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April 20, 2008
WTOV
U.S. Senator Hears Concerns of Local Plant Workers
FOLLANSBEE, W.Va. -- A friendly handshake and a few laughs started off a meeting between Democratic West Virginia Sen. Jay Rockefeller and employees of the Wheeling-Nisshin plant in Follansbee on Sunday.
But the issues the plant workers wanted to discuss with the senator were no joke. Among their concerns, they discussed illegal aliens taking jobs from working people like them, while American companies send jobs overseas.
Rockefeller stopped by the plant because he said it's a success in the midst of a declining steel industry.
"I'm really proud of what they've done. They've got 180 people working, they say they're going to be near 100 percent capacity in their work this year. They haven't laid anybody off so I like that," said Rockefeller.
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