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Sounds simple enough. And there are some jobs that fall obviously into the green-collar category, like the hundreds of employees who now work for the Spanish wind company Gamesa at its new plant in Fairless Hills, Pa. - a plant built on the site of an old U.S. Steel manufacturing facility. If you make wind turbines or solar panels, your job is reliably green. But Angelides and his allies want to cast a wider net. To them, a green-collar job can be anything that helps put America on the path to a cleaner, more energy efficient future. That means...
...candidates' platforms are so alike, in fact, that they both point to the same example - a plant in Fairless Hills outside Philadelphia that revamped its business to make wind turbines after its steel operations shut down. Clinton held a rally there with 2,500 supporters Monday night, her voice echoing off of the building's massive corrugated frame. "A lot of big facilities like U.S. Steel and others have shut down or dramatically cut back, and we've lost a lot of jobs," Clinton told the crowd. "And so what we see here is a perfect example of the people...
...next generation of American ingenuity. "We're going to transform shuttered steel mills to make windmills, plants that have closed will make solar panels," he said. "These kinds of jobs are bringing new life back to places that have been hard hit in recent decades - places like Fairless Hills in Bucks County, where the old U.S. Steel plant is now being used to make wind turbines...
...message resounds with blue-collar workers, fearful of what a recession could do to their already struggling bottom lines. Obama "is not saying the right things," Robin Fondacaro, 59, an equipment operator from Bristol, said before a Clinton rally in Fairless Hills Sunday. "She's telling us what we want to hear. Now whether it's true or not, time will tell...
...Steel Chairman David M. Roderick called the company's action a "facility rationalization." In fact, its action was a meticulous paring of U.S. Steel's capacity to make, forge and finish steel. Mills, foundries and blast furnaces in such famed Big Steel locations as Gary, Ind., Fairless and Homestead, Pa., and the South Works in Chicago will be shut down. Plans for a rail mill in Chicago were dropped, despite union work-rule concessions and tax breaks from the Illinois state government. Mining and chemical operations will be pruned, along with fabricating facilities in some eastern states...