I work in the Warren coke plant now, it’s a old mill but a solid income and I’m proud to be a 3rd generation mill worker
@moondog1621
8 жыл бұрын
The reason I want to work in a mill: to follow in the footsteps of my grandpa
@beckolajones6640
8 жыл бұрын
Pusherside door man, I was a lid man then sprayed ovens in the heating gang. When men were men for sure!
@paulkramer9666
Жыл бұрын
You sealed the doors by spraying them with the asbestos? We used to call it "soup".
@pkramerable
6 жыл бұрын
I worked in By-Products and, on the coke ovens and, in coal handling in the middle to late 1970's.I also worked in the P-1 and, P-2 bar and coil mills. I made pretty good money but I could tell that it wasn't going to last. All of the hourly workers were mad at the salaried foremen and, the foremen were mad at them. It was easy to see that the company, when it became LTV, was not investing money in the mills. Instead, they were opening production facilities in South America and other locations around the globe. Multi-national corporations weren't a new thing, but they were soon to become the future under the Reagan administration and every other since. Globalization has brought us to where we are today, with no job security or sense of hope for a future that doesn't include a lowered standard of living for the majority of Americans. It's important to see things for what they are, and to not entertain some romanticized vision of the past (even if it feels good), so that you're not blind sided in the future.
@kunaljagotra8905
2 жыл бұрын
How is it like to to work in byproducts? I got a job but hesitant to go for it because of the risks involved with harmful gases
@HotRod8625
Жыл бұрын
I'm a union worker and will say corporate and union greed killed the US steel mills.
@WAL_DC-6B
Жыл бұрын
@@HotRod8625 And all those domestic "mini mills' scattered across the U.S with their relatively low paid steel workers.
@paulkramer9666
Жыл бұрын
@@kunaljagotra8905It's dirty. Wear your personal protective equipment-PPE. 👍
@paulkramer9666
Жыл бұрын
@@HotRod8625That was a big part of it.
@cruisinkruty4405
Жыл бұрын
Republic steel/then LTV steel. I was at the coke plant. Yard labor,coal handling,lids,byproducts cleaner. worked plant1 and 2.....
@MichaelMance
7 жыл бұрын
Very interesting video. Thanks!
@Mck499
Ай бұрын
Honestly crazy to think theres only 4 active steel mills in the whole mon valley now, compared to the dozens of steel mills that were active for how long
@CoalBreaker
22 күн бұрын
Stop voting for Democrats
@bobgray1226
Жыл бұрын
wish I worked there back in the day... my older brother did
@TronVila
5 ай бұрын
You think you did lol
@ah19001
8 жыл бұрын
turn formen sparrows point
@tommygrubbs2053
3 ай бұрын
The attitude that caused this place to be such a dump is also the attitude that bore some responsibility in the decline of domestic steel
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