US Steel to lay off more than 350 at Indiana tin mill

Associated Press ^ | Jan 22, 2015 2:02 PM EST

[Olog-hai]

U.S. Steel says it will lay off more than 350 workers in East Chicago, Indiana, as it plans to temporarily close its tin mill.

Company spokeswoman Sarah Cassella tells The Times in Munster that layoffs will begin in mid-March. She declined to comment on how long the plant will be closed for.

Cassella says low-priced tin product imports have hurt domestic business. …

[9thLife]

You know what? He can eat these lyrics.

[Red Badger]

I do not understand...............

[9thLife]

Aside from being typically leftist in its orientation, the song pissed off people from Allentown because, as they said, “we don’t just lay around in our beds waiting for work...”

[dfwgator]

Came for The Godfather reference, goes away happy.

[Red Badger]

Typically leftist by calling the ‘union people’ snakes that crawled away?

As for the people of Allentown, they eventually gave him the Key to the City as a reward:

From Wiki:

Reaction to song in Allentown
Allentown, Pennsylvania, for which the song is named, 2010

The song was met with mixed responses in Allentown. Some criticized the song as degrading and full of working-class archetypes.[4] But when Joel returned to the area following the album’s release and the song became a hit record, he was awarded the key to the city by Allentown’s mayor, who praised it as “a gritty song about a gritty city.”

Before a sold-out crowd at Stabler Arena in neighboring Bethlehem, People magazine reported that Joel was greeted enthusiastically with a five-minute standing ovation as he closed his third encore with “Allentown.” At the end of the song and extended ovation, Joel was greeted with even more sustained applause when, in an apparent defense of the song’s meaning, he pointedly told the Allentown crowd, as is his wont at the end of every one of his concerts: “Don’t take any shit from anybody.”[5]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allentown_%28song%29

[Fightin Whitey]

Came for the Godfather reference, goes away happy.

"You gotta go, you gotta go."

[9thLife]

Guess you schooled me. All I remember from that time was the aforementioned uproar but you know what, I was a headline junkie in those days. I believed what I read. And I stopped reading (and caring) sometime between 1982 and whenever he got that standing ovation.

Though I did see the show (in Florida) and do remember him saying, "Don't take any sh1t from anybody..."

[sparklite2]

” low-priced tin product imports have hurt domestic business”

Tin is crowding steel out of the market?

[sparklite2]

Okay. It was a tin mill shuttered. Never mind.

[Oliviaforever]

Michael, we're bigger than U.S. Steel.

[central_va]

How quickly we throw away our infrastructure and our fellow Americans......

[AFreeBird]

Yea, it sucks. Big time. We’ve lost our “can do” mind set and the hand wringers and entitled class have taken over.

[Spktyr]

EPA. So much for that.

[Spktyr]

Hard to be can do when the EPA will arrest and charge you for crimes for even thinking about doing, and entrenched labor laws mean unions can extort you even before you open your doors.

I have little sympathy for those that supported unions and historically voted for Democrats.

[central_va]

The South is all Right-To-Work and a new mill would be non union. As for the EPA; well I am willing to keep 1000 people employed for the additional cost of tin, probably pennies per ton, worth it. It is either have the mill here in the USA or get extorted with welfare. No you cant just take away wealth creation and replace it with - nothing, that is not sustainable and will cause a Communist revolution at the least.

[Spktyr]

The EPA has already stated that they WILL NOT ALLOW any new tin plants to be opened.

[central_va]

I did a yahoo search on “EPA blocks new tin plants” and got nothing.

[Chode]

And the union people crawled away and there it is...

[Spktyr]

The last tin smelter in America was shut down in Texas in 1989 courtesy of the EPA. The last tin mine was closed in 1993 courtesy of the EPA. This ‘tin mill’ produced stamped steel sheets that were then electroplated with tin. The EPA hates electroplating and tries to shut it down wherever it can; in California the plating business is pretty much dead due to EPA inspired laws and the EPA itself.

More info here:
http://water.epa.gov/scitech/wastetech/guide/electroplating/index.cfm#final

And the recent fun crap they passed down regarding other plating, such as chrome:

http://www.epa.gov/ttnatw01/chrome/chromepg.html

Bottom line: No new industrial electroplating plants.

[Red Badger]

When I lived in Ft. Lauderdale, in the late 70’s early 80’s, the family that moved into the apartment next door to me came from Allentown. I was good friends with their son and daughter, 17 and 20, at the time. They moved to Florida because there were no jobs and no prospect of any. The steel industry was shutting down and people were moving away. This was the same period that this song was written.

I later moved from there and one of the job interviews I went on was in Harrisburg, PA not far from there. I interviewed at Three Mile Island nuclear plant...................