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Employee Benefits (Tables) | 3 Months Ended
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Mar. 31, 2015
Compensation and Retirement Disclosure [Abstract] |
Schedule of (Income) Charges Related to Benefit Plans | The following table presents the components of net periodic postretirement benefit cost (income) for the VEBAs and charges relating to all other employee benefit plans for the quarters ended March 31, 2015 and March 31, 2014 (in millions of dollars):
| Quarter Ended
| March 31,
| 2015 |  | 2014
VEBAs: |  |  |
Service cost | $ | — |  |  | $ | 0.6 |
Interest cost | 0.7 |  |  | 4.1 |
Expected return on plan assets | (1.1 | ) |  | (12.8 | )
Amortization of prior service cost | 0.7 |  |  | 2.8 |
Amortization of net actuarial loss (gain) | 0.3 |  |  | (0.3 | )
Total net periodic postretirement benefit cost (income) relating to VEBAs | 0.6 |  |  | (5.6 | )
Loss on removal of Union VEBA net assets | 492.2 |  |  | — |
Total VEBAs | 492.8 |  |  | (5.6 | )
Other employee benefit plans: |  |  |
Deferred compensation plan | 0.4 |  |  | 0.2 |
Defined contribution plans | 4.0 |  |  | 4.0 |
Multiemployer pension plans | 0.9 |  |  | 0.9 |
Total other employee benefit plans | $ | 5.3 |  |  | $ | 5.1 |
Total | $ | 498.1 |  |  | $ | (0.5 | )
Allocation of (Income) Charges Relating to Benefit Plans by Segment | (in millions of dollars – see Note 11):
| Quarter Ended
| March 31,
| 2015 |  | 2014
Fabricated Products | $ | 4.6 |  |  | $ | 4.6 |
All Other | 493.5 |  |  | (5.1 | )
Total | $ | 498.1 |  |  | $ | (0.5 | )

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