U.S. Steel#Mid-century

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In 1901, J.P. Morgan created U.S. Steel{{cite web |url=http://www.clevelandmemory.org/mentor/hitchcock.html|title=Hitchcock's Holdup by Sam Tamburro |publisher=The Cleveland Memory Project |access-date=17 April 2017}}{{Cite web |title=US Steel: first billion-dollar company |url=http://www.famousdaily.com/history/us-steel-corp-organizes-under.html#:~:text=On%20this%20day,%20February%2025,clashed%20with%20the%20federal%20government |access-date=2023-01-19 |website=www.famousdaily.com}} by merging Carnegie Steel, Federal Steel, and National Steel for $492 million, roughly equivalent to $18 billion today.Morris, Charles R. The Tycoons: How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J.P. Morgan invented the American supereconomy, H. Holt and Co., New York, 2005, pp.255–258. {{ISBN|0-8050-7599-2}}.{{cite web |url=http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/united-states-steel-corporation-history/ |title=United States Steel Corporation History |publisher=FundingUniverse |access-date=3 January 2014}}

During its peak years, U.S. Steel, then known on Wall Street as "The Corporation," was known more for its size than its efficiency or innovation. In 1901, the company was far and away the largest steel manufacturer, producing roughly two-thirds of the nation's steel. The company also operated the largest commercial fleet on the Great Lakes through its Pittsburgh Steamship Company.[https://www.amazon.com/Tin-Stackers-History-Pittsburgh-Steamship/dp/0814328326 Al Miller, Tin Stackers: The History of the Pittsburgh Steamship Company (Great Lakes Books Series)], Wayne State University, 1999 Due to large debts from its founding, since Andrew Carnegie demanded gold bonds for his share, and concerns about antitrust lawsuits, U.S. Steel operated cautiously.

In 1902, its first full year of operations, U.S. Steel made 67 percent of all the steel produced in the United States. Roughly a century later, however, in 2001, that production fell to only eight percent.

For much of the 20th century, U.S. Steel was both the world's largest steel producer and its largest corporation. It was capitalized at $1.4 billion (${{formatnum:{{Inflation|US|1.4|1900|r=1}}}} billion today),{{cite web|url=http://old.post-gazette.com/businessnews/20010225ussteel2.asp|title=Steel Standing: U.S. Steel celebrates 100 years|last=Boselovic|first=Len|date=February 25, 2001|work=PG News – Business & Technology|publisher=post-gazette.com – PG Publishing|access-date=6 August 2013|archive-date=12 October 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181012210047/http://old.post-gazette.com/businessnews/20010225ussteel2.asp|url-status=dead}} making it the world's first billion-dollar corporation,{{cite web|url=http://library.case.edu/digitalcase/CollectionDetail.aspx?PID=ksl:ussteel#0|title=US Steel|work=case.edu|access-date=17 April 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131112012626/http://library.case.edu/digitalcase/CollectionDetail.aspx?PID=ksl:ussteel|archive-date=2013-11-12|url-status=dead}} although the U.S Bureau of Corporations would later value it at around $700 million. {{cite book |last1=Chernow |first1=Ron |author-link1=Ron Chernow |title=The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance |publisher=Grove Press |location=New York City, NY |date=2001 |orig-year=1st pub. 1990 |isbn=0-8021-3829-2 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/houseofmorgan00ronc/page/86] |url=https://archive.org/details/houseofmorgan00ronc/page/83 }}

The company's headquarters was located in the Empire_Building_(Manhattan) in New York City; where it remained one of the building's largest tenants for 75 years.{{cite web |url=http://www.nyc.gov/html/lpc/downloads/pdf/reports/empirebldg.pdf |title=Empire Building Landmark Report |publisher=New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission 25 June 1996 |access-date=2 Sep 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131112013250/http://www.nyc.gov/html/lpc/downloads/pdf/reports/empirebldg.pdf |archive-date=12 November 2013 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }} Charles M. Schwab, the Carnegie Steel executive who originally suggested the merger to Morgan,{{cite book |last1=Chernow |first1=Ron |author-link1=Ron Chernow |title=The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance |publisher=Grove Press |location=New York City, NY |date=2001 |orig-year=1st pub. 1990 |isbn=0-8021-3829-2 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/houseofmorgan00ronc/page/83 83-84] |url=https://archive.org/details/houseofmorgan00ronc/page/83 }} ultimately emerged as the new corporation's first President.{{cite book |last1=Chernow |first1=Ron |author-link1=Ron Chernow |title=The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance |publisher=Grove Press |location=New York City |date=2001 |orig-year=1st pub. 1990 |isbn=0-8021-3829-2 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/houseofmorgan00ronc/page/85 85] |url=https://archive.org/details/houseofmorgan00ronc/page/85 }}

In 1907, U.S. Steel acquired its largest competitor, the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company, headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama, and Tennessee Coal was replaced on the Dow Jones Industrial Average by General Electric.{{Cite web |last=Sadlock |first=Joshua |date=2024-02-08 |title=The Long, Strange History of U.S. Steel |url=https://www.engineering.com/the-long-strange-history-of-u-s-steel/ |access-date=2024-12-10 |website=Engineering.com |language=en-US}} The following year, in March 1908, the company formed the Committee on Safety of United States Steel following chairman Elbert H. Gary's meetings with safety managers of the operating companies, leading to the introduction of the modern "Safety First" movement.{{Cite book |last=Aldrich |first=Mark |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XxqjIqE4yqIC&dq=%22u.s.+steel%22+AND+%22safety+first%22&pg=PP109 |title=Safety First: Technology, Labor, and Business in the Building of American Work Safety, 1870–1939 |date=1997-03-18 |publisher=JHU Press |isbn=978-0-8018-5405-7 |language=en}} The committee's formation was intended to enhance workplace safety, reduce worker accidents, and safeguard the company against criticisms and legal liability.

U.S. Steel's primary competitor, Bethlehem Steel, led by former U.S. Steel president Charles M. Schwab, was quicker to innovate. By 1911, U.S. Steel's market share had dropped to 50 percent. That same year, James A. Farrell became president and held the position until 1932.

Also in 1911, Standard Oil was broken up by the federal government, and the U.S. government attempted to use federal antitrust laws to break up U.S. Steel, but proved unsuccessful in doing so.

In a 2008 book, author Douglas Blackmon argued that U.S. Steel’s growth in the South was attributable partly to cheap Black labor and exploited convicts. The company, Blackmon argued, leveraged Black Codes and discriminatory laws to obtain Black workers at lower costs and had agreements with over 20 Alabama counties to use convict labor, paying locals nine dollars a month per worker. Many prisoners were forced into mines under harsh conditions, with some dying from abuse and malnutrition. This convict leasing system persisted into the late 1920s and was widespread across eight Southern states, benefiting companies and farmers alike.{{Cite news |url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=89051115 |title=The Untold History of Post-Civil War 'Neoslavery' |work=Talk of the Nation |publisher=NPR |date=28 March 2008}}{{cite book |title=Slavery by Another Name: The Re-enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War Two |publisher=Anchor Books |author=Douglas Blackmon |year=2008 |isbn=978-0-385-50625-0|title-link=Slavery by Another Name |author-link=Douglas Blackmon }}

U.S. Steel ranked 16th among United States corporations in the value of its World War II production contracts.Peck, Merton J. & Scherer, Frederic M. The Weapons Acquisition Process: An Economic Analysis (1962) Harvard Business School p.619 Production peaked at more than 35 million tons in 1953. Its employment was greatest in 1943, when it had more than 340,000 employees.

The federal government intervened to try to control U.S. Steel. In 1952, President Harry S. Truman attempted to take over the company's steel mills to resolve a crisis with its union, the United Steelworkers of America. The Supreme Court blocked the takeover by ruling that the president did not have the Constitutional authority to seize the mills.Alan F. Westin, The Anatomy of a Constitutional Law Case: Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co. V. Sawyer, the Steel Seizure Decision (1990). President John F. Kennedy was more successful in 1962 when he pressured the steel industry into reversing price increases that Kennedy considered dangerously inflationary.Grant McConnell, Steel and the Presidency, 1962 (1963)

According to author Dan Carter in The Politics Of Rage: George Wallace, The Origins Of The New Conservatism, And The Transformation Of American Politics, U.S. Steel did not support the Kennedy administration’s efforts to involve Alabama businesses in the desegregation of the University of Alabama, which Governor George Wallace had opposed.

In 1963, although the firm employed more than 30,000 workers in Birmingham, Alabama, company president Roger M. Blough "went out of his way to announce that any attempt to use his company position in Birmingham to pressure local whites was 'repugnant to me personally' and 'repugnant to my fellow officers at U.S. Steel.{{'"}}{{Cite book|last=Carter|first=Dan T.|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/32739924|title=The politics of rage : George Wallace, the origins of the new conservatism, and the transformation of American politics|date=1995|publisher=Simon & Schuster|isbn=0-684-80916-8|location=New York|pages=129|oclc=32739924}}

In the years following World War II, the steel industry and heavy manufacturing went through a restructuring, leading to a decline in U.S. Steel's need for labor, production, and portfolio. Many jobs moved offshore. By 2000, the company employed 52,500 people.

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In the early days of the Reagan administration, steel firms won substantial tax breaks in order to compete with imported goods. But instead of modernizing their mills, steel companies shifted capital out of steel and into more profitable areas. In March 1982, U.S. Steel took its concessions and paid $1.4 billion in cash and $4.7 billion in loans for Marathon Oil, saving approximately $500 million in taxes through the merger. The architect of tax concessions to steel firms, Senator Arlen Specter (R-PA), complained that "we go out on a limb in Congress and we feel they should be putting it in steel."{{cite book|author=John Hinshaw|title=Steel and Steelworkers: Race and Class Struggle in Twentieth-Century Pittsburgh|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qty2ZxFfEvAC|publisher=SUNY Press|page=238|isbn=9780791489406|date=February 2012}} The events are the subject of "The U.S. Steal Song" {{cite web |title=The U.S. Steal Song |website = YouTube| date=19 September 2015 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iK4_zki7c4| archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211104/1iK4_zki7c4| archive-date=2021-11-04 | url-status=live|access-date=4 February 2021}}{{cbignore}} by folk singer Anne Feeney.

In 1984, the federal government prevented U.S. Steel from acquiring National Steel, and political pressure from the United States Congress, as well as the United Steelworkers (USW), forced the company to abandon plans to import British Steel Corporation slabs. U.S. Steel finally acquired National Steel's assets in 2003, after National Steel went bankrupt. As part of its diversification plan, U.S. Steel acquired Marathon Oil on January 7, 1982, and Texas Oil and Gas several years later. In 1986, it reorganized its holdings as USX Corporation with U.S. Steel renamed USS, Inc. as a major subsidiary.{{cite book|author=John Leopard|title=Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range Railway|date=2005 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2VYKHYKi_VMC&pg=PA105|publisher=Voyageur Press|page=105|isbn=9781610606257}}

About 22,000 USX employees stopped work on August 1, 1986, after the United Steelworkers of America and the company could not agree on new employee contract terms. This was characterized by the company as a strike and by the union as a lockout. This resulted in most USX facilities becoming idle until February 1, 1987, seriously degrading the steel division's market share. A compromise was brokered and accepted by the union membership on January 31, 1987.{{cite thesis |last=Nash | first=Bradley Jr. |title=Labor Law and the State: The Crises of Unions in the 1980s |type=Ph.D. |chapter=Chapter Six: Strikes and the Reagan Labor Law Project—Three Case Studies |chapter-url=http://hdl.handle.net/10919/27339 |year=2000 |hdl=10919/27339 |access-date=2020-09-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130526143824/http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-04272000-10360018/ |archive-date=2013-05-26 |url-status=dead }} On February 4, 1987, three days after the agreement had been reached to end the work stoppage, USX announced that four USX plants would remain closed permanently, eliminating about 3,500 union jobs.

In late 1986, Corporate raider Carl Icahn launched a hostile takeover of the steel giant in the midst of the work stoppage. He conducted separate negotiations with the union and with management and proceeded to have proxy battles with shareholders and management. But he abandoned all efforts to buy out the company on January 8, 1987, a few weeks before union employees returned to work. By the late 20th century, U.S. Steel earned most of its revenue from energy operations.

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In 2001, under CEO Thomas Usher, it spun off Marathon and other non-steel assets, except Transtar, and expanded internationally by acquiring plants in Slovakia and Serbia.{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wll9WqFHv0sC&q=thomas%20j.%20usher&pg=PT119 | pages=111–120 | title=Strategy Power Plays: How the World's Most Strategic Minds Reach the Top of Their Game |last=((BusinessWeek)) | publisher=McGraw-Hill | year=2007| isbn=978-0-07-147560-0 | location=New York, NY | access-date=2009-12-18}}

During the early 2010s, U.S. Steel modernized its software systems across its manufacturing facilities.{{cite web|last=Boselovic |first=Len |url=http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/business/news/can-pricey-software-streamline-us-steel-687957/ |title=Can pricey software streamline U.S. Steel? |work=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |publisher=Post-gazette.com |date=2013-05-17 |access-date=2014-05-07}} Facing financial challenges, the company sold its underperforming Serbian mills near Belgrade to the Serbian government in January 2012.{{cite news |author=AP |date=2012-01-31 |title=Serbia buys U.S. Steel plant; Price: $1 |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/serbia-buys-us-steel-plant-price-1/ |access-date=2014-05-07 |publisher=CBS News}} In 2014, U.S. Steel’s falling market value caused its removal from the S&P 500 and its transfer to the S&P MidCap 400.

However, in October 2019, U.S. Steel made a bold strategic move by investing $700 million in Big River Steel, securing a 49.9% ownership stake in the pioneering LEED-certified steel facility.{{Cite news |last=Tita |first=Bob |title=U.S. Steel to Buy Stake in Lower-Cost Competitor |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-steel-to-buy-stake-in-lower-cost-competitor-11569940805 |access-date=2023-01-19 |website=WSJ |language=en-US}} Doubling down on its bet, U.S. Steel announced in December 2020 that it would acquire the remaining interest in Big River Steel for $774 million, finalizing the acquisition in January 2021.{{Cite news |last=Tita |first=Bob |title=WSJ News Exclusive {{!}} U.S. Steel to Buy Remaining Stake in New, Low-Cost Steel Mill |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-steel-to-buy-remaining-stake-in-new-low-cost-steel-mill-11607421607 |access-date=2023-01-19 |website=WSJ |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |title=Big River Steel Production Facility {{!}} U.S. Green Building Council |url=https://www.usgbc.org/projects/big-river-steel-production-facility |access-date=2023-01-19 |website=www.usgbc.org |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Big River Steel Mill is First Steel Production Facility to be LEED-Certified – Green Building News |date=14 March 2017 |url=https://greenbuildingnews.com/2017/03/14/big-river-steel-mill-first-steel-production-facility-leed-certified/ |access-date=2023-01-19 |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=Zack's Equity Research |date=19 January 2021 |title=U.S. Steel (X) Wraps Up the Acquisition of Big River Steel |url=https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/u.s.-steel-x-wraps-up-the-acquisition-of-big-river-steel-2021-01-19 |access-date=19 January 2023 |website=Nasdaq}}

In February 2022, U.S. Steel began construction on a new mill in Osceola, Arkansas which will be operational by 2024.{{Cite web |date=2022-02-10 |title=U.S. Steel breaks ground in Osceola, creating thousands of jobs |url=https://www.fox13memphis.com/news/local/us-steel-breaks-ground-osceola-creating-thousands-jobs/6NP675S54FAMZFRSP33JCSP6J4/ |access-date=2023-01-19 |website=FOX13 News Memphis |language=en}} In April 2022, the electric arc furnace flat-rolled Big River Steel mill in Osceola became the first ResponsibleSteel site certified in North America following an independent audit by SRI Quality System Registrar (SRI).{{Cite web |date=2022-07-28 |title=Appliance, auto demand slows: US Steel {{!}} Argus Media |url=https://www.argusmedia.com/en/news/2355799-appliance-auto-demand-slows-us-steel |access-date=2023-01-19 |website=www.argusmedia.com |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=U.S. Steel facility first steel mill in North America to win certification from ResponsibleSteel |url=https://www.post-gazette.com/business/pittsburgh-company-news/2022/04/04/u-s-steel-s-big-river-arkansas-first-mill-north-america-certification-responsiblesteel-decarbonization-emissions-health-safety/stories/202204040083 |access-date=2023-01-19 |website=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |language=en}}

{{Main|Proposed acquisition of U.S. Steel by Nippon Steel}}

On December 18, 2023, Nippon Steel proposed to acquire U.S. Steel for $14.9 billion, or $55 per share. This was a 142% premium compared to Cleveland-Cliffs, offer of $35 per share.{{Cite web |last=Tiwary |first=Shivansh |date=December 18, 2024 |title=Japan's Nippon Steel to acquire U.S. Steel for $14.9 billion |url=https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/japans-nippon-steel-plans-acquire-us-steel-7-bln-nikkei-2023-12-18/ |website=Reuters}} The Nippon proposal was approved by U.S. Steel shareholders in April 2024.{{Cite web |date=2024-04-12 |title=US Steel shareholders approve takeover by Japan's Nippon Steel opposed by Biden administration |url=https://apnews.com/article/us-nippon-steel-takeover-aa6075aabe046f86350f7df4e009cde6 |access-date=2025-02-03 |website=AP News |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Dasgupta |first=Aatreyee |date=April 12, 2024 |title=U.S. Steel shareholders approve $14.9 bln buyout by Nippon Steel |url=https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/us-steel-shareholders-approve-149-bln-buyout-by-nippon-steel-bloomberg-reports-2024-04-12/ |website=Reuters}} Nippon pledged to keep U.S. Steel's Pittsburgh headquarters and honor union contracts.{{Cite news |last=Goldstein |first=Steve |title=Nippon Steel to buy U.S. Steel after Pittsburgh icon put itself on the block |url=https://www.marketwatch.com/story/nippon-steel-said-its-reached-a-deal-to-buy-u-s-steel-for-14-1-billion-54f08494 |access-date=2023-12-18 |website=MarketWatch |language=EN-US}}{{Cite web |last=Matoney |first=Nick |date=2023-12-18 |title=Nippon Steel Corporation announces it will acquire U.S. Steel |url=https://www.wtae.com/article/nippon-steel-corporation-announces-it-will-acquire-us-steel/46161673 |access-date=2023-12-18 |website=WTAE |language=en}}{{Cite web |date=2023-12-18 |title=Japanese steel company purchasing Pittsburgh-based U.S. Steel in deal worth nearly $15 billion – CBS Pittsburgh |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/news/japanese-steel-company-purchasing-pittsburgh-based-u-s-steel-in-deal-worth-nearly-15-billion/ |access-date=2023-12-18 |website=www.cbsnews.com |language=en-US}}

The deal has received a range of reactions from prominent steelworkers labor union United Steelworkers (USW), policymakers, investors, and other stakeholders.{{Cite web |last=Bomey |first=Nathan |date=December 18, 2023 |title=United Steelworkers union blasts $15B U.S. Steel-Nippon deal |url=https://www.axios.com/2023/12/18/ussteel-nippon-usw-steelworkers |website=Axios}}{{Cite web |last1=Egan |first1=Matt |last2=Isidore |first2=Chris |date=December 19, 2023 |title=Growing bipartisan opposition to US Steel purchase by Japanese might not be enough to block deal {{!}} CNN Business |url=https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/19/business/bipartisan-opposition-japanese-purchase-us-steel/index.html |access-date=2024-03-15 |website=CNN |language=en}} On March 14, 2024, U.S. President Joe Biden declared that U.S. Steel must remain American-owned, stating the proposed acquisition by Nippon Steel would pose a risk to national security, and also declared that he would use U.S. regulatory authorities to scuttle the deal.{{cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/biden-say-us-steel-must-remain-domestically-owned-operated-2024-03-14/|title=Biden says U.S. Steel must stay domestically owned, a major blow to Nippon Steel|first1=Trevor|last1=Hunnicutt|first2=Alexandra|last2=Alper|publisher=Reuters|date=March 14, 2024|accessdate=March 15, 2024}} After this revelation, it was noted the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) had the authority to block the acquisition based on national security matters.{{cite web|url=https://m.usw.org/news/media-center/releases/2024/usw-welcomes-bidens-call-for-u-s-steel-to-remain-domestically-owned-and-operated|title=USW Welcomes Biden's Call for U.S. Steel to Remain Domestically Owned and Operated|publisher=United Steelworker|date=March 14, 2024|accessdate=March 15, 2024}}

In July 2024, Nippon Steel hired Mike Pompeo to lobby for its acquisition of U.S. Steel.{{Cite news |date=July 19, 2024 |title=Nippon Steel Hires Pompeo to Help Clinch Purchase of US Steel |url=https://finance.yahoo.com/news/nippon-steel-hires-pompeo-help-182947327.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240720200541/https://finance.yahoo.com/news/nippon-steel-hires-pompeo-help-182947327.html |archive-date=July 20, 2024 |work=Bloomberg}} By September, the Biden Administration signaled plans to block the deal, citing national security concerns.{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/09/04/biden-prepares-reject-us-steel-deal/|title=Biden preparing to block Nippon Steel purchase of U.S. Steel|first1=David J.|last1=Lynch|first2=Jeff|last2=Stein|newspaper=Washington Post|date=September 4, 2024|accessdate=October 21, 2024}}{{cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/us-steel-would-close-mills-move-headquarters-if-149-bln-nippon-deal-collapses-2024-09-04/|title=Biden close to blocking Nippon Steel deal to buy U.S. Steel, sources say|first1=Jeff|last1=Mason|first2=David|last2=Stephenson|first3=Alexandra|last3=Alper|publisher=Reuters|date=September 4, 2024|accessdate=October 21, 2024}} On December 10, 2024, it was reported that then U.S. President Joe Biden intended to block the proposed Nippon acquisition following the completion of a review by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), which later concluded several weeks later.{{cite news|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-12-10/biden-set-to-finally-kill-nippon-steel-s-proposed-takeover-of-us-steel?srnd=phx-latest|title=US Steel Drops as Biden Set to Block Nippon Steel Deal|first1=Josh|last1=Wingrove|first2=Joe|last2=Deaux|publisher=Bloomberg News|date=December 10, 2024|accessdate=December 12, 2024}}{{cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/japanese-takeover-could-spell-long-term-decline-us-steel-union-chief-says-2024-12-10/|title=Japanese takeover could spell long-term decline of U.S. Steel, union chief says|first=John|last=Geddie|publisher=Reuters|date=December 10, 2024|accessdate=December 12, 2024}}

On December 18, 2024, a letter from the CFIUS, which was written on December 14, 2024, was obtained by Reuters, which revealed that the stage was set for Biden to block the proposed Nippon Steel deal by the December 23 deadline, concluding that "The Committee has not yet reached consensus on whether the mitigation measures proposed by the Parties would be effective... or whether they would resolve the risk to U.S. national security arising from the Transaction" and that "The President may take such action for such time as the President considers appropriate to suspend or prohibit a covered transaction that threatens to impair the national security."{{cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/despite-revamped-proposals-nippon-steel-deal-track-be-blocked-letter-says-2024-12-18/|title=Exclusive: Despite revamped proposals, Nippon Steel deal on track to be blocked, letter shows|first=Alexandra|last=Alper|publisher=Reuters|date=December 18, 2024|accessdate=December 18, 2024}} On December 23, 2024 the CFIUS concluded its review of the proposed Nippon Steel buyout without reaching a consensus on national security risks.{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/12/23/nippon-steel-us-steel-biden/|title=Panel's deadlock on U.S. Steel sale leaves final decision to Biden|first1=David J.|last1=Lynch|first2=Jeff|last2=Stein|newspaper=Washington Post|date=December 23, 2024|accessdate=December 23, 2024}} The proposed Nippon buyout would then be officially blocked by President Biden on January 3, 2025.{{cite news|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/biden-blocks-japans-nippon-steel-acquiring-us-steel-rcna186073|title=Biden blocks Japan's Nippon Steel from acquiring U.S. Steel|first1=Steve|last1=Kopack|first2=Megan|last2=Lebowitz|first3=Rob|last3=Wile|publisher=NBC News|date=January 3, 2025|accessdate=January 3, 2025}} On January 6, Nippon Steel and U.S. Steel sued the Biden administration over the block.{{Cite news |last=Rappeport |first=Alan |date=2025-01-06 |title=U.S. Steel and Nippon Sue Biden Over Decision to Block Merger |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/06/business/us-steel-nippon-lawsuit.html |access-date=2025-01-13 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}{{Cite web |last=Alper |first=Alexandra |date=January 6, 2025 |title=U.S. Steel, Nippon sue Biden administration over decision to block merger |url=https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/us-steel-nippon-steel-file-two-lawsuits-after-biden-blocks-149-billion-deal-2025-01-06/ |website=Reuters}}

The companies also filed a RICO complaint against Cleveland-Cliffs, its CEO, and the head of the United Steelworkers, the primary union representing US Steel employees.{{Cite web |last=Primack |first=Dan |date=2025-01-06 |title=U.S. Steel sues Biden and rival Cleveland-Cliffs over blocked merger |url=https://www.axios.com/2025/01/06/us-steel-nippon-lawsuit-biden |access-date=2025-02-03 |website=Axios |language=en}} U.S. Steel said in a statement on January 13, 2025 that it remained committed to closing the deal with Nippon Steel.{{Cite web |last=Tausche |first=Chris Isidore, Arlette Saenz, Kayla |date=2025-01-03 |title=Biden blocks Japan's Nippon from taking over US Steel |url=https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/03/business/biden-blocks-us-nippon-steel-takeover/index.html |access-date=2025-02-03 |website=CNN |language=en}}

On January 27, 2025, activist investor Ancora Holdings released a proxy fight strategy with the goal of ousting CEO David Burritt and ending the litigation focused on completing the Nippon Steel acquisition.{{Cite web |last=Thomas |first=Lauren |title=Activist Ancora Pushes U.S. Steel to Drop Merger With Nippon Steel, Oust CEO |url=https://www.wsj.com/business/deals/activist-ancora-to-push-u-s-steel-to-drop-merger-with-nippon-steel-oust-ceo-ef1c47b3 |access-date=2025-02-03 |website=WSJ |language=en-US}} Ancora nominated Alan Kestenbaum as the new CEO, highlighting his experience in the steel industry and his vision for restoring U.S. Steel’s legacy.{{Cite web |date=2025-02-25 |title=Union leader says Ancora-backed pick is 'better choice' for U.S. Steel CEO |url=https://www.crainscleveland.com/manufacturing/steelworkers-president-says-kestenbaum-better-choice-lead-us-steel |access-date=2025-02-27 |website=Crain's Cleveland Business |language=en}} Kestenbaum has sought to build support for his potential leadership of U.S. Steel by meeting with White House officials, union representatives, and lawmakers. United Steelworkers President David McCall referred to Kestenbaum as “a much better choice” than current CEO David Burritt. This comment, along with growing interest from rank-and-file members, suggests a segment of the union may prefer a change in leadership rather than continuing uncertainty surrounding the proposed acquisition.{{Cite news |last=Deaux |first=Joe |date=14 March 2025 |title=US Steel Activist Investor Boosts Holding in Turnaround Push |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-14/us-steel-activist-investor-boosts-holdings-in-turnaround-push |access-date=17 May 2025 |work=Bloomberg News}}

Union members have expressed frustration with the drawn-out process involving Nippon Steel’s $14.1 billion bid. Although U.S. Steel has publicly supported the deal, labor groups remain concerned about the potential consequences for jobs, operations, and the company’s future under foreign ownership.

Ancora has proposed selling the company’s Big River Steel operations in Arkansas. The plan would use proceeds from the sale to modernize older unionized steel plants in Pennsylvania, Indiana, and Illinois. Ancora argues that investing in legacy facilities would support union jobs and revitalize traditional steelmaking operations. It contrasts this approach with Big River’s newer, non-union, energy-efficient model, which some in the union believe poses risks to union employment and national industrial capacity.{{Cite news |last=Deaux |first=Joe |date=25 March 2025 |title=USW Says Ancora Aims to Sell Mills to Fund US Steel Revival |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-25/usw-says-ancora-aims-to-sell-big-river-to-fund-us-steel-revival |access-date=17 May 2025 |work=Bloomberg News}}

U.S. Steel is a former Dow Jones Industrial Average component, listed from April 1, 1901, to May 3, 1991. It was removed under its USX Corporation name with Navistar International and Primerica.{{cite web|url=http://www.dogsofthedow.com/djdelete.htm|title=Dow Additions and Deletion Since 1929|work=dogsofthedow.com|access-date=17 April 2017}} An original member of the S&P 500 since 1957, U.S. Steel was removed from that index on July 2, 2014, due to declining market capitalization.{{cite web|url=https://www.spice-indices.com/idpfiles/spice-assets/resources/public/documents/98965_500martinxdepo.pdf?force_download=true|title=Martin Marietta Materials Set to Join the S&P 500|publisher=www.spice-indices.com|date=2014-06-27|access-date=2014-06-27}}{{cite news |url=http://americasmarkets.usatoday.com/2014/06/27/sp-500-loses-storied-member-gains-another/ |title=S&P 500 loses original member, regains another (kind of) |first=Matt |last=Krantz |date=June 27, 2014 |publisher=USA Today |access-date=July 4, 2014}}

The Board of Directors considers the declaration of dividends four times each year, with checks for dividends declared on common stock mailed for receipt on March, June, September, and December. In 2008, the dividend was $0.30 per share, the highest in company history By April 27, 2009, however, it was reduced to $0.05 per share.{{cite web|url=https://www.ussteel.com/uss/portal/home/investors/dividends/Dividend%20History/|title=U.S. Steel: Dividend history|work=ussteel.com|access-date=17 April 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160927175127/https://www.ussteel.com/uss/portal/home/investors/dividends/Dividend%20History/|archive-date=27 September 2016|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}} In February 2020, the dividend was reduced to $0.01 per share but was then later increased back to $0.05 per share in November 2021.{{Cite web |title=US Steel declares $0.01 dividend (NYSE:X) {{!}} Seeking Alpha |url=https://seekingalpha.com/news/3536637-us-steel-declares-0_01-dividend |access-date=2023-01-19 |website=seekingalpha.com |date=30 January 2020 |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=US Steel raises quarterly dividend to $0.05 {{!}} Seeking Alpha |url=https://seekingalpha.com/news/3760374-us-steel-raises-quarterly-dividend-to-005 |access-date=2023-01-19 |website=seekingalpha.com |date=28 October 2021 |language=en}}

U.S. Steel maintained the labor policies of Andrew Carnegie. Carnegie believed that "good wages and good workmen I know to be cheap labor."{{Cite book |last=Rees |first=Jonathan |title=Managing the Mills: Labor Policy in the American Steel Industry, 1892–1937 |publisher=University of Wisconsin-Madison |year=1997 |pages=509–529 |chapter=Homestead in Context: Andrew Carnegie and the Decline of the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers |chapter-url=https://journals.psu.edu/phj/article/viewFile/25439/25208}} The Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers union that represented workers at the Homestead, Pennsylvania, plant was, for many years, broken after a violent strike in 1892. U.S. Steel defeated another strike in 1901, the year it was founded. U.S. Steel built the city of Gary, Indiana, in 1906, and 100 years later it remained the location of the largest integrated steel mill in the Northern Hemisphere. U.S. Steel reached a détente with unions during World War I, when under pressure from the Wilson Administration it relaxed its opposition to unions enough to allow some to operate in certain factories. It returned to its previous policies as soon as the war ended, however, and in a 1919 strike defeated union-organizing efforts by William Z. Foster of the AFL.David Brody, Labor in crisis: The steel strike of 1919 (1965).

Heavy pressure from public opinion forced the company to give up its 12-hour day and adopt the standard eight-hour day.{{cite journal |last1=Whaples |first1=Robert |title=Winning the Eight-Hour Day, 1909–1919 |journal=The Journal of Economic History |date=1990 |volume=50 |issue=2 |pages=393–406 |doi=10.1017/S0022050700036512|s2cid=154433870 }} During the 1920s, U.S. Steel, like many other large employers, coupled paternalistic employment practices with "employee representation plans" (ERPs), which were company unions sponsored by management. These ERPs eventually became an important factor leading to the organization of the United Steelworkers of America. The company dropped its hard-line, anti-union stance in 1937, when Myron Taylor, then president of U.S. Steel, agreed to recognize the Steel Workers Organizing Committee, an arm of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) led by John L. Lewis. Taylor was an outsider, brought in during the Great Depression to rescue U.S. Steel. Watching the upheaval caused by the United Auto Workers' successful sit-down strike in Flint, Michigan, and convinced that Lewis was someone he could deal with on a businesslike basis, Taylor sought stability through collective bargaining.{{cite web |url=http://www.illinoislaborhistory.org/articles/267-massacre-at-republic-steel.html |title=Massacre at Republic Steel |publisher=illinoislaborhistory.org|access-date=17 April 2017 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110726172925/http://www.illinoislaborhistory.org/articles/267-massacre-at-republic-steel.html|archive-date=26 July 2011}}{{cite journal |last1=Hogler |first1=Raymond L. |title=Changing forms of workplace representation: the United States Steel Corporation, 1933–1937 |journal=Journal of Management History |date=1999 |volume=5 |issue=6 |pages=349–361 |doi=10.1108/13552529910288136}}

Still, U.S. Steel worked hand-in-hand with the Birmingham (Alabama) Police Department as it vigorously investigated and targeted labor activities during the 1930s and 1940s. The corporation developed and fed information to a "Red Squad" of detectives "who used the city's vagrancy and criminal-anarchy statutes (liberally reinforced by backroom beatings) to strike at radical labor organizers." In the 1950s, those investigations shifted from labor to civil rights activists.{{Cite book|last=Carter|first=Dan T.|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/32739924|title=The politics of rage : George Wallace, the origins of the new conservatism, and the transformation of American politics|date=1995|publisher=Simon & Schuster|isbn=0-684-80916-8|location=New York|pages=229|oclc=32739924}}

The Steelworkers continue to have a contentious relationship with U.S. Steel, but far less so than the relationship that other unions had with employers in other industries{{which|date=March 2018}} in the United States. They launched a number of long strikes against U.S. Steel in 1946 and a 116-day strike in 1959, but those strikes were over wages and benefits and not the more fundamental issue of union recognition that led to violent strikes elsewhere.Christopher G. L. Hall, Steel phoenix: The fall and rise of the US steel industry. Palgrave Macmillan, 1997. pp. 42–45.Jack Metzgar, Striking Steel: Solidarity Remembered (1999)

The Steelworkers union attempted to mollify the problems of competitive foreign imports by entering into a so-called Experimental Negotiation Agreement (ENA) in 1974. This was to provide for arbitration if the parties were not able to reach an agreement on any new collective bargaining agreements, thereby preventing disruptive strikes. The ENA failed to stop the decline of the steel industry in the U.S.Hall, Steel phoenix: The fall and rise of the US steel industry (1997) pp. 48–76

U.S. Steel and the other employers terminated the ENA in 1984. In 1986, U.S. Steel employees stopped work after a dispute over contract terms, characterized by the company as a strike and by the union as a lockout. In a letter to striking employees in 1986, Johnston warned, "There are not enough seats in the steel lifeboat for everybody."[https://www.nytimes.com/1986/08/10/weekinreview/verbatim-looking-for-a-lifeline.html "Verbatim; Looking for a lifeline"]. The New York Times, August 10, 1986. In addition to reducing the role of unions, the steel industry had sought to induce the federal government to take action to counteract the dumping of steel by foreign producers at below-market prices. Neither the concessions nor anti-dumping laws have restored the industry to the health and prestige it once had.Hall, Steel phoenix: The fall and rise of the US steel industry (1997). pp. 192–95.

In December 2022, a new four-year contract was ratified between members of the United Steelworkers union and U.S. Steel. This contract covers 11,000 workers at 13 locations. The new agreements were retroactive to September 1, 2022, and included a 5% base wage increase each year for the four years, a $4,000 bonus upon ratification of the deal, $0.50/hour increase in hourly contributions to the Steel Workers Pension Trust, $0.10/hour increase in 401(k) contributions, and uncapped profit-sharing.{{Cite web |title=USW members ratify new contract with U.S. Steel |url=https://www.post-gazette.com/business/career-workplace/2022/12/20/usw-members-ratify-new-contract-united-steelworkers-union/stories/202212200113 |access-date=2023-01-19 |website=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |language=en}}

During the 1948 Donora smog, an air inversion trapped industrial effluent (air pollution) from the American Steel and Wire plant and U.S. Steel's Donora Zinc Works in Donora, Pennsylvania.{{cite magazine |last=Boissoneault |first=Lorraine |date= 26 October 2018|title=The Deadly Donora Smog of 1948 Spurred Environmental Protection—But Have We Forgotten the Lesson? |url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/deadly-donora-smog-1948-spurred-environmental-protection-have-we-forgotten-lesson-180970533/ |magazine=Smithsonian Magazine |location= |publisher= |access-date=3 October 2021}}

In three days, 20 people died... After the inversion lifted, another 50 died, including Lukasz Musial, the father of baseball great Stan Musial. Hundreds more lived the rest of their lives with damaged lungs and hearts. But another 40 years would pass before the whole truth about Donora's bad air made public-health history.The Globe and Mail, December 7, 2002, book review by Andrew Nikiforuk When Smoke Ran Like Water by Devra Davis

Today the Donora Smog Museum in that city tells of the influence that the hazardous Donora Smog had on the air quality standards enacted by the federal government in subsequent years.

Researchers at the Political Economy Research Institute have ranked U.S. Steel as the 58th-greatest corporate producer of air pollution in the United States (down from their 2000 ranking as the second-greatest).{{Cite web |last=Baylor |first=Matthew |date=2019-07-25 |title=Toxic 100 Air Polluters Index (2022 Report, Based on 2020 Data) |url=https://peri.umass.edu/toxic-100-air-polluters-index-current |access-date=2023-01-19 |website=PERI |language=en-gb}} In 2008, the company released more than one million kg (2.2 million pounds) of toxins, chiefly ammonia, hydrochloric acid, ethylene, zinc compounds, methanol, and benzene, but including manganese, cyanide, and chromium compounds.{{cite web |url=http://www.rtknet.org/new/tox100/toxic100.php?company1=13659&chemfac=chem&advbasic=bas |title=Toxic 100 Detailed Company Report |access-date=2007-06-05 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081004230802/http://www.rtknet.org/new/tox100/toxic100.php?company1=13659&chemfac=chem&advbasic=bas |archive-date=2008-10-04}} Political Economy Research Institute In 2004, the city of River Rouge, Michigan, and the residents of River Rouge and the nearby city of Ecorse filed a class-action lawsuit against the company for "the release and discharge of air particulate matter...and other toxic and hazardous substances"[http://www.c2lawfirm.com/ussteel.jsp Charfoos & Christensen, P.C.] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070326003732/http://www.c2lawfirm.com/ussteel.jsp |date=26 March 2007 }} at its River Rouge plant.{{cite web |url=http://www.c2lawfirm.com/FactSheet.doc |title=U.S. Steel Fact Sheet from Charfoos & Christensen, P.C. |access-date=June 1, 2016}}{{dead link|date=June 2016|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}

The company has also been implicated in generating water pollution and toxic waste. In 1993, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued an order for U.S. Steel to clean up a site on the Delaware River in Fairless Hills, Pennsylvania, where the soil had been contaminated with arsenic, lead, and other heavy metals, as well as naphthalene. Groundwater at the site was found to be polluted with polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and trichloroethylene (TCE).{{cite web|url=http://www.epa.gov/reg3wcmd/ca/pgm_reforms.htm|title=Environmental Protection Agency|date=2016-04-14|work=epa.gov|access-date=17 April 2017}} In 2005, the EPA, United States Department of Justice, and the State of Ohio reached a settlement requiring U.S. Steel to pay more than $100,000 in penalties and $294,000 in reparations in answer to allegations that the company illegally released pollutants into Ohio waters.{{cite web|url=https://archive.epa.gov/epapages/newsroom_archive/newsreleases/4f69dcd7751df3c4852570bc0072ec63.html|title=09/21/2005: EPA, DOJ and state of Ohio reach agreement with U.S. Steel|work=epa.gov|access-date=17 April 2017}} U.S. Steel's Gary, Indiana facility has been repeatedly charged with discharging polluted wastewater into Lake Michigan and the Grand Calumet River. In 1998 the company agreed to payment of a $30 million settlement to clean up contaminated sediments from a five-mile (8 km) stretch of the river.[http://www.fws.gov/midwest/grandcalumetrivernrda/documents/USX.pdf U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080227000345/http://www.fws.gov/midwest/grandcalumetrivernrda/documents/USX.pdf |date=27 February 2008 }}

With the exception of the Fairless Hills and Gary facilities, the lawsuits concern facilities acquired by U.S. Steel via its 2003 purchase of National Steel Corporation, not its historic facilities.{{Citation needed|date=November 2024}}

In 2021, U.S. Steel announced a goal to target net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. The company previously set a target to reduce greenhouse gas emissions intensity by 20% by 2030.{{Cite web |last=Coyne |first=Justine |date=2021-04-21 |title=US Steel aims to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050 |url=https://www.spglobal.com/commodityinsights/en/market-insights/latest-news/coal/042121-us-steel-aims-to-achieve-net-zero-emissions-by-2050 |access-date=2023-01-19 |website=www.spglobal.com |language=en}}

The U.S. Steel Tower in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is named after the company and since 1970, the company's corporate headquarters have been located there. It is the tallest skyscraper in the downtown Pittsburgh skyline, built out of the company's Corten Steel.{{cite web|url=http://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=207 |title=US Steel Tower, Pittsburgh |publisher=SkyscraperPage.com |access-date=2014-05-07}} New York City's One Liberty Plaza was also built by the corporation as that city's U.S. Steel Tower in 1973.{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1129&dat=20010918&id=uYVIAAAAIBAJ&pg=2604,5662936&hl=en|title=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – Google News Archive Search|work=google.com|access-date=17 April 2017}}

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When the Steelmark logo was created, U.S. Steel attached the following meaning to it: "Steel lightens your work, brightens your leisure and widens your world."[http://news.steelers.com/tradition/logohistory/ Official site of the Pittsburgh Steelers – Logo History] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100126140923/http://news.steelers.com/tradition/logohistory/ |date=2010-01-26 }} The logo was used as part of a major marketing campaign to educate consumers about how important steel is in people's daily lives. The Steelmark logo was used in print, radio and television ads as well as on labels for all steel products, from steel tanks to tricycles to filing cabinets.Staff. [https://www.nytimes.com/1960/01/14/archives/producers-agree-on-symbol-to-appear-on-products-steel-industry.html "Producers Agree on Symbol to Appear on Products; Steel Industry Opens Campaign"], The New York Times, January 14, 1960. Accessed January 5, 2009.

In the 1960s, U.S. Steel turned over the Steelmark program to the AISI, where it came to represent the steel industry as a whole. During the 1970s, the logo's meaning was extended to include the three materials used to produce steel: yellow for coal, orange for ore and blue for steel scrap. In the late 1980s, when the AISI founded the Steel Recycling Institute (SRI), the logo took on a new life reminiscent of its 1950s meaning.{{cite journal |last1=Maffei |first1=N. P. |title=Selling Gleam: Making Steel Modern in Post-war America |journal=Journal of Design History |date=2013 |volume=26 |issue=3 |pages=304–320 |doi=10.1093/jdh/ept021}}

The Pittsburgh Steelers professional football team borrowed elements of its logo, a circle containing three hypocycloids, from the Steelmark logo belonging to the American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) and created by U.S. Steel. In the 1950s, when helmet logos became popular, the Steelers added players' numbers to either side of their gold helmets. Later that decade, the numbers were removed and in 1962, Cleveland's Republic Steel suggested to the Steelers that they use the Steelmark as a helmet logo.{{cite web |url=http://www.steelers.com/history/logo-history.html |title=Pittsburgh Steelers | History of the Steelers Logo |publisher=Steelers.com |access-date=2014-05-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180514184837/http://www.steelers.com/history/logo-history.html |archive-date=2018-05-14 |url-status=dead }}

U.S. Steel financed and constructed the Unisphere in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, Queens, New York, for the 1964 World's Fair. It is the largest globe ever made and is one of the world's largest free-standing sculptures.{{cite web |url=http://www.nyc.gov/html/lpc/downloads/pdf/reports/unisphere.pdf |title=The Unisphere Designation Report |access-date=2014-05-07 |archive-date=2017-03-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170301085029/http://www.nyc.gov/html/lpc/downloads/pdf/reports/unisphere.pdf |url-status=dead }}{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/Unispher1964 |title=Unisphere: Biggest World on Earth, The : MPO Productions, Inc. : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive |access-date=2014-05-07|year=1964 }}

The Chicago Picasso sculpture was fabricated by U.S. Steel in Gary, Indiana, before being disassembled and relocated to Chicago.{{cite web|url=http://www.chipublib.org/004chicago/timeline/picasso.html |title=Chicago: 1967 August 15 Picasso Statue Unveiled In Civic Center Plaza |access-date=2014-05-07 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060831142953/http://www.chipublib.org/004chicago/timeline/picasso.html |archive-date=August 31, 2006 }} U.S. Steel donated the steel for the construction of St. Michael's Catholic Church in Chicago since 90 percent of the parishioners worked at its mills.Justin G. Riskus, Lithuanian Chicago (Arcadia Publishing, 2013)

U.S. Steel sponsored The United States Steel Hour television program from 1945 until 1963 on CBS. U.S. Steel built both the Disney's Contemporary Resort{{cite web|url=http://www.disneydrawingboard.com/WDW/MKArea/Contemporary%20Resort/ContemporaryResort.html |title=Disney's Contemporary Resort |publisher=The Disney Drawing Board |access-date=2014-05-07}}{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIF6mc9SQA0 | archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211104/fIF6mc9SQA0| archive-date=2021-11-04 | url-status=live|title=Construction of WDW Contemporary Resort by U.S. Steel |publisher=YouTube |date=2007-01-31 |access-date=2014-05-07}}{{cbignore}}{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5hkPnmHw9g | archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211104/F5hkPnmHw9g| archive-date=2021-11-04 | url-status=live|title=The Contemporary Resort Hotel (US Steel Commercial) |publisher=YouTube |date=2008-12-27 |access-date=2014-05-07}}{{cbignore}} and the Disney's Polynesian Resort in 1971 at Walt Disney World, in part to showcase its residential steel building "modular" products to high-end and luxury consumers.{{cite web|url=http://www2.stetson.edu/library/im/specialcollections/disney5.pdf |title=United States Steel to Construct First Two "Theme Hotels" In Walt Disney World |publisher=Stetson University |access-date=2014-05-07}}

This same U.S. Steel manufacturing plant that was located on Disney property also helped build the now defunct Court of Flags Resort in Orlando, Florida, on Major Blvd.

U.S. Steel was also involved with Florida real estate development including building beachfront condominiums during the 1970s, such as Sand Key near Daytona Beach, Florida,{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1873&dat=19720901&id=W4UgAAAAIBAJ&pg=851,17566&hl=en|title=Daytona Beach Morning Journal – Google News Archive Search|work=google.com|access-date=17 April 2017}}{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1755&dat=19720901&id=fJwcAAAAIBAJ&pg=7202,113663&hl=en|title=Sarasota Herald-Tribune – Google News Archive Search|work=google.com|access-date=17 April 2017}}{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=888&dat=19701111&id=1itSAAAAIBAJ&pg=7200,346900&hl=en|title=St. Petersburg Times – Google News Archive Search|work=google.com|access-date=17 April 2017}} and the Pasadena Yacht and Country Club near St. Petersburg, Florida.{{Cite web | url=https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1163302/000119312506041454/dex21.htm | title=List of Subsidiaries}}

File:Edgar Thomson.jpg (BOP) shop and Ladle Metallurgy Facility of the Edgar Thomson Steel Works in the mid-1990s]]

U.S. Steel has multiple domestic and international facilities.{{cite web|url=https://www.ussteel.com/uss/portal/home/aboutus/facilities|title=U.S. Steel: Facilities|work=ussteel.com|access-date=17 April 2017|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160216235416/https://www.ussteel.com/uss/portal/home/aboutus/facilities|archive-date=16 February 2016}}

File:US Steel Clairton Works, Clairton PA (8900609120).jpg in Clairton, Pennsylvania]]

Of note in the United States are Clairton Coke Works, Edgar Thomson Works, and Irvin Plant, which are all members of Mon Valley Works{{cite web |url=https://www.ussteel.com/uss/portal/home/products/sheet/ |title=Sheet |access-date=2014-09-05 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140311055908/https://www.ussteel.com/uss/portal/home/products/sheet |archive-date=2014-03-11 }} just outside Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Clairton Works is the largest coking facility in North America. Edgar Thomson Works is one of the oldest steel mills in the world. The company acquired Great Lakes Works and Granite City Works, both large integrated steel mills, in 2003 and is partnered with Severstal North America in operating the world's largest electro-galvanizing line, Double Eagle Steel Coating Company at the historic Rouge complex in Dearborn, Michigan.

File:U.S. STEEL PLANT - NARA - 547097 (retouched).jpg in Gary, Indiana, is the largest integrated mill in North America.]]

U.S. Steel's largest domestic facility is Gary Works, in Gary, Indiana, on the shore of Lake Michigan. For many years, the Gary Works Plant was the world-largest steel mill and it remains the largest integrated mill in North America. It was built in 1906 and has been operating since June 28, 1908. Gary is also home to the U.S. Steel Yard baseball stadium.

U.S. Steel operates a tin mill in East Chicago now known as East Chicago Tin.{{cite web|url=https://www.ussteel.com/uss/portal/home/aboutus/facilities/company-facilities-eastchicagotin-eastchicagoind/|title=U.S. Steel: East Chicago Tin|work=ussteel.com|access-date=17 April 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160927175639/https://www.ussteel.com/uss/portal/home/aboutus/facilities/company-facilities-eastchicagotin-eastchicagoind/|archive-date=27 September 2016|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}} The mill was idled in 2015, but reopened shortly after.{{cite web | url=http://abc7chicago.com/business/us-steel-to-lay-off-350-at-east-chicago-tin-mill/486786/ |title=US STEEL TO LAY OFF 350 AT EAST CHICAGO TIN MILL |publisher=ABC |date=January 22, 2015}} The mill was then 'permanently idled' in 2019, however the facility remains in possession of the corporation as of early 2020.{{cite web | url=https://www.nwitimes.com/business/local/update-u-s-steel-to-idle-east-chicago-tin-lay/article_9d929100-5412-5b3f-bee4-2b6ef52ce8dd.html |title=U.S. Steel to idle East Chicago Tin, lay off around 150 workers; ArcelorMittal laying off tin workers in West Virginia |publisher=NWI Times |date=August 23, 2019}}

U.S. Steel operates a sheet and tin finishing facility in Portage, Indiana, known as Midwest Plant, acquired after the National Steel Corporation bankruptcy. U.S. Steel acquired National Steel Corporation in May 2003 for $850 million and assumption of $200 million in debt. U.S. Steel operates Great Lakes Works{{Cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2019-12-20/us-steel-layoffs-trump-michigan|title=U.S. Steel to cut 1,545 Michigan jobs as weakness overwhelms Trump's protection|last=Deaux|first=Joe|date=2019-12-20|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|language=en-US|access-date=2019-12-21}} in Ecorse, Michigan, Midwest Plant in Portage, Indiana, and Granite City Steel in Granite City, Illinois. In 2008 a major expansion of Granite City was announced, including a new coke plant with an annual capacity of 650,000 tons.{{cite web |date=May 5, 2008 |title=U.S. Steel Breaks Ground on State-of-the-Art Expansion at Its Granite City Works |url=http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/u-s-steel-breaks-ground-on-state-of-the-art-expansion-at-its-granite-city-works-57127112.html |publisher=PR Newswire}}

U.S. Steel operates Fairfield Works in Fairfield, Alabama (Birmingham), employing 1,500 people, and operates a sheet galvanizing operation at the Fairless Works facility in Fairless Hills, Pennsylvania, employing 75 people.

U.S. Steel operates three pipe mills: Fairfield Tubular Operations in Fairfield, Alabama (Birmingham), McKeesport Tubular Operations, in McKeesport, Pennsylvania, and Texas Operations (Formerly Lone Star Steel) in Lone Star, Texas. A fourth pipe mill, Lorain Tubular Operations in Lorain, Ohio is no longer operating at this time.

U.S. Steel operates two major taconite mining and pelletizing operations in northeastern Minnesota's Iron Range under the operating name Minnesota Ore Operations. The Minntac mine is located near Mountain Iron, Minnesota, and the Keetac mine is near Keewatin, Minnesota. U.S. Steel announced on February 1, 2008, that it would be investing approximately $300 million in upgrading (project later abandoned) the operations at Keetac, a facility purchased in 2003 from the now-defunct National Steel Corporation.{{cite web|url=http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/account/index.cfm?user=login&return_page=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eduluthnewstribune%2Ecom%2Farticles%2Findex%2Ecfm%3Fid%3D59373%26section%3DNews|title=Duluth News Tribune|work=duluthnewstribune.com|access-date=17 April 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080925035724/http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/account/index.cfm?user=login|archive-date=2008-09-25|url-status=dead}} In December 2022, an investment of $150 million was made in the plant.{{Cite web |last=WDIO News |date=5 October 2022 |title=Leaders help Keetac mark the start of $150 million dollar DR pellet project |url=https://www.wdio.com/mining-news/leaders-help-keetac-mark-the-start-of-150-million-dollar-dr-pellet-project/ |access-date=19 January 2023}}

U.S. Steel has completely closed nine of its major integrated mills. The Duluth Works in Duluth, Minnesota, closed in 1973. The Worcester Works in Worcester, Massachusetts closed in 1977.{{cite web|url=https://www.worcesterhistory.org/worcesters-history/worcesters-industrial-heritage/enterprise-timeline/ |title=Enterprise Timeline – Worcester Historical Museum |access-date=2023-12-22}} The Ohio Works and Macdonald Works in Youngstown, Ohio, closed in 1980, the Duquesne Works in Duquesne, Pennsylvania, and Ensley Works in Ensley, Alabama in 1984, the Homestead Works in Homestead, Pennsylvania, in 1986. Geneva Steel in Vineyard, Utah, was sold in 1987, South Chicago's South Works closed in 1992, followed by the National Tube Works in Mckeesport, Pennsylvania, in 2014.

Internationally, U.S. Steel operates facilities in Slovakia (former East Slovakian Iron Works in Košice). It also operated facilities in Serbia – former Sartid with facilities in Smederevo (steel plant, hot and cold mill) and Šabac (tin mill).[http://www.cs.uss.com/profile/index_en.html US Steel Serbia] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100106111942/http://www.cs.uss.com/profile/index_en.html |date=6 January 2010 }}

U.S. Steel added facilities in Texas with the purchase of Lone Star Steel Company in 2007.{{cite web | url=http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/u-s-steel-completes-purchase-of-lone-star-technologies-58094467.html | title=U.S. Steel Completes Purchase of Lone Star Technologies | publisher=PRNewswire |date=June 14, 2007}}

The company operates two joint ventures in Pittsburg, California, with POSCO of South Korea.{{cite web | url=http://www.bizjournals.com/pittsburgh/news/2014/01/03/uss-posco-to-lay-off-690-employees-in.html | title=USS-Posco to lay off 690 employees in California | publisher=Pittsburgh Business Times |date=January 3, 2014}}

U.S. Steel added facilities in Hamilton and Nanticoke, Ontario, Canada, with the purchase of Stelco (now U.S. Steel Canada) in 2007.{{cite web | url=http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/united-states-steel-corporation-completes-acquisition-of-stelco-inc-58980807.html | title=United States Steel Corporation Completes Acquisition of Stelco Inc. | publisher=PRNewswire | date=October 31, 2007}} These facilities were sold in 2016 to venture capital firm Bedrock Resources and has since been renamed Stelco. The blast furnace in Hamilton has not been reactivated as they were shut down by U.S. Steel in 2013, and since has been demolished. The blast furnace in Nanticoke is now operating.{{cite news|date=2017-11-03|title=Stelco Is Back With C$200 Million IPO to Fund Steel Expansion|newspaper=Bloomberg.com|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-11-03/canada-s-stelco-raises-c-200-million-in-ipo-priced-at-midpoint|publisher=Bloomberg News}}

The company opened a training facility, the Mon Valley Works Training Hub, in Duquesne, Pennsylvania, in 2008. The state-of-the-art facility, located on a portion of the property once occupied by the company's Duquesne Works, serves as the primary training site for employees at U.S. Steel's three Pittsburgh-area Mon Valley Works locations. This site also served as the company's temporary technical support headquarters during the 2009 G20 Summit.{{cite web |date=2008-07-24 |title=U. S. Steel Formally Dedicates New State-of-the-Art Training Center for Mon Valley Works |url=http://uss.mediaroom.com/index.php?s=43&item=531 |url-status=deviated |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111203094351/http://uss.mediaroom.com/index.php?s=43&item=531 |archive-date=2011-12-03 |access-date=2008-07-28}}

In January 2021, U.S. Steel fully acquired Big River Steel in northeast Arkansas.{{cite news |date= January 18, 2021 |url= https://www.kait8.com/2021/01/18/us-steel-completes-big-river-steel-acquisition/ |title= U.S. Steel completes Big River Steel acquisition |publisher= KAIT |accessdate= September 13, 2022 |quote= A little more than a year after announcing its intentions, United States Steel Corp. has acquired Big River Steel. The Pittsburgh-based company announced in a news release it closed acquisition of the remaining equity for approximately $764 million from cash on hand.}}{{cite news |date= January 19, 2021 |url= https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/u.s.-steel-x-wraps-up-the-acquisition-of-big-river-steel-2021-01-19 |title= U.S. Steel (X) Wraps Up the Acquisition of Big River Steel |publisher= Nasdaq |accessdate= September 13, 2022 |quote= United States Steel Corporation (X) recently announced the completion of the purchase of remaining equity of Big River Steel for roughly $774 million from cash on hand. The transaction conforms to customary closing conditions, including antitrust approval from the United States Department of Justice.}} In February 2022, U.S. Steel began construction of a new mill in Osceola, Arkansas, which is expected to be operational by 2024.{{cite news |date= February 10, 2022 |url= https://www.fox13memphis.com/news/local/us-steel-breaks-ground-osceola-creating-thousands-jobs/6NP675S54FAMZFRSP33JCSP6J4/ |title= U.S. Steel breaks ground in Osceola, creating thousands of jobs |publisher= WHBQ-TV |accessdate= September 13, 2022 |quote= United States Steel Corporation broke ground on a new steel mill in Osceola, Ark. that will bring thousands of jobs to the area…Project completion and full operation is expected by 2024.}} The new Osceola plant will be adjacent to U.S. Steel's Big River Steel. Together the facilities will be known as Big River Steel Works.{{cite news |date= February 10, 2022 |url= https://www.fox13memphis.com/news/local/us-steel-breaks-ground-osceola-creating-thousands-jobs/6NP675S54FAMZFRSP33JCSP6J4/ |title= U.S. Steel breaks ground in Osceola, creating thousands of jobs |publisher= WHBQ-TV |accessdate= September 13, 2022 |quote= The new plant will be adjacent to U.S. Steel's Big River Steel. Together, the two facilities will be known as Big River Steel Works, the release said. The new plant is expected to bring 900 plant jobs to the area, along with thousands of construction jobs.}}

In June 2022, U.S. Steel signed a non-binding letter of intent with SunCoke Energy that would allow SunCoke to purchase two blast furnaces from U.S. Steel's Granite City Works for use in pig iron fabrication.{{cite news |last=Coyne |first=Justine |date= June 28, 2022 |url= https://www.spglobal.com/commodityinsights/en/market-insights/latest-news/metals/062822-us-steel-to-produce-dr-pellets-in-minnesota-may-end-granite-city-steelmaking |title= US Steel to produce DR pellets in Minnesota, may end Granite City steelmaking |publisher= S&P Global |accessdate= September 13, 2022 |quote= Additionally, US Steel said it has signed a non-binding letter of intent with SunCoke for a potential arrangement in which SunCoke would acquire the two blast furnaces at US Steel's Granite City Works and build a 2 million st/year granulated pig iron production facility.}}

U.S. Steel once owned the Northampton and Bath Railroad.{{cite book |author=Northampton County Bicentennial Commission |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QE88AAAAIAAJ |title=Two Hundred Years of Life in Northampton County, Pa: Knight, J. and Hahn, B. Communications and transportation |publisher=Northampton County Bicentennial Commission |year=1976 |page=342 |access-date=24 February 2013}} The N&B was an {{convert|11|km|mi|adj=on|sp=us}} Shortline railroad built in 1904 that served Atlas Cement in Northampton, Pennsylvania, and Keystone Cement in Bath, Pennsylvania.{{cite book |author=Moody's Investors Service |author-link=Moody's Investors Service |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2Mo7AAAAMAAJ |title=Moody's Transportation Manual |publisher=Mergent FIS |year=1976}} By 1979 cement shipments had dropped off such that the railroad was no longer economically viable, and U.S. Steel abandoned the line. A {{convert|1.5|km|mi|adj=on|sp=us}} section of track was retained to serve Atlas Cement. The remainder of the right-of-way was transformed into the Nor-Bath Trail.{{cite book |last=Sexton |first=Thomas P. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2TtaAAAAYAAJ |title=Pennsylvania's Rail-Trails |date=2002-02-01 |publisher=Rails-to-Trails Conservancy, Northeast Regional Office |isbn=9780925794178 |page=112 |access-date=24 February 2013}} U.S. Steel also owned the Atlantic City Mine Railroad, whose {{convert|76.7|mi|km|adj=on}} line in Wyoming operated from 1962 until 1983 and served an iron ore mine north of Atlantic City, Wyoming.

Through its Transtar subsidiary, U.S. Steel also owned other railroads that served its mines and mills. Those properties included the Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range Railway in the iron-mining region of northeast Minnesota; the Elgin, Joliet & Eastern that served its Gary Works in northwest Indiana; the Birmingham Southern Railroad serving the U.S. Steel mill in Birmingham, Alabama; and the Bessemer & Lake Erie and Union railroads in western Pennsylvania that delivered iron ore and provided plant-switching services at its mill complex in Braddock, Pennsylvania and coke works in Clairton, Pennsylvania.{{cn|date=April 2025}}

U.S. Steel also owned a large Great Lakes commercial freighter fleet, under the Pittsburgh Steamship Company, that transported its raw materials from the Duluth area to Ashtabula, Ohio; Gary, Indiana; and Conneaut, Ohio. The laker fleet, the B&LE, and the DM&IR were acquired by Canadian National after U.S. Steel sold most of Transtar to that company. The ships are leased out to a different, domestic operator because of the United States cabotage law.{{cn|date=April 2025}}

In January 2025, U.S. Steel received the Equality 100 Award from the Human Rights Campaign Foundation (HRCF) after earning a perfect score on the Corporate Equality Index (CEI) for the fifth consecutive year.{{Cite press release |title=U. S. Steel Recognized With Human Rights Campaign's Equality 100 Award |date=2025-01-08 |publisher=United States Steel Corporation |url=https://investors.ussteel.com/news-events/news-releases/detail/710/u-s-steel-recognized-with-human-rights-campaigns |language=en |access-date=2025-01-29}}

The key trends for U.S. Steel are (as of the financial year ending December 31):{{Cite web |title=United States Steel Corp. - AnnualReports.com |url=https://www.annualreports.com/Company/united-states-steel-corp |access-date=2025-05-10 |website=www.annualreports.com}}

U.S. Steel is mainly owned by institutional investors. The 10 largest shareholders in late 2024 were:{{Cite web |title=United States Steel Corporation (X) Stock Major Holders - Yahoo Finance |url=https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/X/holders/ |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20250304232635/https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/X/holders/ |archive-date=2025-03-04 |access-date=2025-05-10 |website=Yahoo Finance |language=en-US}}

• BlackRock (11.72%)
• The Vanguard Group (9.08%)
• Pentwater Capital Management (8.18%)
• State Street Corporation (4.18%)
• Dimensional Fund Advisors (4.10%)
• Massachusetts Financial Services (2.40%)
• T. Rowe Price (2.12%)
• Donald Smith & Co (2.11%)
• KGH Ltd. (2.03%)
• Geode Capital Management (1.71%)

• Charles M. Schwab (1901–1903){{cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Charles-M-Schwab|title=Charles M. Schwab – American manufacturer|website=britannica.com|access-date=27 July 2018}}
• William E. Corey (1903–1911)
• James Augustine Farrell, Sr.– (1911–1932){{ref label|a|Note:His obituary says he was president starting in 1911.}}{{cite news |title= J. A. Farrell Dies. U.S. Steel Ex-Head. Laborer at 15. President for 21 Years of World's Largest Industrial Concern. Dean of 'Foreign Trade'. Broke All Shipments Records. Urged Economic Front With Britain to Insure Peace|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9A06E5DD1730E53BBC4151DFB5668388659EDE&legacy=true |newspaper=New York Times |date=March 29, 1943 |access-date=2016-07-05 }}
• William A. Irvin (19 April 1932 – 1 January 1938){{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Z14iAAAAIBAJ&dq=william%20irvin&pg=3713,67502|title=The Owosso Argus-Press – Google News Archive Search|work=google.com|access-date=17 April 2017}}
• Benjamin Franklin Fairless (1938–1952){{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_kD8EAAAAMBAJ |page=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_kD8EAAAAMBAJ/page/n37 36] |quote=benjamin franklin fairless. |title=LIFE – Internet Archive |date=1937-11-08 |access-date=2014-05-07|publisher=Time }}
• Clifford Hood (1952–1959)
• Walter Munford (18 May 1959 – 29 September 1959){{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=WUsNAAAAIBAJ&pg=3590,4211735|title=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – Google News Archive Search|work=google.com|access-date=17 April 2017}}
• Leslie B. Worthington (1959–1967)
• Edwin H. Gott (1967–1969)
• Edgar B. Speer (1969–1973)
• David M. Roderick (1973–1979)
• William R. Roesch (1979–1983)
• Charles A. Corry (25 January 1988 – 31 May 1989)
• Thomas J. Usher (1994–1995)
• Paul J. Wilhelm (1994–2001)
• Thomas J. Usher (2001–2003)
• John Surma (2003–2013)
• Mario Longhi— President & CEO of U.S. Steel (September 1, 2013 – May 10, 2017){{cite web|url=http://www.steelguru.com/international_news/US_Steel_new_CEO_expected_to_slash_more_costs/327207.html|title=US Steel new CEO expected to slash more costs|last=|work=steelguru.com|access-date=17 April 2017|archive-date=29 October 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131029231040/http://www.steelguru.com/international_news/US_Steel_new_CEO_expected_to_slash_more_costs/327207.html|url-status=dead}}
• David Burritt— President & CEO (May 10, 2017 – present){{cite web|url=https://www.cnbc.com/2017/05/10/us-steel-ceo-mario-longhi-steps-down-coo-david-burritt-to-lead-company.html|title=US Steel's CEO steps down as the company's challenges pile up; COO David Burritt takes over the top job|first=Tom|last=DiChristopher|website=CNBC|date=10 May 2017}}

• Elbert Henry Gary (1901–1927)
• J.P. Morgan Jr. (1927–1932)
• Myron C. Taylor (1932–1938)
• Edward Stettinius Jr. (1938–1940)
• Irving Sands Olds (1940–1952){{cite news|url=http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1963/03/05/page/B11/article/irving-s-olds-u-s-steel-war-chief-is-dead|title=Irving S. Olds, U.S. steel war chief, is dead|date=March 5, 1963|work=Chicago Tribune}}{{dead link|date=August 2018}}; {{cite news|url=https://chicagotribune.newspapers.com/image/374753268/?terms=IRVING%2BS.%2BOLDS%2C%2BU.%2BS.%2BSTEEL%2BWAR%2BCHIEF%2C%2BIS%2BDEAD|title=Irving S. Olds, U.S. steel war chief, is dead |date=March 5, 1963|work=Chicago Tribune|access-date=10 August 2018|url-access=subscription |page=49 |via=Newspapers.com}}{{cite web|url=http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/united-states-steel-corporation-history/ |title=History of United States Steel Corporation – FundingUniverse |website=Fundinguniverse.com |access-date=2017-04-17}}
• Benjamin Franklin Fairless— Chairman & CEO of U.S. Steel (1952–1955)
• Roger Blough— Chairman & CEO (3 May 1955 – 31 January 1969){{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=1DkxAAAAIBAJ&dq=fairless%20us%20steel&pg=4643,1817513|title=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – Google News Archive Search|work=google.com|access-date=17 April 2017}}
• Edwin H. Gott— Chairman & CEO (January 31, 1969 – March 1, 1973){{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Ow9SAAAAIBAJ&dq=blough%20us%20steel&pg=5859,4571075|title=The Press-Courier – Google News Archive Search|work=google.com|access-date=17 April 2017}}
• Edgar B. Speer— Chairman & CEO (March 1, 1973 – April 24, 1979){{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=2FwaAAAAIBAJ&dq=gott%20us%20steel&pg=4086%2C7183870|work=The Milwaukee Journal|date=28 Nov 1972|title=US Steel Names Chief|access-date=9 Aug 2018|author=}}{{Dead link|date=December 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
• David M. Roderick— Chairman & CEO (April 24, 1979 – May 31, 1989){{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=wM1RAAAAIBAJ&dq=speer%20us%20steel&pg=3829,3677516|title=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – Google News Archive Search|work=google.com|access-date=17 April 2017}}
• Charles A. Corry— Chairman & CEO (May 31, 1989 – July 1, 1995){{cite web|author=Daniel F. Cuff |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1989/01/31/business/business-people-president-to-succeed-roderick-in-usx-job.html |title=BUSINESS PEOPLE; President to Succeed Roderick in USX Job – New York Times |work=The New York Times |date=1989-01-31 |access-date=2014-05-07}}
• Thomas Usher— Chairman & CEO (July 1, 1995 – October 1, 2004){{Cite web | url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1995-04-26-9504260358-story.html | title=New Chairman and Ceo at Usx| website=Chicago Tribune| date=26 April 1995}}
• John Surma— Chairman & CEO (October 1, 2004 – December 31, 2013){{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=04VIAAAAIBAJ&dq=surma%20us%20steel&pg=5319,4748245|title=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – Google News Archive Search|work=google.com|access-date=17 April 2017}}
• David S. Sutherland— Non-executive Chairman of the Board (2014—present)

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• Brawley, Mark R. " 'And we would have the field': US Steel and American trade policy, 1908–1912." Business and Politics 19.3 (2017): 424–453.
• {{cite book|last=Brody|first=David|title=Labor in Crisis: The Steel Strike of 1919|publisher=University of Illinois Press|year=1987|isbn=978-0-252-01373-7|url=https://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=34200941|access-date=2017-09-17|archive-date=2012-07-16|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120716182531/http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=34200941|url-status=dead}}
• {{cite book|last=Burn|first=Duncan|title=The Steel Industry, 1939–1959: A Study in Competition and Planning|publisher=Cambridge University Press|location=Cambridge|year=1961|isbn=978-0-521-04385-4|url=https://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=94134586|access-date=2017-09-17|archive-date=2010-10-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101019174843/http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=94134586|url-status=dead}}
• {{cite book |last=Chernow |first=Ron |author-link=Ron Chernow |date=1999 |title=Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller Sr. |url= |location=New York City, United States |publisher=Vintage Books; Random House, Inc. |isbn=0-679-75703-1}}
• Hall, Christopher G.L. Steel phoenix: The fall and rise of the US steel industry (Palgrave Macmillan, 1997)
• {{cite encyclopedia |title=Phipps, William Arthur |encyclopedia=Press Reference Library, Volume 1: Notables of the West; Being the Portraits and Biographies of the Progressive Men of the West who Have Helped in the Development and History Making of this Wonderful Country |date=1913 |last= |first= |publisher=International News Service |location= |pages=137–138 |id= |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QZdOAQAAMAAJ |access-date=2024-02-22 |ref= {{harvid|INS|1913}} }}
• {{cite journal |last1=Meade |first1=Edward Sherwood |title=The Genesis of the United States Steel Corporation |journal=The Quarterly Journal of Economics |date=August 1901 |volume=15 |issue=4 |pages=517–550 |doi=10.2307/1884974|jstor=1884974 }}
• {{cite journal |last1=Meade |first1=Edward Sherwood |title=Capitalization of the United States Steel Corporation |journal=The Quarterly Journal of Economics |date=February 1902 |volume=16 |issue=2 |pages=214–232 |doi=10.2307/1882744|jstor=1882744 }}
• {{cite book|last=Misa|first=Thomas|title=Nation of Steel: The Making of Modern America, 1865–1925|publisher=Johns Hopkins University Press|year=1998|isbn=978-0-8018-6052-2}}
• {{cite book|last=Scheuerman|first=William|title=The Steel Crisis: The Economics and Politics of a Declining Industry|publisher=Praeger Publishers|location=New York|year=1986|isbn=978-0-275-92124-8|url=https://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=14201453|access-date=2017-09-17|archive-date=2010-10-28|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101028165914/http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=14201453|url-status=dead}}
• Seely, Bruce Edsall, ed. Iron and Steel in the Twentieth Century (Facts on File, 1994) 512 pp, an encyclopedia
• {{cite book |last=Skrabec |first=Quentin R. |author-link= |date=2010 |title=Henry Clay Frick: The Life of the Perfect Capitalist |url= |location=Jefferson, N.C. |publisher=McFarland & Co. |page= |isbn=978-0-7864-4383-3}}
• {{cite book|last=Urofsky|first=Melvin|title=Big Steel and the Wilson Administration: A Study in Business-Government Relations|publisher=Ohio State University Press|location=Columbus, Ohio|year=1969|url=https://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=97407297|access-date=2017-09-17|archive-date=2010-10-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101019155943/http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=97407297|url-status=dead}}
• {{cite book |last=Vivian |first=Cassandra |author-link= |date=2020 |title=Henry Clay Frick and the Golden Age of Coal and Coke, 1870–1920

|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=glLcDwAAQBAJ |location=Jefferson, NC |publisher=McFarland & Company, Inc. |page= |isbn=978-1-4766-3980-2}}

• {{cite book|last=Warne|first=Colston|title=The Steel Strike of 1919|editor=R.D. Cross|publisher=D. C. Heath|year=1963|url=https://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=10469556|access-date=2017-09-17|archive-date=2012-07-16|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120716182612/http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=10469556|url-status=dead}}
• {{cite book |last=Warren |first=Kenneth |author-link= |date=1996 |title=Triumphant Capitalism: Henry Clay Frick and the Industrial Transformation of America

|url= |location=Pittsburgh, PA |publisher=University of Pittsburgh Press |page= |isbn=0-8229-3889-8}}

• {{cite book|last=Warren|first=Kenneth|title=Big Steel: The First Century of the United States Steel Corporation, 1901–2001|publisher=University of Pittsburgh Press|year=2001|isbn=978-0-8229-4160-6|url=https://archive.org/details/bigsteelfirstcen00warr}}
• Warren, Kenneth. The American steel industry, 1850–1970: a geographical interpretation (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1987)
• {{cite web|url=http://www.uss.com/corp/company/profile/history.asp|title=History of U.S. Steel|publisher=U.S. Steel|access-date=2008-08-03}}

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• {{HAER |survey=PA-49 |id=pa0030 |title=U.S. Steel Corporation, Clairton Works}}
• {{HAER |survey=PA-49-A |id=pa1311 |title=U.S. Steel Corporation, Clairton Works, Blast Furnace Blowing Engine Building |link=no}}
• {{HAER |survey=PA-49-B |id=pa1312 |title=U.S. Steel Corporation, Clairton Works, 14-Inch Mill Engines No. 1 & No. 2 |link=no}}
• {{HAER |survey=PA-49-C |id=pa1315 |title=U.S. Steel Corporation, Clairton Works, 22-Inch Mill Engine |link=no}}
• {{HAER |survey=PA-115 |id=pa1778 |title=U.S. Steel Duquesne Works |link=no}}
• {{HAER |survey=PA-115-A |id=pa3339 |title=U.S. Steel Duquesne Works, Blast Furnace Plant |link=no}}
• {{HAER |survey=PA-115-B |id=pa3340 |title=U.S. Steel Duquesne Works, Basic Oxygen Steelmaking Plant |link=no}}
• {{HAER |survey=PA-115-C |id=pa3341 |title=U.S. Steel Duquesne Works, Electric Furnace Steelmaking Plant |link=no}}
• {{HAER |survey=PA-115-D |id=pa3342 |title=U.S. Steel Duquesne Works, Primary Mill |link=no}}
• {{HAER |survey=PA-115-E |id=pa3343 |title=U.S. Steel Duquesne Works, Fuel & Utilities Plant |link=no}}
• {{HAER |survey=PA-115-F |id=pa3344 |title=U.S. Steel Duquesne Works, Auxiliary Buildings & Shops |link=no}}
• {{HAER |survey=PA-115-G |id=pa3512 |title=U.S. Steel Duquesne Works, 22-Inch Bar Mill |link=no}}
• {{HAER |survey=PA-115-H |id=pa3513 |title=U.S. Steel Duquesne Works, Heat Treatment Plant |link=no}}
• [http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/collections/steel/ U.S. Steel Gary Works Photograph Collection, 1906–1971]
• [http://www.bigfloridacountry.com/freevideos/Contemporary%20Construction%20USS.wmv U.S. Steel Movie clip of the Contemporary Resort Construction, on BigFloridaCountry.com]
• [http://gdynets.atwebpages.com/210.htm The "World's Largest Plate Mill," formerly a part of U.S. Steel-Gary Works]
• [http://www.steelonthenet.com/kb/history-us-steel.html History of the United States Steel Corporation, 1873–2011]
• [http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/ead/htmldocs/KCL05342.html Guide to United States Steel Corporation. Training manuals. 5342. Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Martin P. Catherwood Library, Cornell University.]
• [https://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune500_archive/full/1959/ Fortune Magazine 1959 "Fortune 500" list]

• [http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HBS.Baker.EAD:bak00245 United States Steel Corporation photographs] at Baker Library Special Collections, Harvard Business School.

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