PRINTER'S NO. 2395
No. 172 Session of 1984
INTRODUCED BY LESCOVITZ, COLAFELLA, ALDERETTE, LAUGHLIN AND
PRATT, JANUARY 23, 1984
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON RULES, JANUARY 23, 1984
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
1 Urging the Governor to use full force of the Commonwealth of
2 Pennsylvania to aid retired workers of Colt Industries.
3 WHEREAS, Colt Industries of New York has permanently closed
4 the doors of the former Crucible Steel Plant in Midland,
5 Pennsylvania, leaving thousands of former workers unemployed;
6 and
7 WHEREAS, Colt Industries received a $241 million dollar tax
8 write-off when it closed the plant; and
9 WHEREAS, In exit interviews more than 4,000 workers were
10 informed that they would continue to receive medical benefits;
11 and
12 WHEREAS, Colt Industries has now informed the United
13 Steelworkers--but not the former workers--that the company
14 planned to end medical benefits on February 4, 1984; and
15 WHEREAS, This move will have a devastating effect on the
16 former workers and their families, and also result in increased
17 expenditures by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in the field of
1 health and medical benefits; and
2 WHEREAS, The former employees deserve better treatment at the
3 hands of an employer that benefitted from their years of hard
4 work; and
5 WHEREAS, Colt Industries did not "shoot straight" with former
6 employees; therefore be it
7 RESOLVED (the Senate concurring), That the General Assembly
8 of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania officially go on record as
9 opposing the withdrawal of medical benefits from former
10 employees of Colt Industries; and be it further
11 RESOLVED, That the Governor of the Commonwealth of
12 Pennsylvania throw the full weight of his office and the
13 administrative branch behind the efforts to stop the action by
14 Colt Industries; and be it further
15 RESOLVED, That the Governor of the Commonwealth of
16 Pennsylvania, along with legislators from the effected area,
17 schedule a meeting with Colt Industries in an effort to stop
18 this action; and be it further
19 RESOLVED, That the Governor of the Commonwealth of
20 Pennsylvania use all legal forces of the Office of General
21 Counsel to halt this action.
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