A big shame this had to happen. But look, the original good guys that operated Kurdziel for 75 years were no longer the prime stockholders. They were the ones the original state funds/tax abatements/tax credits were given to. Not some NEW YORK CROOKS! The Fed. & State agencies that gave those credits should immediately retract them. Unless, it means that somehow, someway, the original Kurdziel people would come back into the picture of ownership. This is a lousy way for a prime employer in our area to have to go out: again, by the money hungry greedy CEO's up in NEW YORK. They should be brought up on Federal fraud charges and extradited to Michigan to stand charges and seize all their assets to set an example for other crooks doing these back door deals.

YET another plan by the GOVERNOR that we are BLOWN AWAY by.....

Its a shame this has to happen I understand this is a non union shop. If it was a union shop it would have been closed long ago.

This is in fact a union shop.

AGSP thank you for letting it be known they are a union shop. In that case the union members got theirs through union contracts. I hope if the foundry re opens they bust the union and they will see their profits and worker productivity go up drastically. Good job Rothbury foundry owners.

As a wife of one of the workers for this company, I have seen many crooked things done by the previous owners and the current ones. My husband worked for this company for the past 22 yrs and all he has to show for it is a injury that prevents him from being hired by anyone else. And as far as them getting theirs through union contracts, obviosly you have never worked for a union, these men slaved hard for what little raises they did receive. It just burns me that people that have no clue as to whats going on or what happened need to get on here and criticize people because it was a union shop. I just hope that these men & women that worked there will able to find work in these tuff times.

Look guys, people are people, union or non-union, these people are out of work! PROBABLY FOREVER AT KURDZIEL! A lot of Ludington people will be affected negatively, and that costs all of us.