Ranking Member Krishnamoorthi Hosts Roundtable with Labor Leaders to Discuss the Challenges Posed To American Workers by the Chinese Communist Party

WASHINGTON, D.C. – On Wednesday, Ranking Member Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) of the House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) met with David McCall, the President of the United Steelworkers, and other senior-level officials in the labor movement to discuss how unfair trade and labor practices by the CCP are seriously harming American workers and U.S. manufacturing capacity as well as our domestic supply chains. The participants also discussed the Committee’s ongoing work to combine trade enforcement measures with domestic investments like the CHIPS and Science Act and the Inflation Reduction Act to rebuild U.S manufacturing and create good-paying American jobs for the 21st century economy. The following representatives were in attendance:

• David McCall, President, United Steelworkers

• Dave Sullivan, General Vice President (Shipbuilding), IAM

• Jody Bennett, General Vice President (Aerospace), IAM

• Jason Wade, Senior Advisor to President Fain, United Autoworkers

• Riley Ohlson, Legislative Representative, AFL-CIO

• Dan Mauer, Director of Government Affairs, Communications Workers of America

• Mike Wessel, Staff Chair, Secretary of Labor/USTR Labor Advisory Committee

“The Democratic Members of the Select Committee are committed to ensuring that American workers have a seat at the table as we forge a comprehensive strategy to win our economic competition with the Chinese Communist Party,” said Ranking Member Krishnamoorthi. “I’m proud of the work our Select Committee is doing to elevate the importance of trade enforcement while investing in our people and our industries to revitalize the U.S. manufacturing base and protect good-paying American jobs.”