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Lede: Now that the Obama administration has officially created a White House Council On Automotive Communities and Workers, some labor leaders would like to see a White House committee for manufacturing renewal. Doug Cunningham has more.

By Doug Cunningham

United Steelworkers Vice President Vice-President Tom Conway says the Obama administration needs to get serious about a national industrial policy to revive not just auto, but the entire U.S. manufacturing sector.

[Conway]: “We think that this administration ought to strike itself a standing permanent committee right now about American manufacturing renewal – and the value that’s there and the long term value it brings to communities.”

Conway says economic and trade policies that let U.S. manufacturing wither and die are foolish and are devastating communities throughout the U.S.

[Conway2]: “Manufacturing has just waned and been allowed to die n the U.S. And, I mean (we) fundamentally believe that if you don’t mine somethin’ and mill it and manufacture it and put some labor and capital against and add value to it, you really can’t have, fundamentally a solidly based economy.”