Sen. Brown applauds Cleveland-Cliffs opening facility in Weirton

Leaders around the region are showing their support after Cleveland-Cliffs’ announcement Monday that they’ll be building a 3-phase electrical transformer manufacturing plant in Weirton.

This comes after Cleveland Cliffs idled their Weirton tin mill back in April affecting hundreds of workers across the region.

U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) said he has been pushing the Department of Energy to adjust a transformer rule that he said would have affected this type of investment.

“They are fixing that rule, so several hundred people are going back to work in Weirton,” Brown said in a phone interview. “It’s my job always to advocate for Ohio workers. I always have. I always will.”

“Our government let down these skilled, dedicated Steelworkers by failing to enforce our trade laws – but we never gave up working to bring steel jobs back to this mill,” Brown elaborated in a press release. “I’ll always fight for Ohio workers and the Ohio Valley, and I’ll always stand up to any administration’s misguided policy that hurts workers and manufacturers.”

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