January 15, 2019 - Issue: Vol. 165, No. 8 — Daily Edition116th Congress (2019 - 2020) - 1st Session

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From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




              KEYSTONE TAILORED MANUFACTURING PLAN CLOSURE

  (Ms. KAPTUR asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Ms. KAPTUR. Madam Speaker, I rise today to highlight yet another grim 
economic headline, another broken promise on jobs and trade from 
President Trump to the people of northern Ohio, and more pink slips by 
another factory shuttered.
  Keystone Tailored Manufacturing will close by March. Approximately 
150 employees will lose their jobs.
  Keystone has made men's suits at the site since 2015. Before that, it 
was a Hugo Boss men's suit plant. Since 2010, workers fought to keep 
the facility from closing twice. There won't be a third time.
  As Mark Milko, the area director for the Workers United union put it: 
``It doesn't look like there is anything to fight to save.''
  Madam Speaker, this company plans to shift these jobs to Canada. 
There they can save $15 a suit on imported buttons, zippers, shoulder 
supports, and tariffs--because Canada isn't involved in a trade war 
with China that the President has started. Under NAFTA, they can then 
turn those suits right back around to sell here in America for nothing.
  This President's trade strategy is a disaster. American workers 
suffer the ultimate sacrifice. Our Nation must put someone in charge 
who knows what they are doing.

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