year from the day workers were locked out, i.e., March 1, 2006. At the meeting, the union is expected to present a counterproposal to the company's last offer made on January 11.