Full Text of HR1105 99th General Assembly
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| 1 | | HOUSE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, In 2013, free trade agreements with the United | 3 | | States benefited the State of Illinois by accounting for nearly | 4 | | 54% of goods exported from the State, totaling approximately | 5 | | $35.7 billion; and
| 6 | | WHEREAS, In 2015, the City of Chicago lost nearly 2,000 | 7 | | manufacturing jobs and the State of Illinois lost more than | 8 | | 7,000; and
| 9 | | WHEREAS, Mondelez International has almost 3,000 employees | 10 | | in the State of Illinois, who work at one of three different | 11 | | manufacturing facilities, its global headquarters office, or | 12 | | in sales/distribution at sites throughout the State; and | 13 | | WHEREAS, The National Biscuit Company, which formally | 14 | | changed its corporate name to Nabisco, operates a bakery on | 15 | | Chicago's Southwest side at 7300 S. Kedzie Avenue, where some | 16 | | of the most popular food brands in America are made, such as | 17 | | Oreo and Chips Ahoy cookies and Ritz and Premium crackers; and | 18 | | WHEREAS, Philip Morris Companies, Inc. acquired Nabisco | 19 | | and merged it with Kraft Foods in 2001; and | 20 | | WHEREAS, In 2012, Kraft Foods split from Nabisco, creating |
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| 1 | | a separate parent company called Mondelez International for its | 2 | | snack food business, including the Nabisco operations at 7300 | 3 | | S. Kedzie Avenue; and | 4 | | WHEREAS, Mondelez International announced in July of 2015 | 5 | | that it would be removing older, inefficient manufacturing | 6 | | lines from its plant on Kedzie Avenue, impacting almost 600 of | 7 | | 1,200 jobs; and | 8 | | WHEREAS, Over 20 years ago in 1993, Nabisco, Inc., the | 9 | | previous owner of the Kedzie Avenue plant, cited much-needed | 10 | | upgrades as the reason for proposing an outsourcing of its | 11 | | plant; local authorities responded to Nabisco's concerns and | 12 | | provided support for the plant upgrades; the Department of | 13 | | Commerce and Community Affairs extended an enterprise zone to | 14 | | accommodate Nabisco with a multi-million dollar tax incentive | 15 | | package over the course of 10 years if the company invested in | 16 | | itself; the City of Chicago's Department of Planning and | 17 | | Development established a tax increment financing district to | 18 | | support investment in modernization of the plant within three | 19 | | years, and the acquisition and development of an adjacent | 20 | | property at 7600 S. Kedzie Avenue that could result in $35 | 21 | | million dollars in tax savings; and | 22 | | WHEREAS, In 2012, the City of Chicago's Department of | 23 | | Housing and Economic Development prematurely terminated the |
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| 1 | | designation of the 73rd and Kedzie Avenue tax increment | 2 | | financing district; and | 3 | | WHEREAS, In July of 2015, Mondelez International announced | 4 | | plans to move the production lines currently at the Kedzie | 5 | | Avenue plant to the newly built state of the art facility in | 6 | | Salinas, Mexico; and | 7 | | WHEREAS, The union workers at the Chicago Nabisco bakery | 8 | | have been producing high-quality baked goods for more than 50 | 9 | | years and have dedicated decades of their lives to fuel the | 10 | | company's financial success; and | 11 | | WHEREAS, Manufacturing jobs are needed to provide for | 12 | | adequate income for families, support for public services to | 13 | | keep our communities safe, effective education of our children, | 14 | | and additional employment opportunities; and
| 15 | | WHEREAS, A sound economic base, tied to good paying jobs, | 16 | | is necessary to create opportunities within our communities; | 17 | | and
| 18 | | WHEREAS, Work created by companies doing business the State | 19 | | of Illinois are essential for the well-being of communities; | 20 | | and
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| 1 | | WHEREAS, The State of Illinois expects corporate partners | 2 | | to make an earnest effort to retain and promote future capital | 3 | | investment in the State of Illinois; therefore, be it
| 4 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 5 | | NINETY-NINTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we | 6 | | urge Mondelez International to identify ways to invest in its | 7 | | plants across the State; and be it further | 8 | | RESOLVED, That we encourage Mondelez International and the | 9 | | members of the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain | 10 | | Millers Local 300, International Association of Machinists and | 11 | | Aerospace Workers District 8, and the International Union of | 12 | | Operating Engineers Local 399 to find ways to maintain their | 13 | | relationship and maintain jobs within the State of Illinois and | 14 | | engage in discussions with the immediate communities that they | 15 | | operate in; and be it further
| 16 | | RESOLVED, That suitable copies of this resolution be | 17 | | delivered to Mondelez International; Bakery, Confectionery, | 18 | | Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers Local 300; International | 19 | | Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers District 8; and | 20 | | the International Union of Operating Engineers Local 399.
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