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US Steel announces plans to lay off hundreds at southern Illinois mill
Fox business ^ | 11/29/2023 | Pilar Arias

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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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: illinois; layoff; southern; steel
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To: Nateman

It is a direct result of the recent UAW strike.


21 posted on 11/29/2023 4:47:58 PM PST by rwa265
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“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.


22 posted on 11/29/2023 4:52:45 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (“Occupy your mind with good thoughts or your enemy will fill them with bad ones.” ~ Thomas More)
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To: qaz123

“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.,


23 posted on 11/29/2023 4:55:15 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (“Occupy your mind with good thoughts or your enemy will fill them with bad ones.” ~ Thomas More)
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To: Lurker

Madison County, where Granite City is located, went for Trump 55-42 in 2020.

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Geographically Illinois is overwhelmingly red.


24 posted on 11/29/2023 5:49:08 PM PST by Graybeard58 (There are only two sexes but there are 57 different types of queers.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Perhaps they should transition the plant to artillery shells. It’s what good for American jobs.


25 posted on 11/29/2023 6:46:06 PM PST by ARW
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To: qaz123
I always disagree with that .
Carbondale
East St Louis
Peoria
Champaign and on and on ,
Are all Deomcrat strongholds.
The whole state of Il. Is infested with Demoncrats.
26 posted on 11/29/2023 7:00:45 PM PST by sausageseller (If you want to cut your own throat, don't come to me for a bandage. M, Thatcher)
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To: jerod

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.


27 posted on 11/30/2023 4:59:04 AM PST by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dreams)
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To: sausageseller

East Saint Louis hardly has any people left. Decaying buildings, empty lots, open fields where tens of thousands of people once lived.


28 posted on 11/30/2023 3:34:09 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (America Owes Anita Bryant An Enormous Apology)
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