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    Labor, officials urge New Era Cap to save Derby plant

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    Labor, officials urge New Era Cap to save Derby plant

    Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz and Assemblyman Sean Ryan, D-Buffalo, joined labor leaders Monday outside New Era Cap headquarters on Delaware Avenue in a bid to persuade the company to reconsider closing its manufacturing plant in Derby.

    Company officials a month ago announced plans to close the plant, with 219 workers, in March.
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    Ryan, after the rally, said an additional goal was to get the community to recognize how important those 219 jobs are to the local economy.
    Well it's time for the community to oust the long time people who have been causing the cost to operate in our state to be the highest in the nation. That would be a good start.


    "New Era Cap is the sweet spot that we want, with real high-tech design work for an international company, coupled with a high-skilled manufacturing workforce. So, it's a really important component of our economy and we're trying to work with New Era to help them to become a better community partner and also to realize how important these jobs are to Western New York," Ryan said.
    He said the state may be interested in offering New Era incentives to stay, such as a package that could include low-cost power and additional state-funded training for New Era employees.
    That doesn't make sense. Is the issue that the company can't find skilled workers or is the issue operating costs just about anywhere in the USA are less?

    WHY not work on lower cost for power for every business instead of a select few?

    "Our door is open and I hope that they will entertain walking through it, and working towards an equitable solution to keep these jobs here in Erie County," he said.
    The door is open and it would be nice if many long time elected officials would entertain leaving NYS. They can take their skill set to other states. Ever notice we don't see other communities out of NYS begging our elected officials to come grow their economies?

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    Would you just want them to bury their heads in the sand ??? At least they are trying.

    Incentives used to save scores of jobs and in this case a couple hundred, as opposed to what you are saying for every business, shouldn't be off the table especially if NYS pays. It's one thing to save 219 jobs but another altogether to save any business like you state.

    You probably blamed the Dems anyway for the announced shutdown, as usual.

    Just saying.


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    Did you see my say anything about Dems?

    Just saying...

    Why don' they "try" where a real difference can me made versus being reactive to situations.

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    Why doesn’t Il Douche just build another empty $750 million plant, with several million off the top for graft and corruption for his contributors, give the plant to a major Dem contributor for nothing to produce a product no one wants and no one buys and declare it another great day for western New York. Now that’s economic development Cuomo -style!
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    Quote Originally Posted by grump View Post
    Why doesn’t Il Douche just build another empty $750 million plant, with several million off the top for graft and corruption for his contributors, and declare it another great day for western New York. Now that’s economic development Cuomo -style!
    You see it rather clearly don't you.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Breezy View Post
    Would you just want them to bury their heads in the sand ??? At least they are trying.

    They are not trying..dummy. They are putting on a show for fools like you.

    Trying would be working to prevent these issues from happening by making WNY and NYS more friendly to business and not the complete bitch of labor.

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    What lefty said. There's nothing wrong with being fair but we passed being fair long time ago.

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