Industrial workers know their unions can’t stop plant closures.
In These Times
STAUGHTON LYND
<https://inthesetimes.com/authors/staughton-lynd>JANUARY 25, 2021
Joe Marshall, Jr. and Joe Marshall Sr., amid the ruins of the demolished
Ohio Works, U.S. Steel in Youngstown, 1983. Closed by U.S. Steel in
1979, over 50,000 jobs disappeared from Youngstown in a 5-year span.THE
WASHINGTON POST
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//This is a response to the cover story of/In These Times’/January
issue,“Are Trump Voters a Lost Cause?
<https://inthesetimes.com/magazine/are-trump-voters-a-lost-cause>”///
/
Thank you for printing“Are Trump Voters a Lost Cause?” and thanks to
Mindy Isser for writing it. I offer a different perspective. It is
intended to continue a discussion, not to end one.
Youngstown, Ohio used to be one of the major steelmaking communities in
the United States. When Alice and I moved to the area in1976, many here
remembered the bloody confrontations of the1937Little Steel Strike. Yet
in2016Clinton narrowly carried Mahoning County (where Youngstown is
located) and in the2020presidential election, for the first time in
decades,it went red
<https://www.nbc4i.com/news/your-local-election-hq/trump-is-first-republican-since-1972-to-win-youngstowns-county/>.
Why have so many unionized workers supported Trump? An answer to this
question requires looking all the way back to the early steel contracts
made standard by the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO). Two
concessions made then render today’s unions powerless to stop
factory closures.
https://inthesetimes.com/article/youngstown-ohio-steel-mill-closings-union-vote
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