I worked at Sheet and Tube where a lot of the video was filmed. I was also one of the last three employees to leave the plant in 1987 when after the last department operating after Black Monday in 1977, (the Seamless pipe mill, ) closed down. I wrote a book about what that was like and other experiences I had in my 43 year career at Sheet and Tube as well as WCI Steel in Warren, ( the plant many from Sheet and Tube transferred to after Sheet and Tubes’ closure. It’s called, “Steeltown Down,” and it’s available at Amazon Books if any of you are interested. I assure you if you pick up a copy you’ll get a much greater perspective of how hard and dangerous steelworkers’ jobs were and still are, and hopefully you’ll realize what a tragedy it is when another mill closes its’ doors..

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My dad spent 17 yrs in open hearth in sheet in tube also in late 90s i did a stint there an gary works an when i went in gary i saw a big map of y town with sheet tube on it but makes me sick what happened to our towns an coummuity after it left i am proud to have been in steel bizz for over 20 years an still in it in Cleveland..thanks for your video you get what i feel

I know it's sad to watch the American Empire spiral down to destruction is it's because it became an Empire and started giving its wealth to other places around the world and destroying its own citizenry it's sad to see what's happened to our great country awesome video good production peace out have a good day

It's sad that the US failed to protect vital industries including steel from predatory slave wages in other countries as well as their caring nothing about horrific air and water pollution in this cheap labor parts of the world. I've heard some blame the rebuilding efforts after WWII when new plants in Europe as well as Japan were so much cleaner and more efficient than US plants down to a failure by ownership to spent the money to upgrade facilities, along with the obvious, a lack of federal government trade laws designed to protect US vital industry. A rule requiring 25% of the steel used by company A must be domestic might have helped. I lived near two plants growing up, it was great fun to hike high enough to see both plants dumping slag at night. One plant closed in the 70's the other in the 80's, owners and labor were working their cans off to stay in business but Japanese, Korean, steel was simply too cheap. So many areas tied to a single industry have really suffered in Illinois, Indiana, California, Utah, Penn with mills closing not to mention the allied business mining coal and iron.