The main drag of Midland is still lined with signs and supporters for the local steelworkers who continue to walk the picket line. It’s been nearly two months now since roughly 250 Allegheny Technologies Inc. employees were locked out of the company’s Midland plant amid a standstill over a new contract. U.S.W. 1212 Local President Tony Tipsic tells Beaver County Radio that the company refuses to talk to the union and that the A.T.I. Steelworkers have been awarded unemployment benefits due to the lockout.