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UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
____________

FORM 8-K
CURRENT REPORT
 
PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE
SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
 

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported:  September 25, 2008)


North American Galvanizing & Coatings, Inc.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
 

Delaware
1-3920
71-0268502
(State or other
(Commission
(IRS Employer
jurisdiction
File Number)
Identification No.)
of incorporation)
   


5314 South Yale Avenue, Suite 1000, Tulsa, Oklahoma
74135
(Address of principal executive offices)
(Zip Code)


Registrant’s telephone number, including area code:  (918) 494-0964
 

 
NOT APPLICABLE
(Former name or former address, if changed since last report)
 
 
 
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ITEM 8.01 
OTHER EVENTS
 
One of the Company’s Tulsa galvanizing plants had certain production employees who were covered by a collective bargaining agreement with the United Steel, Paper and Forestry, Rubber, Manufacturing, Energy Allied Industrial and Service Workers International Union (the “Union”).  The agreement was set to expire on October 31, 2008.

After  several of the  employees  who were covered  by the agreement petitioned  the National Labor Relations Board  for a decertification vote,  a decertification election was scheduled to be held  on September  25 , 2008 .  However, on September 22, 2008, the Union filed a “disclaimer of interest” with the National Labor Relations Board, which denotes that the union is withdrawing it’s representation of the Company’s Tulsa employees.   Thus, the Union has been decertified and the employees covered by that agreement are no longer represented by the Union.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

SIGNATURES


Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.


 
 
 
 
  NORTH AMERICAN GALVANIZING & COATINGS, INC. 
     
       
Date:  September 29, 2008 
By:
/s/ Beth B. Hood  
    Beth B. Hood  
    Vice President and Chief Financial Officer