Minnesota Session Laws - 1983, Regular Session

  

                         Laws of Minnesota 1983 

                       RESOLUTION 10--H.F.No. 1188
 A resolution memorializing the United States Congress 
to conduct an in-depth investigation of the steel 
industry. 
    WHEREAS, during the last two decades thousands of 
steelworkers and hundreds of communities in the industrial 
heartland of America have been devastated by layoffs and plant 
closings; and 
    WHEREAS, the U.S. steel industry has complained of the 
uncompetitive posture that it faces from foreign suppliers who 
are subsidized by foreign governments; and 
    WHEREAS, the U.S. Steel Corporation has filed unfair trade 
practices because of unfair foreign competition against many of 
these foreign countries including Japan, West Germany, Italy, 
England, and France; and 
    WHEREAS, the U.S. steel industry has stated many times that 
steelworker labor cost was their major problem in competing with 
foreign steel producers; and 
    WHEREAS, the United Steelworkers of America have recently 
conceded wages and benefits to the steel industry to insure the 
survival of the domestic steel industry; and 
    WHEREAS, the U.S. Steel Corporation has in the past 
imported iron ore from Canada and Venezuela, and finished 
foreign steel from Italy, Korea, and Japan to the detriment of 
the American steelworker and the communities they live in, and 
are now planning to import semifinished steel into the United 
States from Scotland, which will further devastate and undermine 
these communities and their economies; and 
     WHEREAS, this action by U.S. Steel Corporation will result 
in a loss of 3,000 jobs immediately and possibly thousands of 
more jobs in Minnesota and other states; NOW, THEREFORE, 
    BE IT RESOLVED by the Legislature of the State of Minnesota 
that an immediate in-depth Congressional investigation into the 
business practices of the U.S. Steel Corporation and the 
practices of the steel companies in the United States who are 
importing foreign steel and iron ore into the United States that 
have cost thousands of American jobs.  
     BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Secretary of State is 
directed to prepare certified copies of this memorial and 
transmit them to the President and Secretary of the United 
States Senate, to the Speaker and Chief Clerk of the United 
States House of Representatives, and to Minnesota's Senators and 
Representatives in Congress. 
    Approved June 14, 1983