Big business and big labor are bringing a "Keep It Made in America" town hall event to Lincoln Financial Field today at 6 p.m.
The Alliance for American Manufacturing says that Philadelphia is the first stop for this fall tour, but the group has held similar events around the country in recent months.
Organizers say the free event is open to the general public. And they look to be pushing the right buttons by promising to have current Philadelphia Eagles middle linebacker Jeremiah Trotter and that "Invincible" Eagle Vince Papale there to sign autographs.
The group behind this public-policy alliance is largely the steel industry, including the United Steelworkers union, U.S. Steel Corp. and Allegheny Technologies. The organization has taken aim at the imbalance in China-U.S. trade and has been pushing the Obama administration to take a harder line on enforcing current trade laws.
One local group participating in a panel discussion on the state of manufacturing locally is Joe Houldin, chief executive officer of the Delaware Valley Industrial Resource Center.
Mike Armstrong, a business editor and writer for nearly two decades, is the Inquirer's business columnist and PhillyInc blog editor. Contact Mike via e-mail or at 215-854-2980
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