General Electric Worker Feels 'Betrayed' By Co-Workers

The modular processing plant is a semi-mobile, three stage plant with a mobile jaw crusher that will be used onsite to reduce the size of ore extracted.

The secondary jaw crusher and cone crusher will be installed at Kaboko's railing siding near Serenje, Zambia by the end of the June quarter 2013.

Following initial crushing, Symons cone crusher onsite ore from the Northern Manganese Project will be trucked to the rail siding for further crushing and processing before being sent to port via rail.

The plant is capable of taking raw manganese ore at a feed size of 300 millimetres at a rate of 80 to 100 tonnes per hour to produce a crushed ore size of 20 millimetres.

China buys roughly 25 percent of the U.S. soybeans exported each year, said Jim Willers, a rural Beaver Creek farmer. While in Beijing, the group met with the U.S. Embassy counsel for agriculture in China and the U.S. Soybean Export Federation. Then they toured a 3,500-head dairy east of Beijing and toured a small soy ingredient plant in Yantia where lecithin and soy powder are manufactured. From Yantia, the group traveled to fast-growing Shenzhen. Willers said they learned of plans by the Chinese to build three new large soybean crushing plants in Shenzhen within the next three years.

Now some workers at the General Electric Ohio Lamp Plant in Warren are bracing for what the future might hold after members of the IUE-CWA Teamsters Local 722 rejected a tentative agreement on Monday.

"This is crushing for us," said Greg Gotti of Champion, Cone crusher an 18-year General Electric employee.

Gotti is a third-generation lamp maker. His father and grandfather worked for General Electric.