We recognise that ex-coal miners and steel workers can work in modern industrial centres.
But ministers have been urged to pay more urgent attention to the plight of the steel workers.
Steel workers, as opposed to steel companies, can be helped in ways that do not interfere with free trade.
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Mr Bush's decision to impose steel tariffs in March 2002 was designed, in part, to curry favour with steel workers.
Some of the protesters are old-fashioned protectionists, such as the American steel workers who want curbs on imports from Brazil.
Mr Bush may even owe his job to West Virginia's steel workers.
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And today, for the first time in years, the Big Three automakers are adding jobs and turning a profit and putting steel workers to work.
And if we have an issue on the national interest, let the nation pay for it, as opposed to the steel industry or the United Steel Workers.
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In fact, just recently, steel workers in Ohio and throughout the Midwest, Pennsylvania, are in a position now to sell steel to China because we won that case.
British steel workers, not surprisingly, feel aggrieved that Mr Mittal's American subsidiary wants the American government to impose steel import tariffs which would deal a blow to British exports.
He's a lifelong commercial fisherman ... a production operator in the oil fields of Alaska's North Slope ... a proud member of the United Steel Workers Union ... and world champion snow machine racer.
Steel mill workers earn weekly bonuses based on how many steel sheets or beams their group turns out.
The drums of the National Centre for Popular Music are being constructed from stainless steel by workers who have kept their clothes on.
There is some hope however, in the shape of a burgeoning renewable energy industry which utilises the skills of ex-steel and chemical workers.
Due to a cash crunch, contractors had stopped payments to cement and steel companies, migrant workers had not received wages for months, and projects to build thousands of kilometers of track had been put on hold.
The company's role is crucial: Its workers erect the steel for each floor of the towers at a rate of about one floor a week before other crews can follow.
The steel people are not in a good way: workers are losing their jobs, they say, because of a flood of imported steel from Japan, Brazil and Russia.
"Once Kia announced they were opening we've sold mostly steel-toed shoes for construction workers, " he said.
As well as guaranteeing what is still a good hourly wage, these agreements stifle innovation (through detailed work rules) and offer health-care benefits that are far more generous than those which the steel firms' white-collar workers get.
Pensions Minister Malcolm Wicks has told BBC Wales he did not not want to raise expectations of compensation for the 800 former Allied Steel and Wire (ASW) workers who lost their jobs and pension entitlements when the company collapsed in July 2002.
The region had been the soot-coated centre of Germany's coal and steel industries, but mining is being wound down and steel can be forged with many fewer workers.
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Workers and pensioners in the steel and airline industries, who account for fewer than 5% of participants in defined-benefit plans, have benefited from 70% of the agency's claims since 1974.
Steel mills that once needed 1, 000 workers can now do the same work with 100.
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Nucor Corporation, a steelmaker, gives its workers bonuses if they can produce steel more efficiently.
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Tata Steel gave generous pensions to the thousands of workers it got rid of.
This consortium is happy to walk away, after our workers have been providing fabulous quality steel that has made the company a lot of money.
It will reopen once the postal workers have received the fabric-covered steel gloves on order for them.
About a third of the highway construction jobs would be directly linked to the construction sites -- including on-site workers like Baxter, and off-site workers who manufacture construction materials such as steel and concrete.
Sticking to free-trade principles may mean losing some steel companies, but it need not mean abandoning their workers.
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Earlier this month, Corus, an Anglo-Dutch steel group, said it will lay off 6, 000 workers and cut production by one-fifth in Britain, where operations have been ravaged by sterling's strength.
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