From Steel to Rust: The Collapse of America's Steel Industry

[songforamericans]

remember Nixon's and Albrite's trip to China......

to sell our Nations industry out.........

they opened the flood gates for our demise........

20 years later Americas industrial cities were ghost towns.....

now its 30 years later.........

look what they have done........

[BioHunter1990]

I bitterly blame the USW. Their greedy fingers ran a piece of American history into the dirt. Bethlehem Steel Co. BUILT this nation. Literally.

[strobx1]

@BioHunter1990 Quit exclusively blaming the Unions. It is a well known fact that Bethlehem Steel built golf courses, refused to modernize & reinvest in the company. Then they totally mismanaged the company. Then there's NAFTA & so called "free trade"which put US Steel making at a disadvantage. If you worked around 3000F heat+ dust & dirt, You'd want a decent wage to compensate for litterally putting your life on the line. Some day you "Union Bashers" will wake up and smell the coffee!

[strobx1]

@strobx1 Of course that won't happen until you health care, wages, decent working hours gets eliminate and you get tired of be a slave to some over paid CEO greedy rich bastard! The Union Bashers take ALL the union benefits and do not pay one dime of union dues! If you think a company will give you these things out of the goodness of their heart, you're smoking dope!