As of yesterday it is official.................... Add me to the list of soon to be unemployed due to foreign competition. The company that I have worked for 15 years now as a patternmaker is going to buy all of thier products from China. THANK YOU NAFTA/GATT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! They first came to the union and said that they were losing 4.2 million dollars a year and that if we could come up with a cost savings of this amount plus a little for profit that they would keep the company open. We (the United Steelworkers Union) came up with 4.8 million in cost savings including wage cuts. Upon recieving this proposal the companies corporate attorneys told the Union that we must come up with 7 million dolllars in order to cover the projected profits that they were expecting to see from their overseas purchases. All of the members of the Union got together, met with all of the tax departments including the city of Salem, Ohio, the utility companies, PUCO, etc. and put together a proposal including wage AND benifits cuts to be presented to the corporate attorneys in the amount of 9 million dollars.
THE COMPANY REJECTED THE PROPOSAL !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! PLEASE boycott all Eljer Plumbingware, Zurn Industries, Household International, US Industries and Jacuzzi Brands products as they will all be coming from China now. We , the United Steelworkers of America would appreciate it !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! If you need any sandblasting , metal polishing or painting done.....feel free to contact me personally !!!!!!! Wayne (will work for money) in Ohio
