We need your help to save our community's economic outlook and create jobs. Please copy our petition and pass it out than send it back to me so that I can give it to our elected officials.
All over America we have businesses and corporations pitting one community against the other to see what kind of break each will offer them and leaving our local community economic situation in despair. Or moving their companies overseas to get slave labor, and where there are no labor laws or unions to protect the employee's rights and welfare and where there is no EPA standard to meet to protect the environment. We are circulating a petition to send to our elected officials.
WE NEED TO STOP WORRYING A BOUT THE WORLD ECONOMY AND START TAKING CARE OF THE UNITED STATS ECONOMY.
Prophetstown, IL. It has a population of 2200 residents and Tyco International has a plant there that they are closing down. Tyco has stated that they are moving the plant because of the condition of the building that they are renting from W.P.C. Corporate Property Associates, which they became a sub-lesser after they bought out P. C. C. Flow which had a lease in place that is up in 2011. Tyco bought this company about 9 years ago.
The city of Prophetstown has offered Tyco a 10 acre building site plus easements and hooking up their utilities water, sewer, and electrical. Tyco told them it had to be done by April 2010 when their lease runs out. Tyco told them this in December 2009.
During the negotiations with union representatives over the plant closing, which affect s 47 union employees. Tyco has offered 25 hours of pay for each year of service to the union employees and for the 36 non-union employees in the office they have offered 80 hours of pay for each year of service. This doesn’t seem fair, especially since Tyco has told them what great employees they are and that they rank in the top 3 or 4 most profitable plants in the flow control division. The union employees will also receive 1 week of insurance at the cost that they are paying now for every year of service. I do not know what the office got but Tyco also told them if they find another job before they lay them off or before the plant closing they would lose this severance package and get nothing.
On their web site, Tyco makes the claim of being employee friendly and a people company. This doesn’t sound like an employee friendly or a people company to me. It sounds like a greedy corporation that doesn’t care about its employees or the people of Prophetstown or their community.
This is the 3rd plant in Prophetstown, IL that Tyco has purchased and closed, not caring about the employees or the community or the economic impact on Prophetstown. The first plant that was closed was the foundry, the second plant they closed was moved to Mexico, which didn’t work out so they moved it again, and now they want to close the Flow Control Plant. Does this make Tyco sounds like a caring Corporation to work for and have in your Community?
At my suggestion, and with the assistance of Local Union President, Larry Niccoli and Mayor Steve Swanson the community of Prophetstown, IL wants to get people and communities in similar situations to sign our petition.
After we get all of the petitions back we will send them to our elected officials and demand that they take appropriate action on them.
Roger K. Davis P.O. Box 3292 Quincy, IL 62305-3292
We, the undersigned, petition our elected officials to stop all Aid and Tax Breaks from our City, County, State and Federal governmental entities to all Businesses and Corporations that move our Jobs from our community to other communities just to receive these breaks. And all Businesses and Corporations that move our Jobs out of the United States to other Countries should have to Pay an Import Tax that would be equal to the cost of making that product here in America.
