Former Fuyao Employees Share Experiences of Misery in Dayton, Ohio

Dayton, Ohio – Former workers of Fuyao Glass America Inc., a glass manufacturer with Chinese links that took over an old General Motors plant in Ohio, recently shared their difficult experiences. Speaking at a meeting in Dayton at the International Union of Electrical Workers, ex-employees voiced their grievances about conditions at the company.

My experience at Fuyao was not a good experience, stated Tiffany Moore, who worked at the factory for three years. The heat in there is unbearable; they don’t care, she added during the meeting, which included Congressman Ro Khanna from California.

Rep. Khanna, involved in overseeing Chinese Communist Party (CCP) activities as part of his role in the House Select Subcommittee, traveled to Dayton for Congressional oversight on Fuyao. He requested information from Fuyao concerning wage issues, working conditions, and any potential violations of U.S. labor and immigration laws.

Khanna noted that Fuyao offered only one reply letter, which failed to provide substantive answers to the committee’s questions or deliver relevant documents. A generous interpretation of your approach toward this investigation would be that Fuyao does not appreciate Congress’s oversight function and the American system of government, Khanna wrote in a communication sent to Fuyao’s leadership.

Despite the absence of consent to visit the plant, Khanna participated in a roundtable discussion with former workers. Demetria Hodges, who worked at Fuyao for five years, described efforts by the company to discourage union formation. First they were trying to use scare tactics to get us to not vote for the union, she said. The company promised a $2 an hour pay raise, which was never repeated in the subsequent ten years.

An individual named Darrell, another former employee, highlighted the company’s reaction to a tragic industrial accident. When that guy got smashed by … glass, we had to work the next day, we were stressed out, Darrell recounted. Despite the traumatic event, operations continued without pause, adding stress on the workers.