Stelco Lake Erie Works is a greenfield steel mill located in Nanticoke, Ontario, Canada.

[17] Negotiations to extend the union contract for workers of Stelco Lake Erie Works failed on April 25, 2013.

As a result, the company made their official decision to lock out all workers starting on the morning of April 28, 2013.

The parent company (U.S. Steel) offered some information about "getting tough on Canadian labor during a soft economic climate."

Employers from that region have started to use innovative business venture plans from the globalized economy to bring 2600 residents back into the labor force.

[22] Even as the lockout reaches the status of a "provincial labor dispute," certain members of the Canadian Parliament have indicated that the motives of U.S. Steel directly violate the Investment Canada Act; which prevents foreign companies from investing beyond a certain size if they do not present a "net benefit to Canada."

[23] Threatening the cost of living allowance with the changing of the base year from 1971 to 2002 was also one of the main reasons that the Stelco Lake Erie Works employees went on lockout.