No Oregon money for corporate raiders!
Oregon Investment Council: If KKR takes our jobs, then take back our money!
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Oregon invests billions of taxpayer dollars every year with the investment firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR). The firm currently holds $3 bilion dollars in state assets. In spite of this relationship, the firm has threatened to shutter the North Portland Sealy Mattress factory and move out of state to a non-union facility. The move would cost Oregon's economy a vital 128 family-wage manufacturing jobs.
The Oregon Investment Council (OIC) is the body that decides where to invest the state's money.
We the undersigned call upon the OIC to not stand by as KKR uses Oregon tax dollars to kill Oregon jobs. If KKR closes the North Portland Sealy Mattress manufacturing facility, we call upon the OIC to divest Oregon public funds from the firm. We will deliver this petition to the OIC at their next meeting on January 23rd.
The Oregon Investment Council (OIC) is the body that decides where to invest the state's money.
We the undersigned call upon the OIC to not stand by as KKR uses Oregon tax dollars to kill Oregon jobs. If KKR closes the North Portland Sealy Mattress manufacturing facility, we call upon the OIC to divest Oregon public funds from the firm. We will deliver this petition to the OIC at their next meeting on January 23rd.
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| Number | Date | Name | Location | Tell the OIC why it's ... |
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| 854 | Fri Apr 19 23:35:50 EDT 2013 | Roy Bennett | Corvallis, | |
| 853 | Sat Mar 30 00:58:10 EDT 2013 | MaryJoan Tully | Brookings, | We need jobs here; giving money to someone who would take money out of state in the form of jobs makes no sense. |
| 852 | Fri Feb 22 15:25:03 EST 2013 | reid segal | Lake Oswego, | |
| 851 | Fri Feb 08 23:34:21 EST 2013 | David Colburn | Cloverdale, | |
| 850 | Fri Feb 08 20:20:08 EST 2013 | David Kahl | Portland, | It is easy to minimize the impact of 128 jobs, but, like water being drained from a tank, a few drops at a time, there arises a point of reckoning. We should not make bigger future problems to sort for More.... |
| 849 | Fri Feb 08 09:15:17 EST 2013 | Willard Freeman | Portland, | |
| 848 | Thu Feb 07 18:20:26 EST 2013 | Denis MacMurray | ||
| 847 | Thu Feb 07 17:19:44 EST 2013 | Linda Luz | Myrtle Point, | |
| 846 | Mon Feb 04 14:41:04 EST 2013 | troy linden | portland, | |
| 845 | Mon Feb 04 08:56:54 EST 2013 | margie mcclure | portland, | |
| 844 | Sun Feb 03 21:26:28 EST 2013 | blanche dame | ||
| 843 | Sun Feb 03 19:56:17 EST 2013 | r.w. cory | fontana, | |
| 842 | Sun Feb 03 19:02:19 EST 2013 | JOAN WYCHOCKI | CHICAGO, | |
| 841 | Sun Feb 03 17:51:54 EST 2013 | Julie Miller | keokuk, | why should oregon invest oregon taxpayer's money with a company that takes jobs from oregon workers just because they are union workers.
the state should remove stae money from th KKR. |
| 840 | Sun Feb 03 17:51:23 EST 2013 | Julie Miller | keokuk, | why should oregon invest oregon taxpayer's money with a company that takes jobs from oregon workers just because they are union workers.
the state should remove stae money from th KKR. |
| 839 | Sun Feb 03 17:29:00 EST 2013 | Jere Armen | Branford, | One presumes that the whole point of your investment was to promote jobs in Oregon for Oregon workers. In future, perhaps you should insist on agreements that, in exchange for state investment, the companies More.... |
| 838 | Sun Feb 03 16:32:34 EST 2013 | James Schmitt | Monroe, | Not one penny for companies who threaten or move jobs ouot of state. Further, when "giving breaks" to companies job retention AND location retention is a no-brainer. Anything less is a breach of duty by More.... |
| 837 | Sun Feb 03 15:00:26 EST 2013 | kristie kaebisch | If they get money from Oregon to help then that's where that business should stay. The families that work for them have done their jobs and counted on the company to stay. Why do companies want employees More.... | |
| 836 | Sun Feb 03 14:28:59 EST 2013 | Adele Winston | State College, | Show them they can't exploit the people of Oregon in this way. |
| 835 | Sun Feb 03 14:04:53 EST 2013 | ddorinda tate | St louis mo, | The state invested money for the famils there. It should stay there. |
| 834 | Sun Feb 03 13:28:50 EST 2013 | Anthony Hedberg | I live in NYS and this same thing just happened here to Dal-Tile. The plant that was closed was the last union facility in the corporation named Mohawk Industries. 174 people lost their jobs. When will More.... | |
| 833 | Sun Feb 03 13:22:04 EST 2013 | Carol Harlow | Seattle, | |
| 832 | Sun Feb 03 12:37:40 EST 2013 | Frank Stuhr | Astoria, | Show them that Its bad business for them fir them too move protect Oregon jobs! |
| 831 | Sun Feb 03 12:28:58 EST 2013 | Stephany Suydam | To me the problem is that they are moving it to bust the union. Too many outsiders think unions are a problem these days because they do not understand the contribution unions have made in the past to More.... | |
| 830 | Sun Feb 03 11:50:19 EST 2013 | Jean Sheldon | Hillsboro, |
