[El Sordo]

While losing your job is always a sucky deal, this is nothing special.

The company is being stupid by reducing expenses?

Are they gearing up for the imposed price increases in steel that they are about to face?Just what do they do?

Should a company be coerced or encouraged to hire worker A at a higher cost to worker B?

[Straight Vermonter]

I guess that is the steel industy's thank you to America for the big tariff Bush gave them.

[Cyber Liberty]

Well, offhand, I'd say your friend is....F***ed!

[Texaggie79]

I thought the steel industry wanted the tarrifs so it would cost more to get foreign steel.

Doesn't matter though. It may seem harsh, but if a job can be served better overseas, so be it, that leaves the higher skill jobs for us. Just making a company do something that will hurt them financially just to keep American workers is turning a blind eye to the consumers, thusly the rest of the nation, including those original American workers.

[RLK]

Every time I say it's stupid and counterproductive, I take gas from idiots here. The company here saves money, but ask yourself how the people they are hiring at 1/3 wages are going to be a market for American manufactured products.

[Liberatio]

The jobs that are being cut are the designers, drafters, and detailers that do not have much of a reation to the cost and purvhasing of steel. There are some security risks to the company's clients as well. Foreigners get to look at plans for construction, how things are done within the building, and expose structural vulnerabilities(sp). Your arguments taked about purchasing steel and cutting cost, but American jobs and the saftey of American workers, as well as a companies infastructure.

[Liberatio]

The part of my friend is a matter of life happening. It happens everyday. The part that concerns me is the reasons for it and their unforseen consequences.