At the end of October, U.S. Steel will quit sending steel slabs to be processed at Granite City Works, according to a union memo shared on Friday with St. Louis Public Radio.

The company notified the local chapter of the United Steelworkers on Thursday. The decision means employees will stop production come November and keep the mill ready to start up again.

There will be no layoffs because of this decision, according to the memo.

U.S. Steel and the new Japanese owner Nippon cannot further idle, close or sell the Metro East mill without approval from the Trump Administration in the next two years, as part of the deal negotiated by the U.S. government in the $14 billion sale.

With this development and both blast furnaces currently idled, it remains unclear what exactly U.S. Stee

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