Worked all around that baby for 13yrs from the ore peir to the 68"hotstrip. Hard days and great memories Grandfather & Father worked there also. A millwrights wonderland. When ya got to the top of the key bridge (Day or Night shift) you could tell what kind of day it was gonna be by what stacks were running from the B.O.F/sinter strands/ ballmills/meltshop/casters/hotstrip/hot dip/pickle/tin & coldroll Great memories.
My grandmother ,grandfather, grandfather on my mother's side and my Dad all worked for Bethlehem Steel all for 30 to 40 years each in Baltimore those jobs just don't exist anymore its sad!
The need for those jobs don't exist anymore. Leading up to WWII the US did not have a large military so it was built from scratch using steel. After the war, everyone started buying cars and the need for steel continued. Today, we buy a lot of foreign cars and our buildup the the military isn't urgent. Not to mention like this guy said, the Unions owed retirees a lot of money and the company couldn't pay them. Unions have good and bad points, but the unreasonable demands put a lot of companies out of business.
Worked all around that baby for 13yrs from the ore peir to the 68"hotstrip. Hard days and great memories Grandfather & Father worked there also. A millwrights wonderland. When ya got to the top of the key bridge (Day or Night shift) you could tell what kind of day it was gonna be by what stacks were running from the B.O.F/sinter strands/ ballmills/meltshop/casters/hotstrip/hot dip/pickle/tin & coldroll
Great memories.
My dad worked there as Material Foreman in the Rod and Wire Mill.
I cant wait to hear it
People earning a very high rate of pay, for mostly unskilled work, thought it would last forever.
My grandmother ,grandfather, grandfather on my mother's side and my Dad all worked for Bethlehem Steel all for 30 to 40 years each in Baltimore those jobs just don't exist anymore its sad!
The need for those jobs don't exist anymore. Leading up to WWII the US did not have a large military so it was built from scratch using steel. After the war, everyone started buying cars and the need for steel continued. Today, we buy a lot of foreign cars and our buildup the the military isn't urgent. Not to mention like this guy said, the Unions owed retirees a lot of money and the company couldn't pay them. Unions have good and bad points, but the unreasonable demands put a lot of companies out of business.