I want to laugh but this hurts so many people in those unions who didn't fall for this very obvious scam. And the morons at the top who are now lamenting it won't have a second of self reflection, either. Fuckin miserable!
I'm laughing because I've done my part. I have told everyone who would listen that the orange turd was an orange turd and like Cassandra they wouldn't listen to me.
I've got a big spoon and a great big empty bowl of schaudenfreude to fill, and I intend to gorge myself.
Stupid fucks get what they deserve and if the world goes down in flames it's on the rich to fix it.
Every good dictator knows, those who get you in power don't keep you in power. So trick them into getting you into power so you can help the powerful to keep their power and keep you in power.
The common denominator for these people seems to be "it'll happen to the others, but not to me". It's like there is something fundamentally twisted about their relation to alterity -that is, the others, anything that's outside of them. A lack of empathy, mirror neurons, some developmental issue ?
Their primary desire is to hurt others. Because of this they support those who will hurt people. They are just too stupid to comprehend that the people who get hurt usually includes them.
What I read is that US Steel doesn't feel there's a payback in investing in refurbishing the blast furnaces to keep them going, and want to move to other methods of steel production (apparently something called EAF is cheaper and more eco-friendly), and these would not be in Pittsburgh.
Nippon Steel OTOH still believes there is money in renovating and continuing to run the blast furnaces with the current staffing in place, so the unions who support the current workers are in favor of this.