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Anniston Star
Apr 28, 2012 | 1133 views |

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Since China joined the World Trade Organization, employment in the auto parts industry in America has declined by 45 percent, and approximately 400,000 American workers have lost their jobs while Chinese auto parts imported to America have increased by almost 900 percent.
Recently, 188 senators and representatives signed a letter to President Barack Obama urging him to act. Unfortunately Alabama Sens. Jeff Sessions, R-Mobile, and Richard Shelby, R-Tuscaloosa, did not sign this letter. We need to urge them to get involved and help save our jobs.
Shane Mitchell
Gadsden