With unemployment higher than it has been in decades, we must, now more than ever, support good American jobs, such as those of the workers who create this competitive engine.
General Electric employs thousands of highly skilled and technical IUE-CWA members, earning their living building this competitive engine. Eliminating this program would force them into unemployment and deeper financial crisis. It would also decimate the number of these highly skilled and technical workers that this country needs to compete in the global economy. Continuation of the F 136 dual engine program makes economic sense and protects CWA jobs. Read more »
Call your Senators at 202-224-3121 (Congressional switchboard) and tell them the following:
“My name is ____<your name>____ and I am calling from ____<your city>____.
I urge the Congressmember to support continued funding for the F-136 Alternative Engine. Please support the program - thousands of good American jobs are at risk!"
CWA Issue Brief on Joint Strike Fighter
CWA Letter to Congress Supporting the F-136 Joint Strike Fighter Alternative Engine Program (pdf)
Dec 2, 2010
CWA President Larry Cohen called on the Obama administration to block the Defense Department from stopping work on the F136 Joint Strike Fighter engine. The engine is built by about 2,500 members of IUE-CWA, members of Local 81201 in Lynn, Mass. Read More
May 27, 2010
CWA and IUE-CWA members are contacting their U.S. Representatives in Congress to keep the F-136 Alternative Engine Program for the Joint Strike Fighter. Read More
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