In an interview in Beijing, Mr. Cao said he had replaced Mr. Burrows and Mr. Gauthier because “they didn’t do their jobs but squandered my money.” He lamented<br />that productivity at the plant “is not as high as we have in China,” adding that “some of the workers are just idling around.”<br />Athena Hou, the chief legal officer for Fuyao Glass America, called Mr. Burrows’s suit “legally meritless.” Mr. Gauthier<br />and Mr. Burrows did not respond to requests for comment.<br />Fred Strahorn, the Democratic minority leader of the Ohio House of Representatives, told the audience<br />that Fuyao’s operation felt like “a little bit of a hostage situation” and pledged to “show Fuyao that we do things a little bit different in Dayton, Ohio.”<br />In November, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration fined Fuyao more than $225,000 for violations such as insufficient access to locks<br />that shut down power to a machine when workers fix or maintain it.<br />Culture Clash at a Chinese-Owned Plant in Ohio -<br />By NOAM SCHEIBER and KEITH BRADSHERJUNE 10, 2017<br />MORAINE, Ohio — When a giant Chinese glassmaker arrived here in 2014<br />and began spending what would become more than a half-billion dollars to fix up an abandoned General Motors plant, it seemed like a tale from opposite land: The Chinese are supposedly stealing American jobs — as no less an authority than President Trump has pointed out.
