NEXT GENERATION OF WORKERS PREPARES TO TAKE THE HELM

摘要

The faces of steel are getting younger. In recent years, the median age of a Steelworker at America's mills has been estimated to be in the 50- to 55-year-old range. The dramatic slowdown in the American steel industry prevented some new hiring and caused layoffs, leaving the mills to depend mostly on workers with experience of 30 years or more. But as the steel industry rebounds, many tenured workers are retiring, and the inevitable changing of the guard is taking place. Younger workers - some with college degrees - are discovering that a modern steel mill provides jobs in advanced manufacturing that also come with good pay and benefits.