Dear MoveOn member,
GE is one of America's leading producers of ventilators and could be using its excess capacity to manufacture lifesaving equipment. Instead, it is laying off workers in the midst of a deep public health crisis and record unemployment.
And GE could get away with it, unless Donald Trump employs the Defense Production Act to require GE to use its highly-skilled union workforce and underutilized facilities to produce ventilators and save lives during this pandemic.
We are longtime GE employees and proud IUE-CWA union members who know that we and our co-workers can make a real difference during this crisis by producing ventilators, but GE has failed to act. We are calling on President Trump to use his authority under the Defense Production Act to require GE to start producing ventilators at its underutilized facilities immediately!
We have the skills necessary to make ventilators, and GE has the manufacturing capacity, but instead of producing this desperately needed equipment, the company has announced massive layoffs of its workforce and GE factory space is sitting empty.
GE is partnering with other corporations to jump-start ventilator production, because its existing GE Healthcare production plant is now running at capacity. Meanwhile, thousands of Americans are dying every day. We need more companies producing more ventilators in more locations now, and the quickest way for GE to do that is to put its skilled workforce and excess capacity to work.
Workers like us are ready to start producing ventilators to help our country get through this crisis and save lives. President Trump must act now to require GE to do the right thing and start producing livesaving ventilators immediately. Please join this fight and sign our petition.
Thanks for all you do.
—Vicky Hurley & Walter Bradford, IUE-CWA
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