By JoAnne Pow!ers
A July 10th determination from the commerce department could have serious implications for whether or not steelworkers will retain family-supporting union jobs around the country. America’s steel manufacturers and workers have joined forces to fight back against dumped imports of steel pipe used in the extraction of America’s oil and natural gas reserves. The Alliance for American Manufacturing, a partnership between the United Steelworkers and leading steel manufacturers, is calling for a thorough investigation of steel imports from South Korea being dumped on the US market below cost. Scott Paul, President of the AAM:
[Scott Paul] “They will always have disagreements, but they agreed that having a focus on the importance of manufacturing and good-paying jobs to our domestic economy was something that made a lot of sense. And we find that elected officials have nowhere to run when you bring in both the business side and the labor side to talk about a set of issues like we do. And I think we’ve at least woken up the white house and congress as to how important this is. Getting them to do something…is another story.”
AAM has been holding a nationwide series of ‘Save Our Steel Jobs’ rallies. Learn more at American manufacturing dot org.
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