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International Trade committee  No, you give up your leverage. The fact is that you have the second round coming up. There was a commitment from President Trump that if we get a free trade agreement, which they did the morning he tweeted out that we're back to a good normal relationship, the tariffs would come off.

November 1st, 2018Committee meeting

Ken Neumann

International Trade committee  Yes, we've had layoffs up in the Soo. There have been layoffs that we know of and, as some of the gentlemen have spoken about here, a lot of our smaller companies are at the brink of making some decisions on layoffs. You just heard the news this morning or last night, there's a company that is 45 minutes from here that is closing its facility.

November 1st, 2018Committee meeting

Ken Neumann

International Trade committee  We hear the complaints that it's a very complex process. Like you say, there are a lot of applications. I know of two particular situations, one in Hamilton and one in Kingston, that have actually.... We've signed letters of support to make sure that they get those exemptions. My understanding is that one of them has been approved.

November 1st, 2018Committee meeting

Ken Neumann

International Trade committee  Let me back up. I can tell you that I've talked to a lot of our workers as well and the fact of the matter is that this deal was signed, but what was left out was that we were abandoned on steel and aluminum. It was a commitment right from day one.

November 1st, 2018Committee meeting

Ken Neumann

International Trade committee  In its entirety, it probably has some good provisions, but there are also some provisions we're concerned about, as I said in my submission. Through their acknowledgement, with regard to the national security threats, you can now impose clause on 232. I can tell you what's going to come next.

November 1st, 2018Committee meeting

Ken Neumann

International Trade committee  Thank you. On behalf of the members in the steel and aluminum industry, I want to thank you for this opportunity to speak to the committee on the crisis that becomes more intense with each passing day the tariffs are in place. With me is Jamal Shaker from our national office research team.

November 1st, 2018Committee meeting

Ken Neumann

International Trade committee  As I said earlier, for a lot of the companies that we deal with, there's no such thing as “Canadian”. They operate on both sides of the border, so there's no doubt there's going to be an effect. If you look at the auto industry, there are some parts that may be made here. They don't have the facilities in the United States, so that's going to have an effect on the auto industry.

June 26th, 2018Committee meeting

Ken Neumann

International Trade committee  First of all, our view is—and I think our membership are truly on the same page as we are, as, I'm sure, a lot of the employers are too—that the tariffs should have been imposed at midnight on the same day the U.S. imposed tariffs. There is no secret about that. We've always been very firm.

June 26th, 2018Committee meeting

Ken Neumann

International Trade committee  The federal government made the announcement. We also represent the softwood lumber industry and the workers across the country, so it's the same kind of devastation for a lot of these communities that have been affected. In many cases there have been loan guarantees to the employers.

June 26th, 2018Committee meeting

Ken Neumann

International Trade committee  No, there's been no reach out to us. We've submitted letters to the Prime Minister, Minister Freeland, and I believe also Minister Morneau in regard to our concerns. First of all, there are numerous other elements in regard to the transshipment. In that same letter, we also addressed the fact that we're very much concerned about making sure that where people will be affected, they have those supports.

June 26th, 2018Committee meeting

Ken Neumann

International Trade committee  I think it's ridiculous. We've been on record for some time that that is the most ludicrous thing we have heard. Canada is not the threat. For decades that's been proven. Ivaca is an American company. In Canada there is no such thing as a Canadian steel industry. All the steel producers today are foreign-owned.

June 26th, 2018Committee meeting

Ken Neumann

International Trade committee  We've been preaching for a long time in regard to dumping by various countries, and not just China. Our union has been very proactive. We have the right, in the United States, to file complaints as the trade union representing the workers and the communities. We don't have that access here.

June 26th, 2018Committee meeting

Ken Neumann

International Trade committee  Yes, I agree. We've been working at this, as I said a moment ago, for many, many years. This is not something new to us. Our union has done close to 100 trade cases in the United States and we've only lost six. This is on tire, rubber, glass, you name it—the whole gamut. Fortunately in Canada we're moving towards that and we want to make sure that we have the ability to protect our members and the communities they work in.

June 26th, 2018Committee meeting

Ken Neumann

International Trade committee  Thank you very much for the opportunity to speak today. In Canada, United Steelworkers represents 225,000 active members. We are the primary union of the steel and aluminum sectors, representing tens of thousands of members in those sectors across the country. As an international union representing workers in both Canada and the United States for the past 76 years, the Steelworkers strongly oppose the May 31 presidential proclamation on the extended section 232 tariffs of 25% on steel and 10% on aluminum.

June 26th, 2018Committee meeting

Ken Neumann

International Trade committee  There are numerous examples across the country of the steel industry's demise. We see it in Atlantic Canada. We've seen some of those places disappear. It has devastated those communities. These are engine drivers. I was in Saskatchewan where Ipsco is now Evraz, a Russian company.

March 9th, 2017Committee meeting

Ken Neumann