The facility emits “tens of tons of harmful air pollutants each year, including sulphur oxide, nitrogen oxide, carbon monoxide, and particulate matter, commonly known as soot.”
Pacific Steel Casting
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Pacific Steel Casting seeks to revise permit for aging plant
Residents have long been concerned about odors and other pollutants emanating from Pacific Steel Casting on Second Street, lodging hundreds of complaints with local and regional bodies.
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West Berkeley’s Pacific Steel sold to equity firm
Pacific Steel Casting Plant. Photo: Michael Layefsky West Berkeley’s Pacific Steel Casting, which filed for bankruptcy earlier this year, is slated to be sold to a private equity firm for $11.3 million, according to the Dow Jones Daily Bankruptcy Review. Monday, a judge in Oakland approved the offer from Speyside Equity to purchase the steel […]
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West Berkeley’s Pacific Steel files for bankruptcy
Pacific Steel Casting has been operating in West Berkeley since 1934. Photo: Michael Layefsky Pacific Steel Castings, based in west Berkeley since 1934, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in Oakland on Monday. Pacific Steel, one of the largest independent steel casting companies in the U.S., has 410 employees in three separate plants at the […]
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Peaceful Pacific Steel protest ends at West Berkeley plant
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Hundreds rally in Berkeley to protest Pacific Steel layoffs
Several hundred people gathered at Old City Hall for a rally before the protest march Friday. Photo: Lance Knobel On a bright, sunny day, hundreds of protesters gathered in front of Berkeley’s Old City Hall to rally against the immigration laws that prompted the firing of 200 Pacific Steel Casting workers in December last year. […]
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Pacific Steel accused of labor violations in lawsuit
A former worker for Pacific Steel filed a $31 million lawsuit against the foundry on Friday, accusing management of breaking labor laws by not giving workers a break after six hours of work. Timothy P. Rumberger, a Berkeley attorney, filed the class action lawsuit in Alameda County Superior Court on behalf of Roberto Rodriguez and […]
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200 undocumented Pacific Steel workers lose their jobs
In March, workers briefly went out on strike against Pacific Steel This is not going to be a Merry Christmas for many of the workers at Pacific Steel. After a recent crackdown by the Department of Homeland Security, 200 workers who could not provide a valid social security number are being laid off. Those let […]
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Pay raise, no added health costs in Pacific Steel contract
Workers at Pacific Steel strike. Photo: Frances Dinkelspiel The workers at Pacific Steel Casting won’t have to make new co-payments for their health insurance, according to details of a new contract released today by the union. After a strike last week, the company and members of Local 164B of the Glass, Molders, Pottery, Plastics and […]
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Workers at Berkeley’s Pacific Steel accept new contract
Police square off against protesters. Photo: Michelle Vitetta The strike is over at Pacific Steel Castings in Berkeley. Workers at one of the largest foundries on the West Coast voted to accept a new contract this morning, according to Elisabeth Jewel, a spokeswoman for the company. She did not provide any details of the agreement […]
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Negotiations resume in Pacific Steel strike
Police square off against protesters. Photo: Michelle Vitetta The two clashing sides in the Pacific Steel Casting strike returned to the bargaining table on Wednesday, a day after Berkeley police resorted to tough tactics to push back a group of strikers from a warehouse on Fifth Street. On Tuesday, about 100 strikers gathered outside a […]
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Workers from Berkeley’s Pacific Steel go on strike
Workers on strike against Pacific Steel. Photo: Frances Dinkelspiel About 470 workers at the Pacific Steel Casting plant went on strike around midnight Monday to protest what they characterized as unfair take-backs by the foundry’s management. After talks broke down between the owners of Pacific Steel and representatives from Local 164B of the Glass, Molders, […]
