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:: Sunday, October 24, 2004 ::
Report cites trade policy for lost jobs By Michael Yeomans, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
The AFL-CIO Industrial Council Job Export Database Project detailed job losses at companies involving 50 or more employees reported under the Worker Adjustment and Retraining and Notification (WARN) Act.
The report concluded that of 40,733 layoffs reported by Pennsylvania manufacturers under the WARN Act from January 2001 through May 2004, 70 percent were the result of foreign production shifts or competition from imports, primarily from China.
'Unfair trade policies are costing thousands and tens of thousands of manufacturing jobs,' said Scott Paul, an AFL-CIO trade policy analyst, at a news conference at the United Steelworkers of America headquarters, Downtown.------------------------------------------- posted 8:39 AM :: reference link ::
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