Let’s be clear about Corning.

Why is Corning now turning its back on the very workers that make it a leader in fiber optics technology?

We have a big task in front of us. At Corning fiber, we are on the front lines of an AI revolution. We're signing multi-billion dollar contracts with some of the biggest names in the tech industry. We should be working together with the voices on the job. All this stuff is a distraction from the job we could be doing together, but instead Corning is wasting its time, energy, and resources on union-busting campaigns.

Corning’s quality fiber optics products require attention to details, a high standard of workplace safety, and proper investment and training in the workforce. 

Why is Corning now turning its back on the very workers that make it a leader in fiber optics technology?

While Corning expands across North Carolina, instead of investing in its growing workforce to ensure the highest quality of product Corning is wasting money on illegal union-busting and dividing workers from one another. In many of its North Carolina facilities and others in states across the country — New York, New Jersey, Virginia and Kentucky — Corning collaborates with its workers through collective bargaining that brings out the best in its workforce. 

Corning is currently under investigation by the National Labor Relations Board for illegally surveilling workers as they spoke with union organizers at two North Carolina facilities. Would you want to work with a company that wastes resources on union-busting campaigns rather than letting workers exercise their constitutional rights? Money that could be better spent improving manufacturing facilities, increasing job opportunities for the region, and developing infrastructure is being squandered by Corning in a losing battle.

So let's be clear about Corning: they need to invest in their workforce and their facilities and stop with the frivolous nonsense union-busting. 

Innovation happens when the workers and the workplace are protected by a standard of quality, not when workers  are demonized by their own employers' rights to organize are taken away.

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