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Tue Dec 8, 2015, 01:02 PM Dec 2015

Machinists Union President Welcomes Hillary Clinton’s Plan to Restore U.S. Manufacturing

Washington, D.C., December 8, 2015 – The International President of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) today said Hillary Clinton’s plans to invest in infrastructure and revitalize the U.S. manufacturing sector marked the first serious strategic policy proposal of the 2016 presidential campaign.

“If we are to have a real economic recovery in this country, we must take concrete steps to pump new life into our manufacturing sector,” said IAM International President Tom Buffenbarger. “Hillary Clinton has demonstrated once again that she has the political foresight and will to take on the key challenge of reigniting the jobs engine that built the American middle class.”

Calling it the defining economic challenge of our time, Clinton last week proposed a five-year, $275 billion plan to create jobs by investing in infrastructure, and this week offered new proposals for reinvesting in advanced manufacturing and production, while opposing policies that allow large corporations to avoid paying their fair share of taxes.

In a Dec. 7 New York Times editorial, “How I’d Rein in Wall Street,” Clinton addresses cynical efforts to roll back critical consumer and financial protections enacted in the wake of the Great Recession: “The proper role of Wall Street is to help Main Street grow and prosper,” wrote Clinton. “When our financial sector works the right way, it helps families buy their first homes, entrepreneurs start and grow small businesses and hardworking Americans save for retirement.”

The IAM is among the nation’s largest and most diverse industrial trade unions, with nearly 600,000 members in aerospace, manufacturing, transportation, shipbuilding, woodworking, electronics and the federal sector. Visit www.goiam.org for more information about the IAM.

http://www.goiam.org/index.php/news/press-releases/15291-machinists-union-president-welcomes-hillary-clintons-plan-to-restore-us-manufacturing

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Machinists Union President Welcomes Hillary Clinton’s Plan to Restore U.S. Manufacturing (Original Post) Historic NY Dec 2015 OP
Very, very good. Agnosticsherbet Dec 2015 #1
K AND R! JaneyVee Dec 2015 #2
I wonder how the TPP's provision that contracts over a certain size must be opened djean111 Dec 2015 #3
If it were only their own throats they were cutting bvf Dec 2015 #7
And my irony meter overloads again. merrily Dec 2015 #4
Yes. Ed Suspicious Dec 2015 #6
Go Clinton. Love it. nt. NCTraveler Dec 2015 #5
I'm convinced that all of these unions Sheepshank Dec 2015 #8
Also because unions thrive on capitalism and a good economy. JaneyVee Dec 2015 #10
Unions continue their love workinclasszero Dec 2015 #9
 

djean111

(14,255 posts)
3. I wonder how the TPP's provision that contracts over a certain size must be opened
Tue Dec 8, 2015, 01:05 PM
Dec 2015

to all signatories would affect this.

 

bvf

(6,604 posts)
7. If it were only their own throats they were cutting
Tue Dec 8, 2015, 01:54 PM
Dec 2015

it would be one thing, but we know it doesn't work like that.

 

Sheepshank

(12,504 posts)
8. I'm convinced that all of these unions
Tue Dec 8, 2015, 02:14 PM
Dec 2015

...realize that Hillary has a track record of actually getting shit done. It's what is necessary for their survival. All the loud talking and gesticulating over income disparity won't fix a single solitary thing...or even more importantly, move the country forward

 

JaneyVee

(19,877 posts)
10. Also because unions thrive on capitalism and a good economy.
Tue Dec 8, 2015, 02:41 PM
Dec 2015

And Hillary will create a good economy.

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