Two French workers from a Molex plant in France that will be shuttered and the jobs moved to China or Vietnam flew to Chicago last week to meet with shareholders regarding the logistics surrounding the closing. More than two hundred fifty workers will lose their jobs due to the closure and according to the union representing the workers the U.S.-based company has been unresponsive to demands from the French union representing the workers. However, when the two workers arrived at the shareholders meeting they were denied entry.

By Doug Cunningham

Labor is urging President Obama to force French subsidies to be taken into account as Boeing and the French EADS/Airbus again compete for a military air refueling tanker contract. At stake are 44,000 U.S. jobs that will stay in the U.S. if Boeing gets the contract.