Posted on 11/29/2023 3:16:58 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27
U.S. Steel issued layoff warnings to 1,000 employees of its Granite City, Illinois, mill this week, saying they expect to fire 60% of them due to indefinite idling of iron and steelmaking operations at the facility.
The warnings rocked the local community, which will be severely impacted by the move.
"You’ve got these small businesses that depend on that income to come in, and these businesses want these people to come in and spend their money," Edith Arnold, a woman whose relative has worked at the mill for more than 30 years, told local KTVI. "You shut them down, what are they going to do?"
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It is a direct result of the recent UAW strike.
“You shut them down, what are they going to do?”
Well, they could learn to code...except tech companies have laid off a quarter million people.
Pelosi said we could all become poets after Obamacare passed, to that opportunity is always there.
Or they could learn to mine coal. Jobs are booming there.
“Most of Illinois is about as RED as it can get. A few densely populated areas, Chicago being the worst, ruin it for everyone else.”
Also true in California, Oregon, Washington, and Colorado.,
Madison County, where Granite City is located, went for Trump 55-42 in 2020.
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Geographically Illinois is overwhelmingly red.
Perhaps they should transition the plant to artillery shells. It’s what good for American jobs.
The Chinese make low grade structural steel. We make the very best, tool steel, medical, stainless etc. Also, we re-roll used steel like rails into finished product. In terms of technology, we are still the best.
East Saint Louis hardly has any people left. Decaying buildings, empty lots, open fields where tens of thousands of people once lived.
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