In 2005, Oneida shut the flatware factory in Sherrill, New York.
A town that had made silverware for MORE THAN 100 YEARS was supposed to be finished.
Two men refused to let that happen.
Their names are Matt Roberts and Greg Owens.
Roberts had managed that factory. Owens was another former Oneida manufacturing manager. When the company ended U.S. production, they bought the plant and the equipment and reopened it the NEXT DAY as Sherrill Manufacturing.
They did not have a giant rescue fund.
They did not have a Hollywood ending waiting.
They had a building, some machines, and a workforce that knew how to make forks, knives, and spoons.
At first they kept making product for Oneida.
Then Oneida pulled the remaining American work and sent it overseas.
That should have been the end.
It wasn’t.
They took government flatware contracts to keep the lights on. In 2010 they filed Chapter 11. They sold unused equipment. They sold space they could no longer fill. They leased back only the part of the factory they could still run.
They came out of bankruptcy in 2013.
Then they did the thing that saved the company.
They built their own brand: Liberty Tabletop.
They sold 18/10 stainless flatware straight to customers who wanted tableware MADE IN THE UNITED STATES.
Not through a department store that could drop them overnight.
Direct.
Today Liberty Tabletop is the only company still manufacturing stainless steel flatware in America.
Same town.
Same trade.
U.S. steel.
About 70 jobs.
They did not bring back 2,000 workers. Nobody did.
What they saved was the last line.
If you want American-made forks and spoons, this is the factory that still makes them.
Support Liberty Tabletop.
THIS is what keeping manufacturing in America actually looks like. 🇺🇸
The Scottish Teenage Girl who went viral after she defended herself from an attacker was CLEARED in court. Let's show this girl that TENS OF MILLIONS of Americans support her!
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We are #OneBillionScreams
On September 21, 2007, Emily Elizabeth Haddock was taking the day off from school to recover from strep throat. Meanwhile, a group of teenagers were knocking on doors in the neighborhood, pretending to need directions. If no one came to the door of a home, the young men would enter and burglarize it. When they arrived at Emily's house, she was in a back room, working on a puzzle. Michael Currie and his associates broke in and discovered the 12-year-old girl home alone, so they shot her in the mouth and the back of the head. Emily's grandfather found her lifeless body when he came to check in on her.
🚨#BREAKING: Hundreds of people in the Black community are calling for a White man to be jailed for ATTEMPTED M*RDER and racial hate crimes after he fired his gun at a deranged Black man...
...who RIPPED OPEN a car door and STRANGLED A WHITE FEMALE at a gas station!!!!!
The footage shows a Black man approach a white Toyota SUV, tries the doors and bangs on a window.
The confrontation escalates and he pulls the woman out, shoves her, hits her as she fights back.
She manages to get inside...
...and he opens the door and pulls her out AGAIN, this time his hands go around her neck
..again, this is happening in broad daylight
The woman eventually gets the door locked and the man walks into the convenience store.
When he comes back out and passes the SUV, the driver, a White man opens fire on the Black man.
NBC reports the driver stayed at the scene and the man who was sh0t is in critical condition.
Hundreds of people in the Black community on Facebook are saying that the White man with the gun should be put in jail FOR LIFE for attempted m*rder and racial hate crimes for firing his weapon at a Black man while he was fleeing the scene.