Every year, Chuck commits to traveling to all62 counties in New York to meet with constituents.
After Siemens Energy announced plans earlier this year to close their Olean manufacturing plant, U.S. Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer met with impacted workers in Olean and called on Siemens to sell the plant to a manufacturer that will maintain the current manufacturing jobs, many of them unionized steelworkers. Schumer urged Siemens to minimize the impact of the plant’s sale and explained that preserving each of the nearly 1,000 jobs is integral to the economic health of the entire region.