[ [link removed] ]Francesca Hong for Governor[ [link removed] ]Francesca Hong for Governor



Jack,

On Monday, Wells Vehicle Electronics filed a notice with the state of
Wisconsin to permanently shut down two facilities in Fond du Lac. One
hundred workers — assemblers, technicians, warehouse staff, some of them
union members — will lose their jobs.

Wells has been in Fond du Lac since 1903. They got their start making
ignition coils for the Ford Model T — the car that put America on wheels.
That's over a century of workers making things in Wisconsin. And now a $9
billion multinational parent company that just posted record sales is
shutting it down. This isn't a company that couldn't afford to stay. It's
a company that decided Wisconsin workers weren't worth keeping.

And here's what makes it worse: In 2012, Wisconsin taxpayers helped pay to
expand the very facility that's closing now — a forgivable loan from the
county, a TIF district from the city, and over a million dollars in state
tax credits. They took the investment and they're walking away.

That's the deal workers keep getting. Corporations take the tax breaks,
take the labor, take generations of loyalty from a community — and when
the spreadsheet changes, they close the plant and move on. The workers are
the last to know and the first to pay.

That's why I co-authored the Economic Justice Bill of Rights. And as
governor, I'll fight for working people. 

No company should be able to take public dollars and then lay off the
workers who made them profitable. If you benefit from Wisconsin taxpayers,
you owe something to Wisconsin workers. That's not radical — it's the
basic deal, and we're going to put it in writing.

We're going to protect the right to organize — because when workers have a
union, they have a seat at the table before the decision gets made, not
after the notice gets filed. Wisconsin's unionization rate has been cut in
half since 2011. That wasn't an accident. It was a political choice, and
we're going to reverse it.

And we're going to guarantee paid leave — because when you lose your job,
you shouldn't also lose the ability to take care of your family while you
figure out what's next.

The Economic Justice Bill of Rights is built for the people in Fond du Lac
and every community where this story keeps playing out. As governor, I’ll
hold corporations accountable. 

But we're building this movement without PAC money — which means we need
you.

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In solidarity,

Fran







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