Congressman Dan Goldman Calls for CHIPS and Science Act Funding to Prioritize Union Jobs
Letter Cosigned by Goldman Outlines Steps for Department of Commerce to Prioritize Union Jobs and Support Domestic Supply Chains with $39 Billion in CHIPS Act Funding
Read the Letter Here
Washington, D.C – Congressman Dan Goldman (NY-10) last week joined a letter with Congresswoman Linda T. Sánchez (CA-38), Congressman Bill Pascrell (NJ-9), Congressman Brian Higgins (NY-26), and Congresswoman Gwen Moore (WI-4) outlining steps the Department of Commerce can take to ensure recent investments in the semiconductor industry prioritize good-paying, union jobs, support domestic supply chains, and respond to current national security challenges.
“The CHIPS and Science Act was a generational bipartisan achievement to ensure America’s economic competitiveness heading into the next century,” Congressman Dan Goldman said. “Now Congress and the Biden Administration must ensure that this critical funding is being used to build our economy from the bottom up and middle out by uplifting working families and securing our domestic supply chains.”
The Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors (CHIPS) and Science Act provides $39 billion in grants, loans, and loan guarantees to rebuild America’s semiconductor manufacturing capacities. The CHIPS Act also allows companies a 25 percent advanced manufacturing investment tax credit, producing $24 to 52 billion in investment tax breaks over the next decade.
The letter pushes the Administration to have a “worker-centered focus” as they consider applications for program funding. The letter outlines ten recommendations to help the Biden Administration “support a new generation of high-paying, skilled union jobs to strengthen local economies.”
The letter was endorsed by: American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW), Communication Workers of America (CWA), United Auto Workers (UAW), United Steel Workers (USW)International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers, (IFPTE), International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers (SMART), Department for Professional Employees (DPE), and Employ America Action Fund.
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