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U.S. Steel warned the state more jobs would be lost as a result of its indefinite idling of East Chicago Tin.

The Pittsburgh-based steelmaker, one of Northwest Indiana's largest employers, updated the Indiana Department of Workforce Development that seven more jobs would be lost at the plant.

U.S. Steel revised its earlier Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification, or WARN notice, to also caution the state that 314 workers would be displaced, instead of the 307 it originally reported. The steelmaker said it expects that fewer than 150 steelworkers will be laid off for the foreseeable future, while more than half would be transferred to Gary Works and the Midwest Plant in Portage, where it is consolidating its tin operations.

U.S. Steel Employee Relations Director James Van Buren wrote in a letter to the state the plant idling also would displace six security workers and a labor relations representative. Those workers will be laid off starting on Dec. 8, going through January of 2020. The displacements of the other 307 steelworkers starts on Nov. 9th.