Workers at Army Equipment Plant Protest Jobs Being Shipped to Puerto Rico

http://www.laborradio.org/node/11302

Workers at a plant that makes Army backpacks and vests turned out in force on Tuesday to protest plans by parent company Alliant Techsystems to close the New Bedford Massachusetts plant, essentially cutting 350 jobs. The company will be moving many of those jobs to Puerto Rico. The protest was organized by Worker’s United SEIU, a union that has been seeking to organize the workers. Congressional representatives in the region sent a joint letter to the Army seeking to make renewal of any contract contingent on preservation of work at the plant. The letter was signed by Rep. Barney Frank, and Senators Edward Kennedy and John Kerry. Meanwhile, the New Bedford City Council passed a resolution on Monday that promises to help find a buyer for the plant if Alliant does close the location and move the jobs.

Or are they claiming Puerto Rico is a foreign country?

Because "Shipped" is an emotionally loaded word that implies jobs are being moved out of the United States.

I think. IF my job was getting shipped out, it wouldn't matter to me where they were going.

we racing to a second world country one factory at a time....