Posted on 06/04/2014 6:22:14 PM PDT by RS_Rider
Three years after it resumed operation of the last vestige of the old National Tube Works, U.S. Steel is pulling the plug on pipemaking in McKeesport.
McKeesport Mayor Michael Cherepko said he is “extremely disappointed” with U.S. Steel Corp.'s announcement on Monday that it will idle indefinitely its McKeesport Tubular Operations effective in early August.
“I think it is devastating for the entire Mon Valley region,” the mayor said shortly after receiving word about the shutdown of plants in McKeesport and Bellville, Texas, two of 10 plants in the Pittsburgh-based steelmaker's Tubular Products division.
The announcement came 60 days before the idling of the two plants because of requirements in the federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification or WARN Act. It is a cost-cutting move in line with a company initiative called the Carnegie Way, which U.S. Steel previously said will yield $290 million in benefits this year.
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Oh wow...I have driven past that old place dozens of times (I think it’s been torn down though).
This is just the tip of the proverbial ice burg floating up the Mon River....the troika of high USS union wages; union shop deficiencies (who cares if we make bad tubes—we still get paid!); and soon to come ENDING of fracking/oil production as we have had for last few years (can we all say Gov Wolfe!) will all serve to END any manufacturing or boom in SW PA. Again.
Wolfe views himself (IMO) as a mini me Dem of Andrew Cuomo up in NY...not a Corbett fan, but will gladly pinch my nose and cast my vote for him (oil natural gas jobs) in Nov. With the Dem take over of Harrisburg they I fear is coming we can “celebrate” same sex marriage along the greenie converted bike trails that used to serve as the rail lines of prosperity.
IIRC a locomotive co. was going to build high speed trains (Budd, maglev?) in a plant along the river.
What ever happened with that?
I worked in those mills in McKeesport and I’m very surprised it lasted this long.
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