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Years ago, I worked in the steel industry. I find it ironic that the first reaction from many of the union leaders in the steel industry is to ask for another pay raise. Only in the steel industry can a union worker fall behind foreign competition and maintain the best wages and benefits of any industry.
When these tariffs expire, you will once again hear the cry for more tariffs and unfair competition. How will pay raises for union workers increase productivity? Only until the union decides it wants to create jobs will this cycle end. The days of the large mills are over. Tariffs only forestall the inevitable. Flexibility is the key–not support for the obsolete big mills.
