Unfair Silicon Metal Imports Hurt IUE-CWA Members

IUE-CWA joined Globe Specialty Metals, Inc., and the Steelworkers Union in filing an anti-dumping petition with the U.S. Commerce Secretary and the International Trade Commission to stop silicon metal imports from Australia, Brazil, Kazakhstan, and Norway. The complaint cited deliberate practices by producers from these four countries to sell silicon metal at artificially low prices in the U.S., resulting in the loss of good U.S. manufacturing jobs and harming U.S.-based companies.

More than 100 IUE-CWA members in Selma, Ala., lost their jobs in February 2016 when Globe closed the silicon metal plant.

"Unfortunately we have witnessed thousands of good manufacturing jobs leave our communities because of trade practices benefitting corporations in other countries at the expense of U.S. workers," wrote IUE-CWA President Jim Clark.

"When faced with these unfair trade practices from abroad, we have to fight back. IUE-CWA fully supports the anti-dumping case filed by Globe. We hope that this case will be reviewed quickly, and that justice will be served," he said.