Stelco to lay off 350 workers at Hamilton steel plant: union

Employees at the Hamilton steel plant run by Stelco Holdings Inc. will be laid off as the company plans to idle its finishing operations in the city.

Stelco said in a statement to Global News on Monday it was concentrating steel production at its Lake Erie Works plant in Haldimand, Ont.

The company said job opportunities at the Haldimand plant will be offered to laid off Hamilton workers.

“We expect that a significant number of employees affected by the infinite idle at Hamilton should be absorbed at Lake Erie Works,” the company said in a statement.

United Steelworkers Local 1005, which represents workers at the plant, told Global News it was told by the company that U.S. tariffs on steel, plus the lack of steel imports from other countries were behind the layoffs.