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It’s been a decade since the sudden shutdown of the ArcelorMittal Point Lisas, yet the human cost of the closure is still being felt by former employees.
Families remain financially strained, and many workers continue to wait for the separation benefits that were promised. President of the Steelworkers Union of T&T, Timothy Bailey, says the March 11, 2016, closure of the ArcelorMittal Point Lisas steel plant remains one of the most devastating industrial collapses in the country’s history, leaving hundreds of workers struggling a decade later.
Speaking on the tenth anniversary of the shutdown, Bailey described the manner in which the multinational company exited T&T as “the greatest crime against workers in the history of T&T.”
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