‘Buy American’ — or Bye-Bye America
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on February 10th, 2009 5:39 am by HL
‘Buy American’ — or Bye-Bye America
“British jobs for British workers!” thundered Gordon Brown, as he emerged from the shadow of Tony Blair to become prime minister. His populist sloganeering has now come back to bite him. Across Britain, thousands laid down tools in wildcat strikes in solidarity with a walkout from a French-owned oil refinery in North Killinghome — to protest a $300 million contract to an Italian company that plans to bring in 400 Italian and Portuguese workers to fulfill it.