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Is a new Chip Fab Plant Fabulous for worker?
Updated On: Jan 24, 2010
Take the time to read the full Article Published by our Labor friend Jon Flanders and think carefully! He and the
Labor Community are looking out for our Members! Thanks Jon......
Good 21st-century jobs will be built on the basis of high-tech computer-based industries -- this is a narrative that we have been told many times in the corporate press.
The construction of a new computer chip fabrication plant just north of the Capital District of upstate New York by GlobalFoundries is touted by the business and political establishment here as just such a boon for the area.
But, for the union production workers at the Momentive Performance Materials plant just south of the GlobalFoundries project, it might mean the end of any hope of maintaining the living standards that generations of workers fought for.....
