Communications Workers of America Local 7304 Members Welcome Vice President Harris to New Flyer in St. Cloud

The members of Communications Workers of America Local 7304 welcome Vice President Harris to New Flyer. We are excited to show her our facility today and to talk with her about the importance of our work manufacturing electric vehicles.

The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act that President Biden and Vice President Harris championed helps state and local governments to purchase zero-emission and low-emission transit buses like the ones we manufacture here. We thank her and President Biden for taking steps to ensure that these funds are being used as Congress intended, to create good, family-supporting union jobs like those here at New Flyer in Minnesota.

The workers at our New Flyer facility in St. Cloud are highly-trained and essential to driving our country into the future of electric buses. Thanks to our union and the ability it gives us to have a voice on the job, we are also well-paid and maintain a good work-life balance. As our country modernizes its public transportation fleet, it’s critical we create more good union jobs in the process and ensure professionally trained workers are leading the way.

Over 500 New Flyer workers in St. Cloud are represented by CWA Local 7304 and manufacture and supply buses for cities across the country, and are currently working on electric buses for municipal transit systems including New York, N.Y. and Minneapolis, Minn.

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