Economy‘Nowadays, you need a lot fewer people’: Laid-off Stelco workers are not alone as steel jobs disappear
U.S.-owned Stelco says its plan to lay off up to 500 workers in Hamilton and Nanticoke, Ont., is a temporary result of the Canada-U.S. trade war. But new technologies, shifting demand and tariff pressures are together shrinking the steel industry’s once-robust workforce.
‘Nowadays, you need a lot fewer people’: Laid-off Stelco workers are not alone as steel jobs disappear