They say that foreign producers are ‘dumping’ pipe, and they can’t compete at these plants.
It is a lot more than 180 jobs at the McKeesport works. There are ten times that many in other companies that coat, transport and provide supplies and services to the tubular products plant. All those are done too.
The irony is that the demand for the product has never been higher. Directional drillers and pipeline companies are going crazy trying to link up all these wells to the market.
Doesn’t sound good for the Irvin works either.
A couple of years ago they shut down the Fisher Body plant and tore down everything on the site.