After Conn-Selmer formally announced its decision to offshore 150 good union jobs to China at a long-time legacy Ohio company, workers are rallying community support to save the Eastlake plant from closure tentatively scheduled for June 30.
In January, on what was supposed to be day one of the latest contract negotiations between Conn-Selmer and UAW Local 2359 members, the last USA-made brass instrument brand, informed workers that it is shutting down its Ohio facility and offshoring almost all its Eastlake operations overseas to China.
This comes one year after Conn-Selmer owner John Paulson – billionaire and close adviser to President Trump – engaged in a media campaign in support of tariffs specifically to bring factory work back to the USA from China. All the while, his company was secretly building an offshoring facility in China.
Decades of an Ohio mainstay and hundreds of good, union jobs suddenly became on the chopping block because billionaire hedge fund owner John Paulson decided to lead with corporate greed over preserving an American institution – and American manufacturing.
Conn-Selmer informed UAW Local 2359 members that its “doomsday” would tentatively be June 30, 2026 – but workers are fighting back to save the Eastlake plant.
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