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Locker Associates is a New York City based business-consulting firm that specializes in enhancing the competitiveness of businesses and industries on behalf of corporate, union and government clients.  By combining expert business and financial analysis with a sensitivity to labor issues, the firm is uniquely qualified to help clients manage change by:

Leading joint labor/management business improvement initiatives

Facilitating ownership transitions to secure the long-term viability of a business

Conducting strategic industry studies to identify future challenges and opportunities

Representing unions in strategic planning and workplace reorganization

Formulating business plans for turnaround situations

Performing due diligence for equity and debt investors

Over the last nineteen years, the firm has directed over 200 projects spanning manufacturing, transportation, distribution and mining industries.  Typical projects involve in-depth analysis of a firm's market, financial and operating performance on behalf of a cooperative labor-management effort.  Locker Associates also publishes a widely read newsletter, Steel Industry Update, that circulates extensively throughout the steel industry.

Major clients include:

AFLCIO George Meany Center
Air Line Pilots Association
Algoma Steel
American Federation of Musicians
Armco Employees Ind. Federation
Bank of Boston
Bethlehem Joint LaborMgmt Committee
Boilermakers Union

Canadian Steel Trade & Employment Congress
Carbide Graphite Group
Cleveland State University
Hancock Venture Partners
Inland Steel Joint LaborMgmt Committee
International Association of Machinists
International Brotherhood of Teamsters
International Union of Electrical Workers
Ipsco
J &L Structural, Inc.
Lazard Freres
LTV Joint Labor/Management Project
Minnesota Gov's Task Force on Mining
NY State Ownership Transition Services
New Resina Corp

North American Refractories

Northwestern Steel and Wire
Prudential Securities

Santander Investment Securities
Service Employees International Union
Sharpsville Quality Products
Special Metals
Specialty Metals

Stelco Steel
SYSCO Food Service of San Francisco
Trustee for Sharon Steel Bankruptcy

UNITE!
United Auto Workers
United Mine Workers
United Steelworkers of America
US Steel Joint Labor/Management Comm
US Steel/KOBE
Watermill Ventures
Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel

 


Steel Industry Statistics
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Detailed List for Chinese Import Taxes on Steel and Other Products
January 8, 2008


ISRI Presentation
September, 2007

Click Here for pdf of Michael Locker's ISRI Presentation


Monthly World Steel Production Statistics
Year-end, 2007 Data

January, 2008 Data


Locker Associates.....
In the News

Industry Week
Where Does Steel Go Now? (12/07)

Maryland Daily Record
Steelworkers Union Fear: Stand-alone Sparrows Point (12/07)

Baltimore Sun
Esmark-Sparrows Point: Collapse of Deal (12/07)

Dayton Business Journal
Esmark: Streamlining Work to be Done at W-P (11/07)

WSAZ.com
Massey Energy: New Project in India (11/07)

Recycling Today
Steel's New Comfort Zone (11/07)

Purchasing.com
Scrap Steel Spot Prices Are Rising (10/07)

ISRI -- The Friday Report
For The Week Ending September 28th (9/07)

American Metal Market
Scrap Shortages Expected to Drive More Mill-Scrapyard Tie-ups (9/07)

Reuters
Nucor 3rd Profits Below Expectations (9/07)

Baltimore Sun
Sparrows Point Wins OK (9/07)

Recycling Today
A Nimble Giant Arcelor-Mittal (7/07)

Reuters
Nucor 2q Profits Falls 23 Percent (7/07)

American Metal Market
US Steel Joins Stelco Tour Group (7/07)

American Metal Market
Reliance Inks Deal to Buy Clayton Metals (6/07)

Reuters
Nucor Sees Earnings Below Analysts (6/07)

CNN-Money
Steelmaker Nucor Warns on Earnings (6/07)

Hamilton Spectator
Stelco Selling 150 Acres of Land (6/07)

Globe and Mail
Stelco Gears up for Parade of Suitors (6/07)

Hamilton Spectator
Stelco Hires Two Banks to Assess Alternatives (6/07)

Globe and Mail
Ipsco Battle and Excercise in Consolidation (5/07)

American Metal Market
Mittal in Talks to Buy AK (5/07)

Dallas Morning News
Chaparral Weighing Options (4/07)

Reuters
U.S. Steel Buying Lone Star (3/07)

Globe and Mail
Rumours Kill Algoma Takeover Talks (3/07)

Hamilton Spectator
Analysts Losing Faith in Mott (3/07)

Globe and Mail
Arcelor Mittal - No Dofasco Sale (2/07)

American Metal Market
Algoma Confirms Talks (2/07)

Toronto Star
Takeover Talks Shake Algoma Up (2/07)

Globe and Mail
Algoma a Takeover Target? (2/07)

American Metal Market
TK to Step up Plan for US Mill (1/07)

MarketWatch
Steel Prices Slip (12/06)

American Metal Market
A Stampede of Foreign Steelmakers (11/06)

Business Week
Evraz to Buy Oregon Steel
(11/ 06)

Globe and Mail
Evraz Spikes Stock Prices (11/06)

Reuters
US Steel Profit Surges (10/06)

Herald News Daily
AK Steel CEO Says Company Not For Sale (10/06)

Empire Information Services
Locker Associates Review of NYSARC Bond Applicants (9/06)

The New Yorker
The Risk Pool (8/06)

Journal News
AK Steel Settles With OSHA (8/06)

Middletown Journal
AK Steel to Contest Citation (
8/06)

American Metal Market
Niagara Sale Could Have Bigger Implications (7/06)

Middletown Journal
AK: Lockout Can Go On (7/06)

Middletown Journal
AK Steel Lockout Continues (7/06)

Middletown Journal
AK Steel Lockout (7/06)

Reuters
CEO Tough Talk on Union (7/06)

Reuters
US Steel 2Q Profit Up (7/06)

The Intelligencer
Wheeling-Pitt Exceeds 2Q Expectations (7/06)

TeckWhack Business News
US Steel Profits Up (7/06)

American Metal Market
AK Steel Labor Hurdles Remain (6/06)

American Metal Market
AK-AEIF Labor Dispute (5/06)

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Middletown Journal
AK Middletown Lockout Ends (3-07)

Cincinnati Post
Union Heads Help Make AK Deal 3-06

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AEIF-IAM Conference Call Regarding AK Steel-Middletown Lockout

AEIF-IAM/Locker Associates Conference Call Attendees List
Conference Call Attendees List 7-25-06

AEIF President Brian Daley's Presentation to AK Steel Analysts and Investors
AEIF-IAM Presentation 7-25-06

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