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U.S. Steel Corporation (USS) has announced the layoff of approximately 3,500 employees at three facilities over the next several weeks. “As a result of the company’s continuing review and analysis of market conditions and their impact on customers’ orders, it is taking further steps to consolidate operations to safely and more efficiently meet customer demand including temporarily idling certain facilities,” USS said in a statement released on Tuesday. The facilities to be idled are the Great Lakes Works near Detroit, Mich.; the Granite City Works near St. Louis, Mo.; and the iron ore mining and pelletizing operation in Keewatin, Minn. The unions representing the affected employees have been notified, the company said, and notices will be filed pursuant to the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act. USS now “plans to temporarily concentrate production” at the Gary Works; the Mon Valley Works near Pittsburgh; the Fairfield Works near Birmingham, Ala.; and the Lake Erie Works in Nanticoke, Ontario. “We believe that our difficult decision to temporarily consolidate our production is a necessary response to current market conditions,” USS Chair John Surma said. In November the company announced the layoff of 500 represented employees across its domestic facilities—including 58 at Gary Works and 100 in Northwest Indiana—plus 177 more at the company’s Canadian facilities.
Posted 12/3/2008
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