News Tag: manufacturing

iMail , News June 4, 2013

IAM Joins New Connecticut Manufacturing Initiative

The IAM has joined newly-elected U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT), Gov. Dannel Malloy (D-CT), local business leaders and others in launching a new manufacturing initiative in Connecticut. Together the groups convened a panel to discuss ways the federal government can help sustain Connecticut’s manufacturing sector. “We haven’t done a lot in Washington about manufacturing because

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iMail , News February 14, 2012

‘Special Treatment’ for U.S. Manufacturing?

Do manufacturers need special treatment? Not only do they need it – they deserve it, says IAM Communications Director Rick Sloan and Leo Hindery, Chairman of the Smart Globalization Initiative at the New America Foundation, in an op-ed published on The Huffington Post. Together Sloan and Hindery refute a New York Times article written by

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iMail , News May 3, 2011

IAM Report Highlights U.S. Manufacturing Jobs

Unlike most industrialized countries, the U.S. has no definitive policy to preserve and protect its homegrown manufacturing jobs. A new IAM report, “Creating and Sustaining U.S. Manufacturing Jobs,” includes a nine-point plan that could provide the basis for a desperately-needed national policy. “While there are many reasons for the decline in manufacturing and the closely-related

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