manufactures a synthetic light weight material that is incredibly warm and durable. Many brands such as REI, and Eddie Bauer use its fabric in their winter clothing line Vortech is currently run by the founder's grandson, Bill Frost. Freedom is a "right to work" state meaning that employees can't be forced to join a union. However, Bill Frost (Vortech current CEO and the grandson of its founder) ha always encouraged union participation and supported the union. Given his own political and moral philosophy, Frost has always negotiated with the union in good faith. One of the provisions of the current union contract is that employees will be paid 75% of their current salary due to unexpected closures of Vortech's plant due to ove production, plant re-tooling, or other non-force majeure circumstances. However, Vortech may refuse to pay salary during a closure as a result of force majeure. In the early morning hours of May 5 of this year, the Vortech plant was hit by a tornado. Bill Frost vowed to re-build the plant even though many of Vortech's competitors have left the State of Freedom and moved to Mexico where labor is cheap, unions are unheard of, and environmental regulations are lax. Even though not contractually bound to continue to pay employees in this event, Frost says that he will continue to pay employees 65% of salary and maintain benefits during the re-building of the plant. 5 Initially, These decision by Frost initial went without negative results. However, due to a strike by metal workers in the State of Union (a non-right to work state), the re- building of