Resolution of the Board of Supervisors of the City of Cortland on Smith Corona

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RESOLUTION

We the Board of Supervisors of the City of Cortland in the
State of New York hereby agree that:

1. We publicly denounce Smith Corona's decision to move it's
operations from the Cortland area to Mexico without consideration
of the impact to it's workers and the communities to which they are
eepart; and

2. We support the workers of the Smith Corona pliant located
in the Town of Cortlandville and who live mainly in and around our
city in their efforts to receive a fair and equitable settlement
form their employer, Smith Corona Merchant. We also pledge to
support them in their just grievances which they may have with
Smith Corona over matters dealing with either medical or financial
hardships that may surface now or in the future; and

3. We request form Smith Corona that they provide some sort
of financial compensation and/or assistance for the community that
has supported and assisted in its growth throughout the last
eighty-three (83) years, and is now left with the aftermath of a
disaster of as yet undetermined magnitude; and

4. We will ensure that the Smith Corona Compan is held
responsibie for any damage that they might have wilfully or
unwilfully caused to the environment of Cortland County which may

be known now or in the future; and

t we endeavour to prevent other such moves of any large
om leaving the Cortland area solely for the purpose of
ins without regard or consideration for the people who
d in these corporations or the communities that support

6. That we oppose the attempts of the Federal Government

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negotiate trade agreements with neighboring countries that do not
provide for the secure employment of our citizens, such as the
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the Generalized

Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT).

This resolution is submitted by the Tompkins/Cortland Labor
Coalition on behalf of its members in Cortland County and the
workers of Smith Corona. Original text of this resolution was
written by Duanne McConnel, Linda Feehan and Bob Lewis of United
Automobile Workers Local 1326 at Pall Bernat Cortland County.