US EMPLOYMENT IN STEEL INDUSTRY REVERSES FALL
| WASHINGTON
The average number of all employees involved in US steel production and shipment rose in 1988 to an average 168,900 from the record low of 163,300 in 1987. The all-time high was 650,200 in 1953, the American Iron and Steel Institute says. The AISI first began to compile monthly figures in June 1933.