Labor & Employment Law

Plumbers and Pipe Fitters President Hite Named to Export Council

By James Parks

President Obama has named Plumbers and Pipefitters (UA) President William Hite to serve on the President’s Export Council. Hite is the only labor representative on the council, which advises the president on strategies for expanding U.S. exports to promote American business and jobs. The council develops recommendations to strengthen U.S. trade agreements to ensure they are fair to American companies and workers.

“I am truly honored that President Obama has appointed me to this important body,” Hite says.

American-made products?whether machinery, equipment, computer technology, agriculture, raw materials and many, many other goods?represent some of the finest products in the world. Every single global market we can open or expand for American companies will create more jobs here in the U.S.A. Today’s economy, being what it is, demands that jobs should be our number one priority.

Full post as published by AFL-CIO NOW BLOG on July 09, 2010 (boomark / email).