Steelworkers to ask Council to push ‘Buy American’ resolution

Members of the United Steelworkers from across Middle Tennessee plan to gather Thursday morning to kick off their ‘Make Our Future Work’ program, which includes a push to get Metro Council to introduce an economic stimulus bill spending resolution.

The union will deliver the resolution regarding the spending of Federal Economic Renewal Grants — part of the stimulus bill recently passed in Washington, D.C. — at the offices of the United Steelworkers International Union, 3340 Perimeter Hill Drive.

Thursday’s event urging Metro Council’s passage of the resolution is part of similar efforts across the Midstate. Workers plan to tell their personal stories about what “Buy American” means to them, and why it is important for local governments receiving federal stimulus dollars to spend that money to create and maintain U.S. jobs, union officials said.

Workers from United Steelworkers, the Middle Tennessee Central Labor Council, Middle Tennessee Jobs with Justice will be represented at the event.