More Striking Ormet Workers Arrested

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Just hours after 10 members of the United Steelworkers of America 5724 were released from jail, seven members of the USWA 5760 were arrested.

According to the Monroe County Sheriff's Office, the workers who went to jail Monday were arrested for allegedly violating a court order. According to the Sheriff, the court order specifies that striking workers are not allowed to stop trucks from traveling into the plant.

Officers brought the six men and one woman to the jail around 2:00 p.m. Monday. However, members of the USWA 5760 say they don't believe their fellow strikers did anything wrong. Witnesses say the seven workers approached a truck trying to cross into Ormet and asked them to respect their picket line. They say the driver then turned around and left. The witnesses say that is when a number of police cars pulled up to the scene and arrested the workers.

Friday night, officers arrested ten people with the USWA 5724 for allegedly getting out of control on the picket line. Those ten workers were released from jail on their own recognizance just hours before the most recent arrests.

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