Stelco mills to temporarily close, 1,500 jobs affected
U.S. Steel Canada, formerly known as Stelco, is temporarily shutting down its Hamilton mill and closing most of its Lake Erie operations, affecting up to 1,500 jobs according to the company.U.S. Steel has already laid off close to 700 of the 1,700 hourly employees in Hamilton, where it shut down its blast furnace in November.
"It's devastating for the community," said Bill Ferguson, leader of the United Steelworkers union at the Lake Erie operations.
"For the local people this will be quite a blow. This plant, Lake Erie, has never shut down in its history."
The remaining operations at the Hamilton plant, including its steel finishing lines and coke ovens, will now be closed as well, said Rolf Gerstenberger, president of the United Steelworkers union at the plant.
James Morton
3 comments:
Incidence like this always remind me of what a US industrialist had to say about Japanese closed shop practises in auto trade;
any country willing to let it's primary manufacturing be swamped or swallowed up by foreign interests would eventually be at the mercy of foreign interests.
That's a lesson that fails our Liberals and Conservatives alike. Harper, takes delight in selling Canada out.
US Steel has laid off thousands of workers in the US in the last few months for the same reason they are laying off workers here, their customers are not buying as much steel. Twenty percent of the average car is made of steel.
The following is a clear demonstration of full frontal stupidity;
"Harper, takes delight in selling Canada out."
I am not so sure this statement is incorrect "Harper, takes delight in selling Canada out." but it may not have been the case with US Steel.
The sellout started long ago with Mulroney....
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