CANTON, Ohio– Another Northeast Ohio plant is facing job cuts. TimkenSteel in Canton continues eliminating positions and laying off workers.

"I got people laid off right now that got 20 years in, I got a lot of younger ones laid off," said Bob Harper, president of United Steelworkers Local 1123.

Harper represents 1,600 steelworkers at TimkenSteel. He says over the last year there's been a significant reduction in the workforce due to a lack of steel orders. Close to 300 workers have been laid off.

"We basically don't have orders, that's all it is, we're here to make steel, and we have to make steel to make money and keep people in work," said Harper.

The union is helping the company find more orders, but companies ordering steel, such as GM Lordstown, have shut down.

"We would ship steel to places like that, and they make the car parts there and assemble them. Well, that's gone, so that hurts us."

Harper says NAFTA and the US-China trade war has also caused a huge impact on the industry. He's hoping to see the winds of change come springtime, but there's always a lingering concern of a plant shutdown or a buyout.

"If we would lose this or even if somebody would buy us or make drastic changes, it would hurt the whole community, not just Canton, but this whole part of Ohio," said Harper.

Harper expects some workers to return to work as steel orders pick back up, which is desperately needed for hundreds of Northeast Ohio families.

"These are the middle class, these are people, your neighbors, their kids go to school with your kids, they pay their taxes, they take care of their properties usually, they care about what they do, they go to work, we're losing all of that, and we can't afford that, that's the American dream."

Spectrum News 1 reached out to TimkenSteel for comment but did not receive a response.