The three operations cover the group's big flat products operation, based at Taranto in southern Italy; stainless steels, based at Terni in Umbria.
Taranto is now a public relations assistant at the conservative Heritage Foundation here, where Meese also is employed.
The Bagnoli plant at Naples has been closed for two years but occupied for most of this time by workers hoping the plant could be saved. At Taranto 170 workers employed by sub-contractors forced the plant almost to shut down on two days last week.
Under the settlement to the suit announced Tuesday, the university agreed to give Taranto $93 in back pay for the two-week suspension and remove the reference to his suspension from his university records.