English-French translations for steelworker

• métallurgiste
  Ce n'est pas pour rien que 11 000 ouvriers métallurgistes ont manifesté à Bruxelles cette semaine afin de conserver leurs emplois. It is not for nothing that 11 000 steelworkers demonstrated in Brussels this week to keep their jobs.
• sidérurgiste
  Néanmoins, s'il l'on entendait proposer d'octroyer des fonds à (disons) nos sidérurgistes de Corus, nous ne pourrions nous opposer à une telle contribution. However, if it were to be proposed to provide funds for (say) our steelworkers from Corus, we could not oppose such a contribution.

Definition of steelworker

• A person who manufactures or shapes steel
• A person employed to build steel structures, an ironworker

Examples

• The United Steelworkers strike closed the mill.
• The steelworkers and electricians went on strike, halting construction.

Related words

• steelworks
• steelware
• structural steelwork