Communications Workers of America: Buy American waiver is "symptom of decline of US manufacturing"

The Communications Workers of America (CWA), the national industrial union representing 740,000 organized members within the telecom sector, stated today its displeasure with the the recent waivers, issued by the Departments of Agriculture and Commerce, of the Buy American provisions of the Recovery Act.

CWA, a delegate organization of the AFL-CIO, was the only arm of the American labor movement to have lobbied the Obama Administration in favor of a strict enforcement and interpretation policy regarding the applicability of the Buy American clause to the "broadband stimulus" provisions of the overall $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA)...