I wouldn't live any place else. Other local business will probably try to come up with ideas on how to help those who have lost jobs at LTV, he said. I have hope. There is still a lot of good ore available, said Jerry Klaras, a 32-year former employee of the mine who sat with Olds at the lunch counter at Vaughn's along with Leo Svir and Vern Larson, who both each worked at the mine for 36 years. The four former millwrights are all insured through LTV and said they are concerned about their insurance plans.
Nobody's happy about it.
The plant's cessation will affect at least double the number of the close to 1,000 employees who will lose their jobs, Olds said. There will be family members and venders of LTV and others who will likely feel the loss in some way, he said. It's not easy to see a place close that holds 37 years of memories, Olds said. That's a lot of years. At the Taconite Haven bar in Hoyt Lakes, current LTV employee Bob Boerger and Erie retiree Irish Trezinski, had sorrowful reactions to the day's announcement.