Economy
September 26, 2018
Union Signs New Contract at PTC Alliance
Written by Tim Triplett
PTC Alliance has reached a new four-year labor agreement with union workers at its Alliance, Ohio, plant. PTC Alliance manufactures welded and cold drawn mechanical steel tubing. The company employs about 220 workers covered by the Steelworkers contract, signed Sept. 23. Terms of the pact were not disclosed.
The company’s relations with the union have not always been amicable. In August 2017, striking workers walked off the job for two and a half months. More recently, PTC’s parent company filed a notice with the state of its intent to temporarily lay off 94 employees in November in anticipation of a fourth-quarter decline in welded tube orders. How the new contract affects those layoff plans is unclear.
