Machinists Union Begins Video Series Highlighting Trump’s Broken Promises to Stop U.S. Plant Closings
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13 Oct Machinists Union Begins Video Series Highlighting Trump’s Broken Promises to Stop U.S. Plant Closings

Posted at 14:05h in 2020 Elections, Jobs by

The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) today began a video series exposing the human cost of President Trump’s broken promises that U.S. workers “won’t lose one plant” and declarations that “[plants] are all coming back.”

The first video highlights workers at Transportation Communications Union (TCU/IAM) Local 6016 in Roanoke, Va. FreightCar America announced in July 2019 that it would be closing and laying off 198 TCU/IAM members. The work moved to Mexico and Alabama. 

In September 2020, FreightCar America announced that its Alabama facility would also be closing and shifted production to Mexico.

Watch the video on the IAM’s YouTube, Facebook and Twitter.

“President Trump told our members and the nation that he would not only stop our jobs from going overseas, but that he would bring jobs back that we’ve lost,” said IAM International President Robert Martinez Jr. “These promises have been broken time and time again over the past three years. This administration has turned their backs on tens of thousands of our members and their communities. We need a White House that walks the walk and will defend critical U.S. manufacturing jobs.”

Click here for the IAM’s full list of plant closings under the Trump administration.

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