Resolution of the Cortland County Legislators on Smith Corona

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RESOLUTION

3 We the County Legislators of the County of Cortland in the state of
“Few, York here do agree to:

— 1. Publicly denounce the Smith Corona decision to.move it's

Operations from the Cortland area to Mexico without consideration on‘ the
impact to it’s workers and the communities that they are a part of.

2. Support the workers of the Smith Corona plant located in
Cortland, New York in their effort to receive a fair and equable settlement
‘. from their employer Smith Corona Merchant. Also to support them in any future
“grievances which they might have with Smith Corona over matters dealing with
~ either medical and/or financial problems that may surface now or in the

future,
See : Se ~ Request from Smith Corona that they provide some sort of
Sa cel aid- and/or assistance for the community that has supported and

“helped in their growth throughout the last eighty-three (83) years, and is now
See with the aftermath of a disaster of, as yet, undetermined magnitude.

Sa 4. Make. sure that the Smith Corona Company is held responsible
for any. ‘damage that they might have wilfully or unwilfully caused to the
Sa gaviromentinCortiené- Cownty-which my. -be—known-now or may be uncovered in
_the. future.

a = sae 5. Try, to the best of our abilities, to prevent another move

of “any large employer from leaving the Cortland area solely for the purpose
“of monetary gains without regards for the people who were employed there or

the community that they helped support.