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Joe Donnelly: “Well, what does it say when you leave 2,100 workers behind who have given their heart and soul, many 20, 25 years, to…”

On the recordMarch 14, 2016
Well, what does it say when you leave 2,100 workers behind who have given their heart and soul, many 20, 25 years, to that company and in return they are all fired so they can get $3 an hour wages in Mexico, and they tell you it is critical to save that $60 million, but they are giving a $16 billion stock buy-back. Is not something wrong with that process?
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Joe Donnelly
Democratic · Indiana

Editor's note · Context

Donnelly questions the ethics of stock buy-backs at the expense of workers.

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