Unions blasting Foley for Pennsylvania labor unrest in 1990

State labor leaders this hour are holding a news conference in Haddam to attack Republican gubernatorial candidate Tom Foley over allegations that he profited off of striking workers when he owned a manufacturing company in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania called T.B. Wood’tom1s. The strike was in 1990 and Foley sold the company in 2007. They are claiming that Foley made $40 million while the strike split families. The event, featuring Lori Pelletier, Connecticut AFL-CIO Executive Secretary and Julie Kushner, Director of United Auto Workers Region 9, is being held in the Higganum section of Haddam, a short distance from downtown Middletown, where Foley is scheduled to take a walking tour later this afternoon.