Keep Sealy Mattress Co. in Portland!

Right now the investment firm KKR is threatening to move 128 family wage factory jobs out of Oregon. 

The personal part of this for me is more than my love of sleep! Those 128 family wage factory jobs have a special place in my heart and the history of my family: My grandmother, Mathilda "Tillie" Beach, an immigrant from the Ukraine of German descent, worked at that factory from the age of 19 until her retirement decades later. She began as a seamstress and, later in her career, was a floor manager. 

KKR now owns the company and would like to move production to another state and re-establish it with lower cost non-union workers. Moving Sealy would be a blow to the Portland economy while the parent company, KKR, manages and profits from $3 BILLION of the state government's investments.

I signed a petition to George Roberts, Co-Chief Executive Officer, KKR, which says:

"Mr. Roberts: We call on you to lift your threat to close your Oregon factory and stop your effort to move 128 union jobs out of the state. As the leader of an investment firm that receives BILLIONS of dollars of Oregon's investment money we call on you to not take the state's money and run."

Will you sign this petition? Click here:

http://signon.org/sign/kkr-dont-take-oregons?source=s.icn.em.mt&r_by=6829962

Thanks!