Hundreds Rally Against Use of Foreign Steel In U.S. Pipelines

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.laborradio.org/node/10872

Hundreds Rally Against Use of Foreign Steel In U.S. Pipelines - 04/09/09

Steelworkers came out in Granite City, Illinois on Tuesday to oppose plans to use foreign made steel for the proposed pipeline projects. Jesse Russell reports:

Nearly 1,000 people attended the rally on Tuesday intended to bring attention to plans to use foreign made steel for pipeline projects in the United States. The rally was held in front of the shuttered United States Steel Corporation plant in the St. Louis suburb where many of the protesting steelworkers had previously been employed. The stimulus package approved by President Barack Obama in February does contain a “Buy American” clause, but that clause doesn’t apply to private projects. Specifically the workers had gathered to protest the so-called Keystone Pipeline which will be made with steel shipped in from India. The project is estimated to be $5.2 billion and will span the states of Missouri, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Kansas, and both of the Dakotas.

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