United Steelworkers applauded the Alliance for American Manufacturing for a report just released on the significant job losses of U.S. glass workers and the massive increase of Chinese government subsidies that have exacerbated a damaging flood of imports to the industry.

Mr Leo W Gerard president of USW said that “The report provides compelling evidence that our government must step to the plate at the upcoming commerce talks with China later this month to urge a response that reduces the effect of subsidization on American jobs in the glass industry.”

He added that “Rising joblessness makes it critical that our government enforce fair trade laws to help reverse this trend.”

Top US government officials will be meeting in Hangzhou, China with their Chinese counterparts of the Joint Commission on Commerce and Trade starting October 29th 2009.