North America’s Building Trades Unions was “dismayed and frustrated” by the $120 million in MOX construction funding stripped last week by the House Armed Services Committee during markup of the 2015 National Defense Authorization Act, the group’s president said yesterday in a letter to Ranking Member Adam Smith (D-Wash.). “Once again, representatives of the party that is supposed to be looking out for the interest of workers votes to take food off their tables. It is incomprehensible to me that the jobs of 1200 men and women on the MOX facility aren’t as important as the U.S. Air Force receiving eight MQ-9 Reapers. I’m sure that it is also no coincidence that the manfacturer of those reapers, General Atomics, has facilities in San Diego, California, the Congressional District of Congressman Scott Peters, who offered the amendment to shift the $120 million from the MOX facility to the Reapers,” Building Trades Unions President Sean McGarvey said in the letter.
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