Keystone is paying an average of 13 bucks an hour with health insurance and pension obligations, etc. It is not a level playing economy. Workers successfully keeping the plant from closing twice, was seen as more than just a victory for those employees. It resonated for many in Northeast Ohio, where jobs had been sent abroad for decades, who saw it as a triumph for the working class.
In , the union waged a public campaign to keep the plant open after Hugo Boss officials said they would close the plant and ship the work abroad. Their efforts proved successful until Hugo Boss said it would close the plant in That was when the union got Keystone Tailored Manufacturing to open operations at the plant , hiring many of the former Hugo Boss workers.
Brooklyn gave economic incentives to Keystone. The county sees it differently. But eventually after protracted negotiations, the company decided not to close on the loan. The union said it can probably find apparel manufacturing jobs at other facilities throughout Northeast Ohio.
Ragland said a few employees have expressed interest in relocating to a related factory in Chicago. When Hugo Boss officials announced last December that they would close the plant in the spring, the union was gearing up to wage another campaign to keep it open.
Beasley asked him if his company was interested in buying the Hugo Boss plant. When Williams said yes, the union enlisted the help of U. Sherrod Brown, Democrat of Ohio -- who had been part of the effort five years ago to keep the plant open -- to set up a meeting between W. Diamond and Hugo Boss officials. Richard Monje, the union's international vice president, said after the news conference that W. Diamond was a natural choice because the union has had a good relationship with the manufacturers of Hart Schaffner Marx suits since He said Hugo Boss workers are expected to ratify a new contract with their new employer soon with compensation similar to what they currently receive.
The first meeting between the two companies occurred in January, said Markus Neubrand, chief executive officer of Hugo Boss Americas.
Neubrand declined to reveal the details of the pending sale, including price. He said the sale was certain to go through. Neubrand said the most important thing to the company was making sure the jobs would be saved. Williams said it was a big benefit to have the chance to employ about people with a background in manufacturing men's suits. Today, most apparel manufacturing is done abroad, so finding workers with experience in the field is often difficult.
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