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Swifty Sanders of USW Local 1011 finishes fourth on ‘Tough as Nails’
It’s no secret in Northwest Indiana that steelworkers are tough as nails, but now Americans everywhere know it, thanks to Swifty Sanders of United Steelworkers Local 1011, who last night finished fourth on the second season of the CBS reality show “Tough as Nails.”
Sanders, a Merrillville resident, is a nine-year member of the United Steelworkers, working at ArcelorMittal’s, now Cleveland-Cliffs’, facility in East Chicago. He competed against—but also with—11 other blue-collar workers in a series of brutal challenges, and despite an early-season injury Sanders outlasted and out-labored eight others, including a brick mason, a water proofer, a retired Air Force colonel and combat aviator, and a nurse.
On construction sites and fishing boats, on cherry-pickers and excavators, on I-beams and in farm fields, Sanders strained and sweated his way into the Top Four as a member of Team Savage Crew, and in doing so left no doubt in anyone’s mind that the brothers and sisters of Local 1011, and of the USW, put the steel in the spine of America.
“For me the choice to compete was easy,” Sanders said, in a feature on him posted to Local 1011’s website. “I liked what the show stood for in showcasing the hard-working blue-collar Americans out there. To have a life-changing opportunity, along with being on a show that highlighted the importance of the dedicated hard-working people like me, it was a total win. I’m so blessed and thankful for this opportunity.”
Swifty Sanders of USW Local 1011 finishes fourth on ‘Tough as Nails’
It’s no secret in Northwest Indiana that steelworkers are tough as nails, but now Americans everywhere know it, thanks to Swifty Sanders of United Steelworkers Local 1011, who last night finished fourth on the second season of the CBS reality show “Tough as Nails.”
Sanders, a Merrillville resident, is a nine-year member of the United Steelworkers, working at ArcelorMittal’s, now Cleveland-Cliffs’, facility in East Chicago. He competed against—but also with—11 other blue-collar workers in a series of brutal challenges, and despite an early-season injury Sanders outlasted and out-labored eight others, including a brick mason, a water proofer, a retired Air Force colonel and combat aviator, and a nurse.
On construction sites and fishing boats, on cherry-pickers and excavators, on I-beams and in farm fields, Sanders strained and sweated his way into the Top Four as a member of Team Savage Crew, and in doing so left no doubt in anyone’s mind that the brothers and sisters of Local 1011, and of the USW, put the steel in the spine of America.
“For me the choice to compete was easy,” Sanders said, in a feature on him posted to Local 1011’s website. “I liked what the show stood for in showcasing the hard-working blue-collar Americans out there. To have a life-changing opportunity, along with being on a show that highlighted the importance of the dedicated hard-working people like me, it was a total win. I’m so blessed and thankful for this opportunity.”
