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Using Government Procurement to Bring Good Jobs Back to the U.S.
AFL-CIO
Marc Norberg is the assistant to the general president of International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers (SMART). He gave these remarks at the AFL-CIO Convention in St. Louis today.
I am pleased to have the opportunity to share SMART's work on Jobs to Move America and to talk about how we have used public procurement—or government purchasing—to re-shore good American manufacturing jobs.
Jobs to Move America began as a national initiative to ensure that the billions of tax dollars spent on the purchase of buses and trains for our public transit systems results in the creation of family-sustaining, manufacturing jobs in the United States.
Historically, manufacturing has been a key pathway for Americans without a college education to enter into the middle class. Unfortunately, one of the last American railcar manufacturers—the Pullman Company—shuttered more than 35 years ago. Since that time, all of the major companies winning contracts to build trains for our public transit systems have been multi-national...
Billboard Magazine's music charts are the latest flashpoint in a long running war between the music industry and Google.
Billboard Magazine's music charts are the latest flashpoint in a long running war between the music industry and Google.
Trump tweeted Saturday that he plans to allow the release of classified files related to President John F. Kennedy's assassination in 1963.
Trump tweeted Saturday that he plans to allow the release of classified files related to President John F. Kennedy's assassination in 1963.
Brazil Undermines Labor Laws and Puts Women Workers at Great Risk
Paloma dos Santos, president of the Union of the Cleaning Services Workers of Santos City and Region (Sindilimpeza-Sindicato dos trabalhadores em asseio e conservação da baixada santista) from Brazil, is at the AFL-CIO 2017 Convention this week and is part of the Brazil-Kenya women's delegation.
Brazil's comprehensive labor laws have long provided a strong institutional framework for unions to defend workers' rights. Changes pushed through Congress this July by Brazil's un-elected president and a Congress compromised by corruption charges have greatly undermined the labor laws and will drastically change the legal context in which Brazil's unions work.
By some accounts, this drastic overhauling of Brazilian labor law places the country on a path toward something more similar to the U.S. reality, weakening collective bargaining and unions' financial stability. While the comprehensive labor law was flawed, these changes cannot be called reforms.
They are expected to deeply affect women, people of color and many workers who were long excluded from these protections...
Trump tweeted Saturday that he plans to allow the release of classified files related to President John F. Kennedy's assassination in 1963.
A senior congressional aide briefed on the deaths of soldiers in Niger says Congress wants to know if the Pentagon is properly supporting the troops.
A judge granted a new trial in the suit, which was brought on behalf of a woman a woman who claimed she developed ovarian cancer by using baby powder.
