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President Obama Visits Freightliner Plant in Mount Holly
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- Three years after Freightliner, a division of Daimler Trucks North America, announced it would eliminate 2,200 jobs at its three North Carolina plants and ship production to Mexico, there has been a remarkable turn around.
- The President bragged about North Carolina workers and the new trucks they are building in our state, trucks that can run on cleaner-burning natural gas, hybrid trucks, and trucks that use less oil."
- Now, here at Daimler, you're not just building trucks.
- You're building better trucks," said the President."
- To stop the outsourcing of thousands of good-paying, middle class jobs, the union sprung into action, filing a grievance against the company for violating its contracts and embarking on a massive public campaign to pressure companies like Duke Energy to demand its trucks be built in North Carolina.
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