My grandfather did 50 years in the Homestead mill, I remember the whistle blew and they all came out from that tunnel. Thank you for sharing this history.
I'm part of the third of six generations of Native Californians. But I have a maternal Great Grandmother who was Susqehanna and was born and raised in Homestead Pa. R.I.P. She lived to almost 100 years and never traveled any further away from Homestead than Chicago. I've always been curiously drawn to Western Pennsylvania and the steel mills, and I believe she is the reason.
I grew up in Jeannette Pa thirty miles east of Braddock. My father worked at the Edgar Thompson Steel Mill in Braddock for thirty years before he retired. He was a bricklayer reclining the coke ovens in the mill. As a youngster I can remember on payday my dad would take my mom, two younger brothers and me to Braddock to pick up his check. I can remember downtown Braddock the bank and my mom’s favorite store, the Salvation Army store. At that time in the early’60s downtown Braddock was always busy with the trolley cars and traffic. As a youngster I also played midget football against Braddock’s midget football team and they had some good teams. Also my family lived in Braddock for a short time before moving to Jeannette. It is sad to see Braddock be forgotten. Braddock is a major part of American history.
Documentary as art. What a wonderful moving and above all beautiful portrait of a city that was left for dead by corporate America and the sheer strength compassion and resilience of the people left to pick up the pieces. I’m from South Wales UK and can identify with every moment ❤
I live in Homestead a mile upriver from Braddock. It was home to a huge United States Steel plant. My father worked in OH(open hearth)5 as a crane operator. He also worked for J&l Steel in the Southside. I expected to work in the mill but by the time I turned 18 in the late 70's the downturn was well on its way. To this day these towns are a shell of their former selves. Yeah, we got the Waterfront shopping complex on the former site of USSteel but it is seperated from Homestead. I understand industries have cycles of boom and bust. The bust cycle here was really bad.
@@jimfoley8014 Drove a truck for 10 years and worked for a large parking company downtown for 23 years. Several other jobs when I was 16 to 25 or so. Worked on a garbage truck a couple years, a carwash, a foundry, limo driver, landscaping, roofing, and some things that were on the seedier side of society.
It's almost the same thing here up in Michigan with the Auto industry. It's a shell of its former self. When a plant closes ....it just wipes out the community.
The US government should impose tariffs on all foreign auto makers so that the auto industry can return to Detroit. We should also ban foreign auto makers from setting up manufacturing in the US. American energy, raw materials, and labor should be for American car manufacturers only.
@@MrCtsSteve people wouldnt believe the amount of tangible, sellable goods, that came from this 1 very small city, it was amazing, and they fucked it up
I appreciate the non traditional style of this doc....the diversity of comments even biased or negative ones also demonstrates an effectiveness of the material presented and this is obviously more relevant now than ever .... and be mature there's many sides to these issues and one thing clear is human greed needs to be put in check
Pretty well done documentary! I grew up only 8 minutes from that mill, and have actually now worked there for almost 20 years! Like some of the old timers I started out as a laborer shoveling coke dust and other materials for several years before moving onto better positions. Also went to school with the offspring of “Deedle” seen at Vincent’s, 1:26:00 marker. Safe for me to say roots still run kinda deep! Now the fate of USS hangs in the balance, as we feel threatened CEO David Burritt is going to shut us down if the sale to Nippon doesn’t go through. Needless to say a lot of us are going to be looking for new jobs soon (if not now!) for when the worst case may come to pass.
My dad worked 40 years in the Braddock Mills, paid with his life from mesothelioma, Andrew Carnegie is a filthy word ,I love Braddock , beautiful city ,known for fabulous shopping in fifties
It hurt Canadians too when the American steel belt became the American rust belt. Because where do you think all that iron ore came from? Shipped across from Canada. And it hurt every small town and business along the way. Both countries need to bring back honest hard work for a honest paycheck.
Nixon took the nation off the gold standard , did it so fat cats in washinton could sell unlimited US Gov bonds to china. In exchange for china buying US bonds , they let em import steel cheaper than US mills could make it. Gradually the companies had to close up, consolidate to 1 supermill in gary indiana. Along with the closings we lost the industrial base. Euclid movers from the euclid area of cleveland closed changed to gm/terex then most of that went overseas. Along with major heavy equipment came the loss of high paying machine shops. Soon everything was made overseas and gov't just kept selling US gov bond debt. Everybody wonders what happened. Was not globalization, was gov wanting to sell bonds to china. And we wonder why our politics are the way they are, Government always wants to spend more than they have, so now they are trapped, they have sell bonds to china.
As much as I love President Carter, and LOVE to blame Reagan for all of this, I am learning that Carter could've probably done something to stop the bleeding before Reagan's utter indifference to the unions pushed it over the edge.
I'm from north Braddock and it's crazy because I'm watching it and see my cousin Ricky lol. Tell me about yourself. He's from the hill, super funny, a great basketball player and a good dude 💯.
I worked for 10 years at a United States Steel plant in Bucks County, Pennsylvania (Fairless Works). When I started in 1998 there were 1000 employees left. When I lost my job in 2008 there was about 90 people left. At it's high point it employed about 10,000 people. Trust me, U.S.S. can't be saved.
@@SamMiller-x4f that reminds me of Saginaw Steering Gear ( GM parts plant up here in Michigan) when I hired in 99 they had 6,000 people . Down from 11,000 at its peak . When I transferred out in 06 it had under a thousand. It's sickening what's happened to this nation
Parts of these valleys still have extreme problems with air quality due to still operating steel and coke plants. These problems with air quality, and associated health problems like heart disease, can be very localized so that those high on the hill in the same neighborhood may have much less exposure than those low on the hill. The steel works is still there polluting the air but far fewer workers are required. It is a rough incomplete deindustrialization.
The cop/ firefighter (I don’t know which) is sincere as hell but wrong as hell. INNOVATION created the industrial revolution and built those mills. The Ice Man didn’t become the AC guy. Sears didn’t become Walmart. The guy shoeing horses didn’t become the auto maker. Industries become wedded to huge expensive infrastructures, and are not hungry, like a Gates/ Jobs/ Bezos. All of them saw a better mousetrap. That’s what Carnegie did! CEOs are crooks, imo. But CEO pay didn’t have Nucor take the lunch money of US Steel. It was complacency by the whole of US Steel and the fires in the belly of Nucor. And that’s being repeated for time immemorial. We should have innovated until nice shop towns were vibrant, and then just stopped? It’s creative destruction. Painful but true
Where I live people though the textile mills would last forever. They lasted a long time -- 150 years -- but then one day closed and moved down South ... and then to Asia.
One Of The greatest High School Football Teams In Pa. History.................... The Braddock Tigers............... Terrific Book .. " Striking Gridiron "............ A Towns Pride And A Teams Shot at Glory ......... During The Biggest strike In American History." One Of The Best Books ................... Ever .... History Of The steel Industry And A Truely Great High School Football Team
Several years ago while doing research for self study, I Googled "Steel Mills still in production" and Braddock was listed, along with a few others such as the old Kaiser mill in Fontana California, which had been downsized, refitted and renamed CST (California Steel Technologies) So I am very disappointed to now see Braddock in the title of this video regarding mill closures.
2024,going on 2025,this pulls at my heartstrings, born out of this Turtle Creek Valley, I live and breathe this pride!Affected me the first time I saw this; We are born out of the FURNACE .
Fetterman’s town. And now he’s on Capitol Hill😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢. This is why I don’t always believe him no matter what he says. He talks a big show. This is the Pittsburgh of my childhood. 😞. Things change-I get that but what happened to this area is in excusable and now they want to Jam Pack it with illegal immigrants. I believe Fetterman profited from this decay. This is just bloody sad!! 😭
Pretty strange that you would use footage of Youngstown blast furnaces being blown up. Makes sense though, considering that place was the real steel capital. Decent job though I guess 😂
Again, a tale of "Two cities" on top of which is, $$$$$ packed their steel and left. Maybe it's time they got ALL together and exchanged ideas. As an historian I may have seen the TOTAL picture of the town. Which I assume, was your intention?
I’m from McKeesport Pennsylvania. Next city over same situation but worst same with Claritin. My father was from Braddock originally. It’s a crap hole most of Pittsburgh is run down.
What they don’t mention though, is how much moral decay, alcoholism, and racism exists in those small towns. Small town mentality also hinders progress, and they sure don’t make it easy when it comes to trying to invest in them areas. Small town politics on one hand, drug epidemic on another, single mother households, high rates of divorce and suicide. You barely get to find someone fit to work without having to get hammered and show actual discipline.
I'm a descendant of John Frazier who was given this land before Braddock or George Washington came around he fought alongside George Washington and under both from my understanding. History has kind of erased him. I'm not sure how he is remembered, but I hope he is.
Incentivize new mon valley works employees to buy a home in the local communities with bonuses, tax credits, etc. oh wait, nvm. US Steel would never do anything to help communities
I worked in Latrobe PA steelmill for a year before Covid hit & we all got laid off. I DIDNT go back, they want to much from you, meaning practically live there & some did 7 days aweek. So how looks forward to anything like that 🤔. Lol. Dirty, dangerous
This Documentary doesn't point out that the Main Reason behind the Steel Making Industry is the fact that... The US Iron Ore reserves stand at 3 billion tons.... While Australia has 58 billion... Australia being close to China .. Korea .. Japan .. was best to supply these countries with Iron Ore and have them produce Cheaper Priced Steel and everyone Benefits ... Korea and Japan lack Iron Ore reserves and China has the best Coal for Steel Making. It's a Win .. Win.... And the US use minimum Domestic Iron Ore. .. it's a Resource Strategy. That is the Real Truth of why the Steel Industry shifted to East Asia.
@jerbo1978 actually 3 billion tons..... The info is my bad ... Australia had 51 billion tons of Iron ore reserves but it was updated to 58 billion tons....
The Guy At THe Print Shop? I Liked Him..Really , Really Liked Him....But That Was THE Gayest Shirt I Have Seen In My Life. Not Even On POLK Ave In The 80's Had I Seen Such A Gay Shirt!
Whoever did this documentary I'm a tell you the truth it was wack I'm boring and raised in Braddock you didn't have any people from Braddock to tell it like it is my family is one of the oldest families still around since 1920s and there's others still around I didn't see none of em keep up the bad work
All this video does is remind everybody. How stupid certain people are and how they have no unearthly idea how economy works. If they want to change they should make a change and not stand there and complain about it. There has to be something that those people have that. If they came together they could do something to bring some sort of economy back to their own lives. Instead they want the government to hand it to them.
The government sold them out; atleast they at one time were good employees and not just lazy malcontents wanting something for nothing like a lot of folks these days ( think that they are owed something; meanwhile they haven’t worked a day in their lives )
What do you suppose they do? Create funding from thin air, create a new industry, and renovate the city? You can’t place the entirety of any of this on a single thing. It’s a culmination of many things. A table missing a single leg isn’t gonna stand.
Its not a hard problem to solve. Simply make it easier for industry to operate in the country. The biggest hurdle is environmental regulations. There are millions of people that could easily be employed and return these areas and communities to what they were or better. We're all going to die. The utopia of an agrarian society is just that, a utopia. An unrealistic idea. Let industry thrive and people will thrive. Forget the bullshit ideology of perfectly clean and serene.
Story of many mills towns around Pittsburgh. My father was from there and it’s actually been revitalized a bit in the last 15 years. In the end, capitalism failed, unions failed but something is being born there once again
The amount of incorrect perception inaccurate facts and complete nonsense in this clip is staggering the first guy complained about how horrible it must have been for the European immigrants when they got here and your face with the heat the noise and the dirt of steel mills there wasn't even bigger steel industry in Germany before Carnegie got big let alone Belgium and France and England do you think those places were a delight they were absolutely no different it has nothing to do with the United States also why did the immigrants even come because those countries were way worse secondly the industrialists like Andrew Carnegie without Andrew Carnegie and those types those people would have been living off of potatoes grown in fields and that was it saying that they had to work there it was the Carnegie's and the others in industrial America like Rockefeller himself in the oil business that built these towns yes the towns are in Decay now but no one complained when they were growing and building libraries high schools and everything else those Industrials the industrialists and the workers sweater than them who's smarter than they made the prosperity oh and by the way the steelworkers ultimately by the 1960s and 70s were vastly overpaid and the Asians priced them out.
Describe overpaid to me, it seems when people get paid fair wages and benefits they suddenly get too much. Not everyone wants to work butchering chickens in Arkansas .
Good ol Boyz whining about good ol times only people greatly affected by this seems to be Caucasian, I believe in another decade these people wont be a memory
These people are living in the past talking about the hey days of the steel industry. That’s over and done and never coming back . Get some training learn a skill get out of there
There's been a lot of talk about how the steel mills should have been modernized, and yeah that is not wrong, but it's a moot point really. Japan was selling finished steel at a lower price per ton than the ingredients for a ton of steel cost. So just buying the materials needed would result in a loss for every ton of steel that they made. No modernization is going to erase that. Because the Japanese government was subsidizing them to do it. This is clearly a violation of all trade laws. Reagan never stopped them, perhaps the chance to take down the USW was too good to pass up. We saw how GM got huge givebacks from the UAW as good faith bargaining to keep the plants open while they were preparing to move production offshore. In case you don't believe me about Reagan, he went to Japan shortly after leaving office and gave a half an hour speech and got an honorarium of two million dollars. Now Reagan was a terrific speaker, no one can argue that. But if he was that good, why didn't they ever invite him back?
Modernization to keep pace with foreign competitors would have helped and some subsidies from the government to preserve such and important industry also; but most of all the greed of the unions ( and the corporations ) cost this country a critical component of strategic manufacturing
@@jamestingle5417 Read it again, the cost of buying the raw materials to make a ton of steel was more than the price of a ton of finished steel from Japan. No matter how efficient the mill is, it's impossible to make money.
My grandfather did 50 years in the Homestead mill, I remember the whistle blew and they all came out from that tunnel. Thank you for sharing this history.
Same here My grandfather work in Edgar Thompson homestead my other grandfather and my great aunt work in the Carlton coke works
I'm part of the third of six generations of Native Californians. But I have a maternal Great Grandmother who was Susqehanna and was born and raised in Homestead Pa. R.I.P.
She lived to almost 100 years and never traveled any further away from Homestead than Chicago.
I've always been curiously drawn to Western Pennsylvania and the steel mills, and I believe she is the reason.
I grew up in Jeannette Pa thirty miles east of Braddock. My father worked at the Edgar Thompson Steel Mill in Braddock for thirty years before he retired. He was a bricklayer reclining the coke ovens in the mill. As a youngster I can remember on payday my dad would take my mom, two younger brothers and me to Braddock to pick up his check. I can remember downtown Braddock the bank and my mom’s favorite store, the Salvation Army store. At that time in the early’60s downtown Braddock was always busy with the trolley cars and traffic. As a youngster I also played midget football against Braddock’s midget football team and they had some good teams. Also my family lived in Braddock for a short time before moving to Jeannette. It is sad to see Braddock be forgotten. Braddock is a major part of American history.
wtf are you talkin
Documentary as art. What a wonderful moving and above all beautiful portrait of a city that was left for dead by corporate America and the sheer strength compassion and resilience of the people left to pick up the pieces. I’m from South Wales UK and can identify with every moment ❤
Wonderful and moving piece of work. The slow pace reflects the slow death of that town.
Really well done documentary !! Thank you for this quality work !!
I live in Homestead a mile upriver from Braddock. It was home to a huge United States Steel plant. My father worked in OH(open hearth)5 as a crane operator. He also worked for J&l Steel in the Southside. I expected to work in the mill but by the time I turned 18 in the late 70's the downturn was well on its way. To this day these towns are a shell of their former selves. Yeah, we got the Waterfront shopping complex on the former site of USSteel but it is seperated from Homestead. I understand industries have cycles of boom and bust. The bust cycle here was really bad.
What did you end up doing for employment? Best wishes.
@@jimfoley8014 Drove a truck for 10 years and worked for a large parking company downtown for 23 years. Several other jobs when I was 16 to 25 or so. Worked on a garbage truck a couple years, a carwash, a foundry, limo driver, landscaping, roofing, and some things that were on the seedier side of society.
It's almost the same thing here up in Michigan with the Auto industry. It's a shell of its former self. When a plant closes ....it just wipes out the community.
The US government should impose tariffs on all foreign auto makers so that the auto industry can return to Detroit. We should also ban foreign auto makers from setting up manufacturing in the US. American energy, raw materials, and labor should be for American car manufacturers only.
I live in Pontiac, we used to make... Pontiacs😢, oh and busses, and pick ups , and semi trucks, and box trucks, and motor homes, damn😢
@@roaddawg3217 look what we have in it's place ...drugs , violence, poverty.... It's all directly related to losing our manufacturing sector.
@@magic-eric7328 ever see that doc Factories at War ?? Could we repeat that today ?? I'm not so sure .
@@MrCtsSteve people wouldnt believe the amount of tangible, sellable goods, that came from this 1 very small city, it was amazing, and they fucked it up
I appreciate the non traditional style of this doc....the diversity of comments even biased or negative ones also demonstrates an effectiveness of the material presented and this is obviously more relevant now than ever .... and be mature there's many sides to these issues and one thing clear is human greed needs to be put in check
Pretty well done documentary! I grew up only 8 minutes from that mill, and have actually now worked there for almost 20 years! Like some of the old timers I started out as a laborer shoveling coke dust and other materials for several years before moving onto better positions. Also went to school with the offspring of “Deedle” seen at Vincent’s, 1:26:00 marker. Safe for me to say roots still run kinda deep! Now the fate of USS hangs in the balance, as we feel threatened CEO David Burritt is going to shut us down if the sale to Nippon doesn’t go through. Needless to say a lot of us are going to be looking for new jobs soon (if not now!) for when the worst case may come to pass.
My Uncle did 35 years at Luken"s Steel, Coatesville, PA🙌🏾🙌🏾🤜🏾
My dad worked 40 years in the Braddock Mills, paid with his life from mesothelioma, Andrew Carnegie is a filthy word ,I love Braddock , beautiful city ,known for fabulous shopping in fifties
why filthy he gave away alot of hes money
Sad story, but not the people
lovely folks, wish them well
love from Rotterdam nl
It hurt Canadians too when the American steel belt became the American rust belt. Because where do you think all that iron ore came from? Shipped across from Canada. And it hurt every small town and business along the way. Both countries need to bring back honest hard work for a honest paycheck.
Nixon took the nation off the gold standard , did it so fat cats in washinton could sell unlimited US Gov bonds to china. In exchange for china buying US bonds , they let em import steel cheaper than US mills could make it. Gradually the companies had to close up, consolidate to 1 supermill in gary indiana. Along with the closings we lost the industrial base. Euclid movers from the euclid area of cleveland closed changed to gm/terex then most of that went overseas. Along with major heavy equipment came the loss of high paying machine shops. Soon everything was made overseas and gov't just kept selling US gov bond debt. Everybody wonders what happened. Was not globalization, was gov wanting to sell bonds to china. And we wonder why our politics are the way they are, Government always wants to spend more than they have, so now they are trapped, they have sell bonds to china.
And, eventually all that debt will come home to roost when the world figures out it can NOT ever be paid off.
As much as I love President Carter, and LOVE to blame Reagan for all of this, I am learning that Carter could've probably done something to stop the bleeding before Reagan's utter indifference to the unions pushed it over the edge.
@@theien5929 its financialization of the world economy look up peak oil and population overshoot
@@kidmack3556Lmfao yeah it's definitely Reagan's fault for something that was already in motion for over a decade.
I'm from north Braddock and it's crazy because I'm watching it and see my cousin Ricky lol. Tell me about yourself. He's from the hill, super funny, a great basketball player and a good dude 💯.
I used to live outside Bethlehem PA and would play poker at sands/ Windcreek casino it's amazing they turned the old steel mill into a casino
I worked for 10 years at a United States Steel plant in Bucks County, Pennsylvania (Fairless Works). When I started in 1998 there were 1000 employees left. When I lost my job in 2008 there was about 90 people left. At it's high point it employed about 10,000 people. Trust me, U.S.S. can't be saved.
@@SamMiller-x4f that reminds me of Saginaw Steering Gear ( GM parts plant up here in Michigan) when I hired in 99 they had 6,000 people . Down from 11,000 at its peak . When I transferred out in 06 it had under a thousand. It's sickening what's happened to this nation
Who wants filthy polluting jobs like that?
The CEOs should pay to clean this up
Why aren't you making them?!
@@dmacrolens
What's your problem bud?
@dmacrolens why aren't you
Here we go 😪
What CEOs?
Parts of these valleys still have extreme problems with air quality due to still operating steel and coke plants. These problems with air quality, and associated health problems like heart disease, can be very localized so that those high on the hill in the same neighborhood may have much less exposure than those low on the hill. The steel works is still there polluting the air but far fewer workers are required. It is a rough incomplete deindustrialization.
The cop/ firefighter (I don’t know which) is sincere as hell but wrong as hell. INNOVATION created the industrial revolution and built those mills. The Ice Man didn’t become the AC guy. Sears didn’t become Walmart. The guy shoeing horses didn’t become the auto maker. Industries become wedded to huge expensive infrastructures, and are not hungry, like a Gates/ Jobs/ Bezos. All of them saw a better mousetrap. That’s what Carnegie did! CEOs are crooks, imo. But CEO pay didn’t have Nucor take the lunch money of US Steel. It was complacency by the whole of US Steel and the fires in the belly of Nucor. And that’s being repeated for time immemorial. We should have innovated until nice shop towns were vibrant, and then just stopped? It’s creative destruction. Painful but true
Where I live people though the textile mills would last forever. They lasted a long time -- 150 years -- but then one day closed and moved down South ... and then to Asia.
One Of The greatest High School Football Teams In Pa. History.................... The Braddock Tigers............... Terrific Book .. " Striking Gridiron "............ A Towns Pride And A Teams Shot at Glory ......... During The Biggest strike In American History." One Of The Best Books ................... Ever .... History Of The steel Industry And A Truely Great High School Football Team
That pizza looked good!!
Vincent's Pizza, Forrest Hills, on Ardmore Blvd, Good Eats 😁
Several years ago while doing research for self study, I Googled "Steel Mills still in production" and Braddock was listed, along with a few others such as the old Kaiser mill in Fontana California, which had been downsized, refitted and renamed CST (California Steel Technologies)
So I am very disappointed to now see Braddock in the title of this video regarding mill closures.
Comical to think people really believe this is coming back somehow
Yeah. That's funny.
Dolt....
Nice Doc..A Bit Slow...Plodding ..But I Think Filmakers Try To Make Points By Slowing Things Down...I Would Watch At 1.50 .
What book is he reading from in the beginning?
When was this filmed? It looks too me about 2012. Any opinions?
2013-13
2024,going on 2025,this pulls at my heartstrings, born out of this Turtle Creek Valley, I live and breathe this pride!Affected me the first time I saw this; We are born out of the FURNACE .
Fetterman’s town. And now he’s on Capitol Hill😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢. This is why I don’t always believe him no matter what he says. He talks a big show. This is the Pittsburgh of my childhood. 😞. Things change-I get that but what happened to this area is in excusable and now they want to Jam Pack it with illegal immigrants. I believe Fetterman profited from this decay. This is just bloody sad!! 😭
The counseling part at 55:00 is humiliating
So is the condescending tone at 1:05:04, you can tell the woman really has an inflated sense of self.
Pretty strange that you would use footage of Youngstown blast furnaces being blown up. Makes sense though, considering that place was the real steel capital. Decent job though I guess 😂
Again, a tale of "Two cities" on top of which is, $$$$$ packed their steel and left.
Maybe it's time they got ALL together and exchanged ideas. As an historian I may
have seen the TOTAL picture of the town. Which I assume, was your intention?
I’m from McKeesport Pennsylvania. Next city over same situation but worst same with Claritin. My father was from Braddock originally. It’s a crap hole most of Pittsburgh is run down.
It the truth I live in mackeesport
Bro, the C&O canal starts in Mckeesport, Pa. A great adventure starts at your doorstep. Get a Bicycle. Ride that canal. The adventure will begin.
I'm from the area also, it's so depressing driving through these towns knowing what they used to be.
I live in Pittsburgh and most of it is not run down.
What they don’t mention though, is how much moral decay, alcoholism, and racism exists in those small towns. Small town mentality also hinders progress, and they sure don’t make it easy when it comes to trying to invest in them areas. Small town politics on one hand, drug epidemic on another, single mother households, high rates of divorce and suicide. You barely get to find someone fit to work without having to get hammered and show actual discipline.
I'm a descendant of John Frazier who was given this land before Braddock or George Washington came around he fought alongside George Washington and under both from my understanding.
History has kind of erased him.
I'm not sure how he is remembered, but I hope he is.
Did anyone notice the Komatsu hoe? Is it any wonder what happened?
Metal dust is very, very bad for you. I witnessed safety ignored situations when dust filled air should of been evacuated.
Incentivize new mon valley works employees to buy a home in the local communities with bonuses, tax credits, etc. oh wait, nvm. US Steel would never do anything to help communities
America was always under a spell
CEO s are responsible but so are the Unions. Everyone wanted too much.read the book, "And the wolf finally Came," please.
I worked in Latrobe PA steelmill for a year before Covid hit & we all got laid off. I DIDNT go back, they want to much from you, meaning practically live there & some did 7 days aweek. So how looks forward to anything like that 🤔. Lol. Dirty, dangerous
This Documentary doesn't point out that the Main Reason behind the Steel Making Industry is the fact that... The US Iron Ore reserves stand at 3 billion tons.... While Australia has 58 billion... Australia being close to China .. Korea .. Japan .. was best to supply these countries with Iron Ore and have them produce Cheaper Priced Steel and everyone Benefits ... Korea and Japan lack Iron Ore reserves and China has the best Coal for Steel Making. It's a Win .. Win.... And the US use minimum Domestic Iron Ore. .. it's a Resource Strategy. That is the Real Truth of why the Steel Industry shifted to East Asia.
3 million tons huh? 😅
@jerbo1978 actually 3 billion tons..... The info is my bad ... Australia had 51 billion tons of Iron ore reserves but it was updated to 58 billion tons....
The Guy At THe Print Shop? I Liked Him..Really , Really Liked Him....But That Was THE Gayest Shirt I Have Seen In My Life. Not Even On POLK Ave In The 80's Had I Seen Such A Gay Shirt!
8 hr shift?
Billionaires and governments win, and regular people lose
Whoever did this documentary I'm a tell you the truth it was wack I'm boring and raised in Braddock you didn't have any people from Braddock to tell it like it is my family is one of the oldest families still around since 1920s and there's others still around I didn't see none of em keep up the bad work
All this video does is remind everybody. How stupid certain people are and how they have no unearthly idea how economy works. If they want to change they should make a change and not stand there and complain about it. There has to be something that those people have that. If they came together they could do something to bring some sort of economy back to their own lives. Instead they want the government to hand it to them.
The government sold them out; atleast they at one time were good employees and not just lazy malcontents wanting something for nothing like a lot of folks these days ( think that they are owed something; meanwhile they haven’t worked a day in their lives )
What do you suppose they do? Create funding from thin air, create a new industry, and renovate the city?
You can’t place the entirety of any of this on a single thing. It’s a culmination of many things.
A table missing a single leg isn’t gonna stand.
Shame on UPMC for tearing down Braddock Hospital....Effing Monopoly!!!!
Braddock is now drugs and crime
Its not a hard problem to solve. Simply make it easier for industry to operate in the country. The biggest hurdle is environmental regulations. There are millions of people that could easily be employed and return these areas and communities to what they were or better. We're all going to die. The utopia of an agrarian society is just that, a utopia. An unrealistic idea. Let industry thrive and people will thrive. Forget the bullshit ideology of perfectly clean and serene.
2013-2024 going on 2025 and nothing has changed in almost 12 years.
Who's here right after the 2024 election?
An intro would of been nice not some guy reading a poem, because I was lost watching this couldn't be brought into context
make all of those towns part of the city of pittsburgh, so they share a tax base with Google, UBER ETC>
But you continue to republican.
Braddock is run by far-left democrats and has been for a very long time.
Reagan ate this country in the 80"s
People insist on voting against their best interests.
And voting democrat would make a wonderful difference? Those old time Dems are gone. Joe was a failure and you believed him?
Story of many mills towns around Pittsburgh. My father was from there and it’s actually been revitalized a bit in the last 15 years. In the end, capitalism failed, unions failed but something is being born there once again
Capitalism didn't 'fail'.
It succeeded magnificently and built the cities.
The greedy, lazy, stupid people failed themselves.
Everything is going according to the bible.
Bullshit. Leave the Bible at church where it belongs.
The amount of incorrect perception inaccurate facts and complete nonsense in this clip is staggering the first guy complained about how horrible it must have been for the European immigrants when they got here and your face with the heat the noise and the dirt of steel mills there wasn't even bigger steel industry in Germany before Carnegie got big let alone Belgium and France and England do you think those places were a delight they were absolutely no different it has nothing to do with the United States also why did the immigrants even come because those countries were way worse secondly the industrialists like Andrew Carnegie without Andrew Carnegie and those types those people would have been living off of potatoes grown in fields and that was it saying that they had to work there it was the Carnegie's and the others in industrial America like Rockefeller himself in the oil business that built these towns yes the towns are in Decay now but no one complained when they were growing and building libraries high schools and everything else those Industrials the industrialists and the workers sweater than them who's smarter than they made the prosperity oh and by the way the steelworkers ultimately by the 1960s and 70s were vastly overpaid and the Asians priced them out.
Describe overpaid to me, it seems when people get paid fair wages and benefits they suddenly get too much. Not everyone wants to work butchering chickens in Arkansas .
Good ol Boyz whining about good ol times only people greatly affected by this seems to be Caucasian, I believe in another decade these people wont be a memory
8hr. Shift ????? 😮😮
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These people are living in the past talking about the hey days of the steel industry. That’s over and done and never coming back . Get some training learn a skill get out of there
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There's been a lot of talk about how the steel mills should have been modernized, and yeah that is not wrong, but it's a moot point really. Japan was selling finished steel at a lower price per ton than the ingredients for a ton of steel cost. So just buying the materials needed would result in a loss for every ton of steel that they made. No modernization is going to erase that.
Because the Japanese government was subsidizing them to do it. This is clearly a violation of all trade laws. Reagan never stopped them, perhaps the chance to take down the USW was too good to pass up. We saw how GM got huge givebacks from the UAW as good faith bargaining to keep the plants open while they were preparing to move production offshore. In case you don't believe me about Reagan, he went to Japan shortly after leaving office and gave a half an hour speech and got an honorarium of two million dollars. Now Reagan was a terrific speaker, no one can argue that. But if he was that good, why didn't they ever invite him back?
Modernization to keep pace with foreign competitors would have helped and some subsidies from the government to preserve such and important industry also; but most of all the greed of the unions ( and the corporations ) cost this country a critical component of strategic manufacturing
Wasn't Japan see my reply about Nixon and the gold standard.
Reagan wasn't the Saint everyone makes him out to be.
@@jamestingle5417 Read it again, the cost of buying the raw materials to make a ton of steel was more than the price of a ton of finished steel from Japan. No matter how efficient the mill is, it's impossible to make money.
@@corncob_say this was in the 1980s, it was Japan