After leaving many workers without a job, The Cleveland Cliffs Plant in Weirton has a breathe of life that could bring back jobs to workers in the Ohio Valley.
USW 2911 President Mark Glyptis confirmed that him and Cleveland Cliffs CEO Lourenco Goncalves have been in talks to bring the Weirton Plant back to life as a transformer manufacturer to make electrical components.
Glyptis says they are in the very early stages but if the transformer manufacture ERMCO takes over the plant that it could bring 800-1,000 jobs back to Weirton. Glyptis called this a “miracle”
When word got out about the plant being reopened, Glyptis said 107 employees who worked at the Weirton plant and took jobs at other Cleveland Cliff facilities called him and asked when they could return to Weirton.
Glyptis says in talks with CEO Goncalves that Goncalves has stated that the people who worked at the Weirton plant are a great group of workers and that they have been weighing option on how to keep the plant open.
If the plant would open as a transformer manufacture Glyptis said it would most likely keep the Cleveland Cliffs name.
Glyptis also hopes that every single employee that lost a job would come back to the plant if would open as a transformer manufacture,
The Cleveland Cliffs plant officially went idle on April 20 with the union blaming an unfavorable International Trade Commission ruling.
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