Lawmaker urges Northrop workers to protest military budget cuts [View all]
Source: LA Times
With proposed federal budget cuts threatening military contracts and employment in Southern California's aerospace industry, about 2,000 Northrop Grumman Corp. workers were urged by a powerful congressional supporter to fight to save industry jobs.
"I implore you, no, I beg you, to stop this from happening," Rep. Howard "Buck" McKeon (R-Santa Clarita) exhorted workers Monday morning during a rousing speech at Northrop's sprawling manufacturing plant in Palmdale, where it built the B-2 stealth bomber.
As chairman of the House Armed Services Committee and representing an aerospace industry-rich district, McKeon has been an ardent supporter of the defense industry in Congress. He urged workers, their families and their supporters to call members of Congress to urge restraint in the proposed cuts, estimated at $487 billion over the next decade.
"Stage an insurrection in this country," he told the cheering crowd. "When you leave here today call … your loved ones" to help support the industry.
Read more: http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-defense-cuts-20120403,0,165492.story
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