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. 🇺🇸
🚨 RUBIO JUST SAID THE NUMBER THEY NEVER WANTED ON TV 🚨
Americans work 40 years.
They retire.
Social Security: $800. $900. A thousand a month.
Somebody who got here from Cuba three months ago: $1,500 a month.
Marco Rubio said it out loud.
“So imagine if you’ve been working here for 40 years and your Social Security check is smaller than the benefits going to a 28-year-old, able-bodied person who just got here. That’s real. That happens. That’s happening every day. That makes no sense.”
You paid in.
They landed.
They beat your check.
That’s not compassion.
That’s a slap in the face with your own tax dollars.
So @KarlRove says he's not going to vote for @bofrench in November. Rove now admits that he believes "trans rights are human rights." Rove also believes that it's okay to change the sex of a baby listed on its official birth certificate. And Rove also opposes the Parent's Bill of Rights. Rove is the poster child for everything wrong with the Republican Party.
@BernieSanders Let me interject one thing here ... the BOARD of the Kennedy Center VOTED to include Trump's name on the building. POTUS did not arbitrarily change the name on the building. But of course you know that.
Some people age like fine wine. Some (like you) age like rancid vinegar.
After the first quarter everyone is waving to the Children’s Hospital that’s next to the stadium and the kids watching the game from their windows are waving back. Literal goosebumps.🥹
We are here in Kinnick Stadium!!! What a beautiful stadium. And we even made it onto the field for the warm up!
Also the student section behind us is going crazy already⚫️🟡🌽
Kenneth Marino of FDNY Rescue Ladder 1 loved his children, his wife and baseball - specifically, Ken Griffey Jr.
🎥 MLB Network Special: When America Took the Field - tonight at 10pm ET
I want this. I need this. My husband is buried at Arlington, right behind where that arch will stand.
For almost 20 years, I’ve come through those gates knowing that on the other side is someone I loved, someone who gave his life for this country, surrounded by thousands of others who did the same.
So when I look at that rendering, I don’t see some unnecessary monument. I see a gateway worthy of the sacred ground behind it. I see something that tells every person who passes beneath it that they are entering a place where America keeps its heroes.
Maybe “no one” is a little too broad. Some of us want this very much. 😊