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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
cdarwin@c.im ("Chuck Darwin") wrote:
In the small hours of June 30,
Joe Klima lay awake in bed.A little before 5 a.m., he rose and packed his lunch.
Ahead of Klima was his last shift at the Conn Selmer plant in Eastlake, Ohio
— everyone’s last shift,
because the factory was closing.At a time when the president of the United States said the country was in the midst of a manufacturing renaissance,
the 150 people who still worked at the plant were losing their jobs,
and seeing many of them offshored to China
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/08/01/conn-selmer-factory-closes-ohio-despite-trumps-manufacturing-push/