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US Steel Master Agreement September 2008Agreement, if profit sharing payments for any quarter are more than $10 per hour due to the Company’sEuropean operations, the excess money will be banked and if profit sharing exceeds $20,000 a year per member,the excess will be contributed to the trust account designed to help offset our future health care costs.National Steel IncentiveThe incentive calculation for former National Steel Employees will be unlocked and now will be resetbased on the September 1, 2008 base rate of pay.Safety & HealthHealth, Safety and the EnvironmentYour bargaining team has secured a number of important improvements to our Safety and Health language,especially in the two areas that matter most – the right to refuse unsafe work, and a strong,effective union safety committee.Unsafe WorkIf an Employee believes in good faith that an assignment is unsafe, the Company must reassign theEmployee to another task until the investigation is complete, and the problem has been resolved.Previously the Company had the option of sending the Employee home. This unfairly punished memberswho acted in defense of their safety. The new language corrects this inequity and gives theCompany an incentive to resolve these cases quickly.Safety CommitteesFull-time Union safety representatives are vital to the Union’s mission. However, their number varieswidely across the Company. Some Local Unions have no full-time representatives at all. This problemhas been corrected by the addition of 11 new full-time safety representatives – chosen by the LocalUnion but paid by the Company – at the locations where they are needed.Safety and Health representatives at office and technical locals, who are not full-time, were given aguaranteed number of weekly hours to work on safety, at Company expense. The Agreement also locksin the position of Corporate-Level Union Safety and Health Coordinator, which has been essential inmanaging the Union’s safety and health activities across US Steel.In addition, the Union was able to improve the functioning of our Joint Safety and Health Committeesin the areas of safety training, auditing and the evaluation of proposed changes to corporate and localsafety policies and programs.Other Safety and Health ImprovementsThe Union was able to negotiate other improvements that will make US Steel a safer and better place towork:• Automatic external defibrillators can save many victims of heart attacks, but they have tobe deployed quickly. The Company has committed to installing AEDs in many differentlocations throughout the corporation, and training Employees in their use at Companyexpense.• Dangerous conditions on blast furnaces and other places where toxic gases can accumulate5