Manufacturers Urged to Accept Challenge of Foreign Competition
KIAWAH ISLAND, SC-U.S. manufacturers and government policy makers must develop unique strategies to contend with unprecedented global competition that is hurting U.S. businesses and costing jobs an industry leader told a group of executives from an aluminum association.
Richard E. Dauch, chairman of the National Association of Manufacturers, told the Annual Meeting of The Aluminum Association that since July 2000 the United States has lost 3.3 million jobs and 2.8 million of them have been in manufacturing.