Workers at a Madisonville plant are part of a national union’s campaign to keep union jobs in the commonwealth.

A national coalition of labor, environmental, trade, and veterans groups launched a nationwide campaign this week entitled “Bring It Home GE,” calling on manufacturing giant General Electric to heed the Biden administration’s call to “Build Back Better” by reinvesting in domestic manufacturing jobs in green energy, military, and commercial aviation.

Back in March, we covered how General Electric (GE) shut down production of A-19 LED light bulbs at its factory in Bucyrus, Ohio. Not only was it a blow to the 81 workers who lost their jobs, it also was a big letdown because those bulbs once shone brightly on Walmart shelves, part of the retailer’s Made in USA public relations campaign (Walmart, perhaps not surprisingly, dodged the issue).

General Electric’s CEO Larry Culp said the debt reducing decision by the manufacturing giant create three companies…

Previous Salem General Electric workers have been through a lot in recent years…

Workers at the GE Aviation plant at Strother Field are asking their employer to stop offshoring jobs to create more jobs in Kansas…

Workers at the General Electric Aviation plant in Madisonville are joining with other IUE-CWA union workers from across the nation…

A new national advertising campaign starring local GE/Savant Lighting employees calls on the local employer to increase the number of manufacturing jobs in the community…

General Electric recently announced that the conglomerate will divide itself into three separate companies in the course of the next three years…

General Electric recently announced that the conglomerate will divide itself into three separate companies in the course of the next three years…