A new report reveals widespread concerns about working conditions at Freedman by Lippert, a Chicago seating manufacturer, ahead of the pending merger of Lippert’s parent, LCI Industries.
The rally outside the Freedman Seating Company followed a report published this week by Jobs to Move America in which three-quarters of company workers surveyed reported struggling to pay for utilities, food or housing in the last year.
Bonita Siegel, president of Neighbors for a Better Micron says her group has grown from ten members to almost 200. “We need to get this together and basically say to Micron, don’t ignore us, because if you want us to
Local advocates spoke out against Micron Technologies’ $100 billion semiconductor plant in Clay, New York during a panel discussion at ArtRage Gallery.
Micron’s usage of hazardous “forever chemicals” pose a significant risk to the Oneida River and Lake Ontario, which serves as the drinking water supply for 500,000 residents across three counties.
On Jan 16., Neighbors for a Better Micron and Jobs to Move America filed an initial lawsuit in an attempt to force the Onondaga County Industrial Development Agency to issue a more extensive report on Micron’s potential environmental impact,
Neighbors for a Better Micron, representing community members who live near the facility, and nonprofit Jobs to Move America, which advocates for public goods, are petitioning the court to vacate Micron’s final environmental impact statement for the new facility.
The group Neighbors for a Better Micron believes Onondaga County and the state rushed its legally required environmental review of the project to ensure Micron didn’t take the project to another state.
Petitioners Jobs to Move America and Neighbors for a Better Micron argued that not enough is being done to address potentially harmful effects from Micron construction at White Pines Commerce Park in the Town of Clay, N.Y.
Just hours before January’s groundbreaking, Neighbors for a Better Micron, a coalition of local residents opposed to the plant, filed a lawsuit in the New York Supreme Court arguing the project’s final environmental impact statement failed to comply with the
