Produced for Netflix, this moving film reveals what happened when a Chinese company rescued a US factory – and ignited a fight for workers’ rights. We meet its makersAt the end of 2014, a Chinese billionaire named Cao Dewang bought the General Motors factory in Dayton, Ohio. His plan was to turn the closed plant into the US outlet of Fuyao, his global windscreen and automobile glass empire. This would involve bringing staff over from China to work side by side on the factory floor with their American counterparts, training them and creating around 2,000 jobs.“We read it in the newspapers!” says Julia Reichert, mimicking the optimism the town felt. “The plant’s going to reopen! Somebody bought it. We’re manufacturing again. Wow!” Continue reading…
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President Trump called me for a chat on Saturday. It was our first conversation since he unfollowed me on Twitter in April after I wrote a Mail column telling him to ‘Shut the f*ck up Read more…