Not what it used to be - Anonymous employee Nucor Employee Review

2.0
Dec 5, 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Decent pay if the plant is running good. Benefits are good with a yearly bonus and good medical. They've never had a layoff.

Cons

Ken Iverson laid out the business model that built this company. It was built on a foundation of treat your workers good, train them well, pay them well and let them make steel. He was forced out years ago and it's gone the opposite direction since. Top heavy with butt kissing supervisors that look for every way they can to cut pay to the workers. Nastiest place you will ever work at. (it's a steel mill) It's basically a revolving door for people hiring in and quitting especially skilled maintenance people. The steel industry is all but dead in the US. Politicians have sold it out to China and other slave driving countries and US made steel can't compete. Blame both political parties for that.

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