North Carolina Losing Jobs Due to
Federal Trade Policies
Our nation has undergone an unprecedented
period of job loss over the past three years, now involving
a total net reduction of almost three million workers.
During this period, North Carolina’s textile and
other traditional manufacturing sectors have been particularly
hard hit by the expansion and accelerating impact of
misguided NAFTA-type trade policies from Washington.
Our congressional delegation has acted in a bipartisan
manner to slow down and address the disproportionate
impact these policies have had on our state, but have
not yet met with much success.
Republicans
and Democrats Unite to Fight Federal trade policies
The entire North Carolina delegation joined 126 other
House members in sending a letter to President Bush
urging his administration to protect the jobs of U.S.
textile workers.
Governor
Easley Discusses Federal Trade Policies
Employment is beginning to stabilize in North Carolina,
despite continued job loss of over 430,000 at the
national level since the beginning of the year. Despite
declines in manufacturing, North Carolina is creating
nonmanufacturing jobs in sectors such as finance and
health care, while nonmanufacturing jobs are flat
nationally. But our textile job loss alone is responsible
for one in every four jobs lost in North Carolina,
compared with one in 25 in the nation as a whole.
Manufacturers group fights trade policy
that hurt North Carolina
www.atmi.org
Governor
Easley Calls on President to Take Action
August 5, 2003
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Jobs
Comment Brings Out GOP Damage Control
There is no clearer sign that Republicans
fear they are vulnerable on economic issues than their
public attack on President Bush's top economic adviser
for saying the loss of American jobs to workers overseas
is "a plus for the economy...
Increased Investments in Our Workforce
Because much of our workforce is in transition and because incumbent workers constantly need new skills to keep their companies competitive, Gov. Easley fought to expand worker training at North Carolina's community colleges.
Governor Easley Discusses the Decline in the Textile Industry in NC
The American textile industry says it's coming apart, thread by threat, job by job. In North Carolina and South Carolina alone, 200,000 jobs have been lost since 1997. Chuck Hayes is president and CEO of Guilford Mills in Greensboro, North Carolina. It's become the fourth major North Carolina textile company to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection...
Textile Producers Fear Demise of U.S. Import Quotas
Industry groups warn that China may become country's top supplier...
