Max Aicher North America: Tim Blackborow

Tim Blackborow: Max Aicher North America MANA locked out its workers at midnight on Saturday, but Tim Blackborow, chair of the United Steelworkers Local 1005's MANA unit says workers would much rather be inside doing their jobs, according to CBC. The picketing is the latest in a complex saga between MANA and roughly 118 steelworkers. The company purchased idled bar and bloom mills from U.S. Steel in November 2010 with much fanfare and the promise of new jobs for the city's struggling steel industry and A group of Hamilton steelworkers started picketing in front of the Max Aicher North America plant Wednesday, though they're doing so begrudgingly, a union rep says. We all want to be in there working. We don't want to turn around and be out here, he told Hamilton Wednesday morning. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.