Here’s What They’re Saying: Ohio Media Highlights Brown’s Successful Fight To Bring Jobs Back To Ohio Valley

WASHINGTON, D.C. - In August, U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) met with Ohio Steelworkers and manufacturers in Warren, OH and Weirton, WV to push for crackdowns on unfair trade practices and bring 600 jobs back to the Weirton-Steubenville area.

In Weirton, Brown visited the site of what will be a new transformer manufacturing plant that Cleveland-Cliffs announced last month, which WTRF 7 called "a move Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown helped make happen." Brown successfully pushed the Biden administration to fix bad energy regulations that would have hurt the domestic production of transformers. WTRF 7wrote that "Brown took on the Biden Administration and pushed for the Department of Energy (DOE) to change regulations that would prevent investments in American made transformers like this one from happening."

WTOV 9highlighted Brown's efforts to "bring people back to work," after the former Cleveland-Cliffs tin mill idled earlier this year, writing that "Brown, along with representatives from the United Steelworkers and Cleveland-Cliffs, was able to negotiate a deal to bring transformer production to the Ohio Valley."

In Warren, WKBN 27reported that Brown "is calling on the Biden Administration to put a stop to unfair trade practices in the aluminum extrusion industry," and the Tribune Chronicle noted that Brown "told a crowd of more than 100 union members that he has stood up to presidents from both political parties to change bad trade policies."

Brown joined aluminum manufacturers and extruders to push for a crackdown on unfair trade in the industry that's hurting Ohio workers, including Leetonia, Ohio-based Pennex Aluminum.

Read what they're saying about Brown's stop in Weirton:

The Intelligencer: Sen. Sherrod Brown Praised for Pushing New Policy That Will Help Future Weirton Transformer Plant

• "Management and union leaders at Cleveland-Cliffs Thursday praised U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, for influencing a change in federal regulations they said will support the development of a transformer production facility in the city."

• "Addressing the media and about a dozen Cleveland-Cliffs employees in attendance, Brown said he and U.S. Sens. Bob Casey, D-Pa., and Joe Manchin, I-W.Va., worked with steel leaders to push the U.S. Department of Energy to change 'a misguided rule' for transformer production."

• "Asked if his efforts clash with the energy platform of the Democrat Party, Brown said it's not the first time he's tangled with the current administration."

• "Brown said many employed by Cleveland-Cliffs in Weirton have been Ohioans, and even if they weren't, the transformer plant's development will benefit both states and the nation as a whole."

WTRF 7: "Ohio and WV steelworkers make the best steel in the world," Ohio senator says during visit in Weirton

• "Hundreds of steelworkers will be returning to work thanks to a $150 million investment by Cleveland Cliff's to repurpose their Half Moon warehouse into a transformer facility. A move Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown helped make happen. Brown spent his Thursday afternoon visiting with Cleveland-Cliffs leadership and USW Local 2911 members at the site of the new transformer plant, which is expected to bring 600 jobs back to the Ohio Valley. He spoke about the importance of keeping jobs and products American."

• "In April, the idling of Cleveland Cliff's devastated the region, costing nearly 1000 people their jobs. It was a ruling made by the International Trade Commission (ITC) that Senator Brown said was a failure by the government to protect American workers. Brown took on the Biden Administration and pushed for the Department of Energy (DOE) to change regulations that would prevent investments in American made transformers like this one from happening. He says he will disagree with members of his own party, especially when Ohioans are at risk."

WTOV 9: Brown praises job revival plan at closed Cleveland-Cliffs plant

• "Ohio U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown stopped by the shuttered Cleveland-Cliffs facility to announce a new plan to bring people back to work."

• "Eleven months after a previous visit to the Cleveland-Cliffs plant, Brown returned to bring a new outlook to the facility. After successfully lobbying the Department of Energy to change policy rules regarding investing in transformers, Brown, along with representatives from the United Steelworkers and Cleveland-Cliffs, was able to negotiate a deal to bring transformer production to the Ohio Valley."

• "In the wake of the push for more products made in America, Brown said he wants Cleveland-Cliffs to serve as an example of why he advocates for American manufacturing."

Read what they're saying about Brown's stop in Warren:

WKBN 27: OH Senator Sherrod Brown pushes to end unfair trade practices

• "Senator Sherrod Brown is calling on the Biden Administration to put a stop to unfair trade practices in the aluminum extrusion industry."

• "Brown was joined by local aluminum extrusion workers and manufacturers at the United Steelworkers Local 1375 Union Hall in Warren Thursday morning. He was speaking in support of antidumping and countervailing duty petitions filed by the U.S. Aluminum Extruders Coalition."

• "Brown says the industry is asking the government to take action against unfair trade practices from 14 countries including China."

WFMJ 21: Senator Brown visits Warren to call for action to counter trade practices that hurt Ohio aluminum workers

• "U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown made a stop in Warren Thursday morning to call on the Biden Administration to take action to counter trade practices that hurt Ohio workers in the Aluminum extrusions industry."

• "Brown made a stop at United Steelworkers (USW) Local 1375 in Warren in support of antidumping and countervailing duty petitions filed by the U.S. Aluminum Extruders Coalition including Leetonia-based Pennex Aluminum to the Department of Commerce. Brown is seeking relief for manufacturers and workers who can't compete for merchandise that is unfairly subsidized or dumped from 14 countries including China."

Mahoning Matters: Sherrod Brown joins union workers in Warren to seek help in aluminum extrusions industry

• "U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) joined local aluminum extrusion manufacturers and workers Thursday at the United Steelworkers Local 1375 in Warren to call on the Biden Administration to investigate and take action to counter what they call unfair trade practices that hurt Ohio workers in the aluminum extrusions industry."

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