Baldwin pushes DOL to keep jobs in the U.S. – Brownfield Ag News

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Baldwin pushes DOL to keep jobs in the U.S.

CNH Industrial’s announcement to move manufacturing to Mexico came under fire this morning during a U.S. Senate Appropriations subcommittee hearing.

Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Committee Chairwoman Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin says, “Agricultural machinery has been made by workers in my home state for over 175 years.”

“They have made Case New Holland into the international manufacturing powerhouse that it is today, even after delivering record profits for the company, plant workers at Racine are being told that their services are too expensive,” she says.

She pressed Acting Secretary Julie Su of the U.S. Department of Labor on how the Biden administration’s budget promotes a fair global playing field for workers and protects paychecks for Americans.

Su pointed to the International Labor Affairs Bureau or ILAB.

“ILAB engages in research and advocacy to make sure that conditions like child labor and forced labor in other countries are not condoned, that when goods that are made in such conditions try to enter the United States, that we do not allow that,” she explained.

Su said the department has also been engaged with Mexico as it implements worker protections as part of the U.S. Mexico Canada Agreement.