This week, reporters found that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, an opponent of union rights, workplace safety, project labor agreements and Davis-Bacon, is now using foreign money from overseas outsourcers to fund political attack ads targeting members of Congress who voted to keep jobs in the United States.
While it tells the American public it cares about American jobs, the the U.S. Chamber of Commerce actually works to send jobs overseas on behalf of its corporate members, which include some of Asia’s top offshoring companies. As previously noted, the Chamber has repeatedly sent out issue alerts attacking efforts to encourage businesses to hire American workers rather than outsource to overseas destinations to India and China.
At a time when millions of Americans are without jobs, the Chamber of Commerce cannot be allowed to get away with this slap in the face to every single American who has lost a job due to outsourcing, is threatened by it, or has seen family members suffer because of it.
Stand up to the Chamber by doing two simple things:
Write a letter to your local newspaper using a simple Letter to the Editor tool which takes less than a minute to use and;
Tell your elected representatives in Washington to support an investigation into these shady attack ads.
The stakes are too hight to sit back and do nothing. If the Chamber is allowed to buy its own hand-picked Congress, any effort to create jobs here at home will be completely crushed and the outsourcing of our American jobs to the countries and companies funding these attacks will continue at an even faster pace.
find out who's sending jobs overseas from your community.
UPDATE:
Looking at the website statistics and 475 letters were sent out to newspapers in MD, IN, PA, VA, MN, ND, MO, FL, NC, NM, TX, CA, RI, ME as well as some others (hard to go through each and every one). Let's keep it up angd get the word out!