A remarkable silence has settled over the United Steelworkers (USW) as Cleveland-Cliffs openly signals willingness to consider foreign investment — even after announcing layoffs and idling union plants across four states.
This is the same union that for months waged a strident campaign against Japanese ally Nippon Steel’s bid for U.S. Steel: President David McCall loudly criticized the deal as a threat to national security and American jobs, lobbying Congress and CFIUS for its defeat and demanding binding guarantees for pensions, plant retention, and union contracts.
In the end, the Biden administration blocked Nippon’s acquisition on national security grounds, a historic move substantiated by USW’s powerful rhetoric and coordinated Beltway pressure.
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