Washington Post: Managers had informed Klima and other union leaders in January that Conn Selmer was closing its Eastlake plant. Some production would move to a nonunion factory in Elkhart, Indiana. The rest was going to China, where the company had begun building a $21 million manufacturing facility in 2024 in Jiangsu province, union leaders said they were told.
…“Together we will reclaim our nation’s destiny as the number one manufacturing superpower in the world,” Donald Trump said on the campaign trail in August 2024. “We will do it, and China won’t even be close. Nobody will be.”…