Wednesday, January 14, 2009

MNDFL and USW continue to give mining companies free reign

Question: Why are taconite plants and iron ore mines shutting down if Barack Obama is going to be "greening" our economy?

Question: Why don't working people have a say in the decision making process?

Question: Why hasn't the USW organized a fightback demanding a cut in hours to thirty hour week at forty hours pay so everyone continues working?

Iron Range Club, CPUSA




http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2008/12/02/us_steel_to_layoff_3500_employees/


U.S. Steel to lay off 3,500 employees

by Bill Catlin, Minnesota Public Radio

December 2, 2008

St. Paul, Minn. — U.S. Steel is idling a taconite plant in Keewatin and two other facilities in Michigan and Missouri.

The company says about 3,500 employees will be laid off in total. Amid the global economic slowdown, prices for many steel products have fallen at double-digit rates over the past month.

In October, Cliffs Natural Resources announced it was cutting production at several Iron Range taconite plants.