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Interest Rates Spike 1,700 Portland Jobs
Cheap Wheels from China Destroy 600 Jobs in Los Angeles

Stanley Works Moves 1,200 New Britain Jobs to China
Greed Costs Mt. Gilead 600 Jobs
Hostile Takeover Ends 350 Jobs at Waycross Plywood Mill
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Mexico Nets 100 Toronto
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German Firm Moves 4,000 Kelowna Jobs to U.S.
Auto Industry Squeeze Hits Hard
Dutch Vacuum 200 Jobs from Bloomington Normal
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North America is the world’s richest industrial
economy, with the most productive workforce on earth. But for how much
longer? Corporate greed and bad trade deals have sent so many jobs
offshore that 50 percent of a G.E. or P & W jet engine is now
produced overseas. What will be left if we continue selling off our best
jobs?
Revitalizing North America's
Might
Our governments conspired with
corporations to move our manufacturing jobs to low wage countries.
With each tax bill and every trade deal, they shipped away the finest
machinery ever made. With each IMF bailout and every interest rate hike,
they pulled the plug on assembly lines. With each wink at off-shore
bookkeeping and every nod to domestic content laws or off sets, they
ended our jobs.
Democrats, Republicans, Conservatives and Liberals alike bought into
globalization big time. With lace curtain speeches about free trade,
politicians justified decisions that sent our jobs to the shanty towns
of Mexico, China and Brazil.
Now those politicians claim nothing should be done. Bullfeathers!
If they can dismantle our industrial heartland one drill press at a
time, grease the sleds that move entire industries down south, pump
billions of dollars into failed economies across Asia and turn a trickle
of lost jobs into a deluge of the unemployed, they can reverse that
process.
If they cannot revitalize North America’s might, we must find ones who
will.
The unemployed whose stories appear in this IAM Journal represent more
than two million laid off workers across North America.
They need help now! They need to put food on their table today! They
need to pay the mortgage tonight!
Their anger mounts each day. And it will find an outlet: incumbent
politicians.
Only by pushing new policy
to revitalize North America’s might –– its tough, highly skilled
and tenacious workers –– can those incumbents keep from losing it
all.
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