‘Nowadays, you need a lot fewer people’: Laid-off Stelco workers not alone as steel jobs disappear

While U.S.-owned Stelco insists its plan to lay off up to 500 workers in Hamilton and Nanticoke, Ont., is only a temporary consequence of the Canada-U.S. trade war, new technologies and demand dynamics are working in concert with tariff-related headwinds to compress the industry’s once-robust workforce.