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For the editor:

Within the next month, the Sammis plant in Stratton will close, which employs around 350 workers. It was also recently reported that the Cleveland-Cliffs pewter plant in Weirton was planning to lay off 300 workers.

The reason for the release of the workers – illegal dumping – of tin imports, dumped from Canada, China, Germany, the Netherlands, South Korea, Taiwan, Turkey and from the United Kingdom

If you are a former steelworker, you may remember illegal dumping during the Clinton administration – the American steel industry was ruined and left in shambles when he left office.

So who is responsible for all of this? The federal government – ​​the Department of Commerce – in its mission statement says “…the Department strives to stimulate the economic competitiveness of the United States, strengthen national industry, and stimulate the growth of quality jobs in all the country’s communities. The department is the voice of business within the federal government and, at the same time, the department touches and serves every American every day.

Gina Rainondo, the Secretary of Commerce, should have to answer why they allow the illegal dumping.

United Steelworkers: Cleveland Cliffs is a union. The union leadership must have been aware of this illegal dumping and remained silent about it. Why pay a membership fee to a group you’re not interested in? This also applies to the Sammis factory – when researching unionized employees at the Sammis factory, it appeared that many are unionized employees.

Representatives in Congress: Our elected officials, we send them there to find out what’s going on in the state and to act quickly when other nations violate our laws, but apparently not, they all react like deer in the headlights, being completely surprised.

The state government is always ready to retrain workers, spending taxpayers’ money to send them to vocational schools to seek employment, which in most cases is half of what they earn. Has anyone ever asked if they wanted to be retrained? They had to like their job to apply there. Why do they need to change their livelihoods?

Local Government: You would think that being the closest people would go to anyone involved in these job losses and find answers and fight for their constituents. To me, this is the most sickening of all.

There’s a lot of blame to be had, but no one will pay for it, just the employees, their families, and the American people.

Merica Petrella

Steubenville

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