Georgia Teamsters, elected officials and a religious leader held a press conference last week to bring attention to the Bring Jobs Home Act. The event was held in front of a closed plant where jobs were shipped overseas. Speakers urged rebuilding of our economy ending the offshoring of jobs offshore.
The AFL-CIO Blog tells us:
In Savannah, Ga., last week, union and community activists used the site of a closed Air Liquide plan—the firm shuttered then shipped the jobs to Mexico—to highlight the urgent need to pass the Bring Jobs Home Act.
Savannah City Alderman Carolyn Bell said:
We have the talent and the skilled work force to compete with anyone, anywhere in the world, as long as we have a level playing field.Pittsburgh union activists held a rally today to support the bill. Reports Essential Public Radio:
Toting signs reading “Bring Jobs Home,” several dozen labor activists crowded the lawn of the United Steelworkers building on Monday to demand passage for U.S. Senate Bill 2884...
The bill would end tax incentives for companies that move their workforces overseas. Under the legislation, tax credits would be given to companies who move jobs back to the United States.
At the end of the rally, the activists walked from the USW building to Pennsylvania Senator Pat Toomey’s office, to demand that he support the so-called Bring Jobs Home Act.
