Of course the God/King won't tell them that when he's using them for props during his stop in the Burg today. He'll blather about about the props' "good-paying jobs" and raising the minimum wage---which ever so conveniently also raises USW wages.
He'll neglect to tell the props that the EPA's assault on coal--all so he can say he's "acting on climate change"--will eliminate the steel industry, and their 'good-paying jobs". You can't make steel without coal, more specifically, coke. The steel industry didn't start here for iron ore, there isn't any. It began here because there is a lot of coal and three rivers to move it on..
The USW union bosses won't mind, though. They've diversified. They now even get dues from the people making these, in Pittsburgh's Strip District. Too bad they can't power a steel mill, or a coke battery, or even a AA-battery now that I think of it. Fuck Obama!
