1 min read

Season 2, Episode 243

Infrastructure bill’s Buy America provision is good news for steelworkers

AWF-Blogo-Logos-Template-400x400_USW

 

Guest Name:

Roxanne Brown

Guest Website:

www.usw.org

Guest Social Media:

Facebook

Twitter

YouTube

LinkedIn

Mentions:

United Steelworkers (USW) International Vice President at-Large Roxanne Brown joined the America’s Work Force Union Podcast to discuss the infrastructure bill and what its passage will mean for USW members.

The USW actively advocated for the infrastructure bill with its We Supply America campaign, a multi-state bus tour highlighting the importance of infrastructure investment. Brown believes this campaign was instrumental in getting the infrastructure bill signed into law.

Going into 2022, the USW’s biggest priority will be the implementation of the infrastructure bill, Brown said. Since the bill’s Buy America provision stipulates all materials used in infrastructure construction must be made domestically, it closes the supply loop and will create great opportunities for USW members, she added.

Brown also talked about President Biden’s Build Back Better budget reconciliation bill. Biden’s infrastructure agenda requires two pieces — physical as well as social infrastructure, the latter of which is covered in the budget reconciliation bill. She hopes Senate Democrats will come together and pass the bill by Christmas.

Listen to the entire episode to learn more about these topics.


America’s Work Force is the only daily labor podcast in the US and has been on the air since 1993, supplying listeners with useful, relevant input into their daily lives through fact-finding features, in-depth interviews, informative news segments and practical consumer reports. America’s Work Force is committed to providing an accessible venue in which America's workers and their families can hear discussion on important, relevant topics such as employment, healthcare, legislative action, labor-management relations, corporate practices, finances, local and national politics, consumer reports and labor issues.

America’s Work Force Union Podcast is brought to you in part by our sponsors: AFL-CIO, American Federation of Government Employees, American Federation of Musicians Local 4, American Alliance for Manufacturing, Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield, Columbus/Central Ohio Building and Construction Trades Council, Communication Workers of America, International Association of Heat and Frost Insulators and Allied Workers, International Association of Heat and Frost Insulators and Allied Workers Local 50, International Brotherhood of Teamsters, International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers, International Union of Bricklayers and Allied Crafts, International Union of Painters and Allied Trades District Council 6, Ironworkers Great Lakes District Council, The Labor Citizen newspaper, Laborers International Union of The National Labor Office of Blue Cross and Blue Shield, North America, North Coast Area Labor Federation, Ohio Federation of Teachers, Survey and Ballot Systems, United Labor Agency, United Steelworkers.

SUBSCRIBE ON:

Group 342

Group 341

Group 343

Group 339

Group 397

Group 397