工会领袖罗恩·韦尔斯（Ron Wells）表示，Stelco控股公司在上周末结束时解雇了85名员工。他说，就在前一周，该公司发出了90份解工通知。
Stelco Holdings laid off 85 employees at the end of last week, according to union leader Ron Wells. The week before, he says the company issued 90 layoff notices.
尽管这家美资钢铁制造商坚称，其在安大略省汉密尔顿和南蒂科克裁员最多500人的计划，只是加美贸易战的暂时后果，但新技术和需求动态正与关税相关的逆风协同作用，压缩该行业曾经强劲的劳动力队伍。
While the U.S.-owned steelmaker 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.
根据加拿大统计局的数据，加拿大初级钢铁制造行业的直接就业人数已从2003年的近2.9万人滑落至截至7月的约1.4万人。
According to Statistics Canada, direct employment in Canada's primary steel manufacturing industry has slipped from nearly 29,000 workers in 2003 to about 14,000 workers as of July.
美国钢铁工人联合会1005分会主席、拥有47年Stelco工作经验的老员工韦尔斯表示，当他刚开始在这家公司工作时，仅Stelco一家的劳动力就拥有约1.4万人。
Wells, president of United Steelworkers Local 1005, and a 47-year veteran of Stelco, says the workforce at Stelco alone was about 14,000 strong when he started working for the company.
韦尔斯接受加拿大广播公司新闻（CBC News）采访时表示：“如今要生产一吨钢铁，需要的人手少多了。现在的流程精简多了。”根据美国监管文件，Stelco的所有者、总部位于俄亥俄州且是北美最大扁钢生产商的克利夫兰-克利夫斯公司（Cleveland-Cliffs），其总员工人数在2024年12月31日至2025年12月31日期间，从约3.0万人缩减至约2.5万人。
"To make a ton of steel nowadays, you need a lot fewer people," Wells told CBC News. "Now, it’s a lot more streamlined." According to U.S. regulatory filings, the total workforce of Cleveland-Cliffs — the Ohio-based owner of Stelco and North America’s largest producer of flat-rolled steel — shrank from about 30,000 employees to roughly 25,000 between Dec. 31, 2024, and Dec. 31, 2025.
今年的裁员潮包括在密歇根州迪尔伯恩裁员约600人，当时克利夫兰-克利夫斯闲置了一座大型高炉。首席执行官洛伦索·贡萨尔维斯（Lourenco Goncalves）将其归咎于来自北美汽车制造商的疲软需求。
This year of job cuts included about 600 layoffs in Dearborn, Mich., as Cleveland-Cliffs idled a massive blast furnace. CEO Lourenco Goncalves blamed soft demand from North American automakers.
此举促使该公司在明尼苏达州又进行了600人规模的裁员，以使公司的原矿产量与高炉下降的需求相匹配。
The move prompted another 600 cuts in Minnesota to align the company’s raw ore output with reduced blast furnace demand.
9月下旬，在美国总统唐纳德·特朗普签署对来自加拿大的某些钢铁和铝进口产品征收最高达50%关税的行政令三个月后，Stelco宣布在其位于安大略省的两处运营点裁员最多500人。
In late September, three months after U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order applying up to 50 per cent tariffs on certain steel and aluminum imports from Canada, Stelco announced up to 500 layoffs at its two Ontario operations.
这引发了该公司与联邦政府之间围绕Stelco根据《加拿大投资法》在加拿大维持一定数量员工义务的当前冲突。
That provoked the current clash between the company and the federal government over Stelco’s obligations under the Investment Canada Act to maintain a certain number of workers in Canada.
被解雇的 Stelco 钢铁工人对公司未来及其自身命运感到焦虑：“我们被出卖了” 但 Stelco 的劳动力并不是安大略省唯一面临工作不确定性的钢铁工人群体。
Laid-off Stelco steelworkers stressed about company's future — and their own: 'We're being sold out' But Stelco’s workforce isn’t the only cohort of Ontario steel workers facing job uncertainty.
去年12月，阿尔戈马钢铁公司（Algoma Steel）向约1000名员工发出了裁员通知，约占其员工总数的近三分之一。这家总部位于安大略省苏圣玛丽的公司将出口竞争力被摧毁归咎于美国关税，但这一宣布恰逢其加快向更环保、劳动力需求更少的电弧炉生产过渡的计划。
Last December, Algoma Steel issued layoff notices to about 1,000 workers, nearly a third of its workforce. While the Sault Ste. Marie, Ont.-based company blamed U.S. tariffs for crushing its export competitiveness, the announcement coincided with plans to fast-track its transition to greener and less labour-intensive electric-arc furnace production.
此前，安赛乐米塔尔加拿大长材公司（ArcerolMittal Long Products Canada）于2025年6月宣布永久关闭其位于汉密尔顿的帕克代尔（Parkdale）拔丝厂。该公司是全球第二大钢铁和矿业公司安赛乐米塔尔（ArcelorMittal S.A.）的子公司。
That came after ArcelorMittal Long Products Canada announced the permanent shutdown of its Parkdale wire-drawing facility in Hamilton in June 2025. The company is a subsidiary of ArcelorMittal S.A., the world’s second-largest steel and mining company.
公司发言人让-菲利普·格鲁（Jean-Philippe Grou）当时对加拿大广播公司新闻表示：“尽管我们做出了最大努力，但持续的经济挑战、加拿大钢铁进口的增加以及市场状况，使我们明确需要减少运营足迹。”
"Despite our best efforts, the ongoing economic challenges, increased steel imports in Canada and market conditions made it clear that we needed to reduce our operating footprint," company spokesperson Jean-Philippe Grou told CBC News at the time.
呼吁解决廉价外国钢铁进口问题 在加拿大通讯社（The Canadian Press）获得的一封致工业部长梅兰妮·若利（Mélanie Joly）的信中，Stelco总裁保罗·西蒙（Paul Simon）抱怨称，冷轧钢和涂层钢的进口量占了这些产品市场份额的45%。
Calls to address cheaper foreign steel imports In a letter to Industry Minister Mélanie Joly obtained by The Canadian Press, Stelco president Paul Simon complained that imports of cold-rolled and coated steel accounted for 45 per cent of market share for those products.
韦尔斯表示，渥太华在保护加拿大生产商免受更廉价外国进口产品冲击方面做得还不够。他希望提高关税配额，以阻碍与加拿大供应竞争的外国钢铁的流入。
Wells says Ottawa is not doing enough to shield Canadian producers from cheaper foreign imports. He wants tariff-rate quotas increased to impede the flow of foreign steel competing with Canadian supply.
他说：“来自海外的产能过剩了。它稀释了加拿大的价格。” 研究公司伍德麦肯齐（Wood Mackenzie）的一项新预测显示了美国钢铁行业与加拿大钢铁行业的对比。该预测预测，今年美国钢铁生产将增长约4.5%，尽管美国的Demand（需求）在萎缩。高级研究分析师蒂亚戈·韦斯波利（Tiago Vespoli）看到了等待加拿大的截然不同的现实。
"There’s too much capacity coming from offshore," he said. "It dilutes the price in Canada." A new forecast from research firm Wood Mackenzie shows the contrast between the steel industry in the U.S. versus Canada. It predicts U.S. steel production will rise about 4.5 per cent this year, even as demand in America shrinks. Senior research analyst Tiago Vespoli sees a different reality in store for Canada.
他在周四写道：“美国钢铁关税提高到50%，已经显著扰乱了既定的贸易流，造成了一种局面：美国钢铁生产商可以增加产量和市场份额，而加拿大生产商则面临着出口量和产能利用率不断增长的压力。”
"The increase in U.S. steel tariffs to 50 per cent has significantly disrupted … established trade flows, creating a situation in which U.S. steelmakers can increase production and market share, while Canadian producers face growing pressure on export volumes and capacity utilisation," he wrote on Thursday.
韦尔斯表示，镀锌钢现货价格最近的上涨令他受到鼓舞，Stelco目前正在汉密尔顿逐步转向这种产品。
Wells says he’s encouraged by a recent uptick in spot prices for galvanized steel — a product Stelco is pivoting away from in Hamilton.
他说：“在加拿大，镀锌钢现在售价为每吨1800加元，这比六个月前有了极大改善。这就是为什么我们发现这些裁员以及冷轧厂和涂层钢厂的闲置相当令人困惑。涂层产品的价格似乎开始反弹。这就是为什么我们认为这次裁员部分是为了促使卡尼（Carney）采取行动并达成贸易协议。”
"Galvanized steel is now at $1,800 a ton in Canada, which is a vast improvement from six months agoThat’s why we find these layoffs and the idling of the cold mill and coated [steel] quite puzzling. It seemed like [prices for] coated products were starting to rebound. That’s why we believe this layoff is partially to get Carney to act and get a trade agreement," he said.
他说：“我们认为这是为了让特朗普在中期选举中看起来表现良好，证明他的关税正在起作用，加拿大钢铁工正在被解雇。” 贡萨尔维斯公开支持特朗普的关税议程，这一事实引发了若利和总理马克·卡尼（Mark Carney）的直言不讳的批评。
"We think it’s to get Trump to look good in the midterms, that his tariffs are working, Canadian steel workers are getting laid off." Goncalves has openly supported Trump’s tariff agenda, a fact that has prompted blunt criticism from Joly and Prime Minister Mark Carney.
随着克利夫斯与渥太华之间的法庭冲突看起来越来越有可能发生，韦尔斯表示，他仍然抱有希望，认为Stelco将召回被解雇的工人。他说：“老实说，很难再相信他们的话了。”
With a courtroom clash between Cliffs and Ottawa looking increasingly likely, Wells says he continues to hold onto hope that Stelco will recall the workers being laid off. "It's hard to take them at their word anymore, to be honest with you," he said.
他说：“我坚信这些裁员是暂时的。我认为这种贸易局势很快就会得到解决，我们的成员将重返工作岗位。”
"I strongly believe these layoffs are temporary. I think this trade situation will get sorted out soon and our members will get back to work."