These steelworkers want a U.S. Steel sale. Biden and Trump don’t.
As White House decision looms, many steelworkers see deal as lifeline for their aging mills.

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Steelworkers attend a rally in support of the sale of U.S. Steel to Nippon Steel in Clairton, Pennsylvania, on Dec. 12, 2024. (Quinn Glabicki)

By David J. Lynch

CLAIRTON, Pa. — Hundreds of steelworkers stand in the 26-degree chill outside the local U.S. Steel plant at a pep rally of sorts, broadcasting their defiance and their desperation to the leaders that they believe have abandoned them.

On this mid-December afternoon, the crowd claps and cheers as more than a dozen speakers demand that the government approve Nippon Steel’s proposed $14.9 billion purchase of U.S. Steel.

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