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"The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people." Cesar Chavez |
:: Monday, June 21, 2004 ::
Bush and the Timken Plant, a Year Later By Christopher Brauchli, CounterPunch
Mr. Bush spoke at the plant in April of 2003. The future of the company looked bright for the "families that work here" as Mr. Bush said. Then a strange thing happened.
On May 16, 2004, slightly more than a year after Mr. Bush’s visit, Mr. Timken decided to close the plant in which Mr. Bush spoke and two other Timken plants in the Canton area. He made the decision even though the tax cut passed and even though he saved $59,000 in taxes as a result of its passage. The closure had nothing to do with the fact that the tax cut didn’t provide the promised benefits. It had to do with the fact that Mr. Timken decided to close the plant.
Closing the plant means that 1,300 people who were told by the president one year earlier that they had a bright future now have neither bright future nor jobs.------------------------------------------- posted 6:06 AM :: reference link ::
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