We're fairly independent to the point that if something were to really happen, we could be ripped away from the parent company and run independently.

Chuck Perko

Retirees are worried, will the company continue to exist, will their pensions stay solvent ? families want to know, is my husband or wife going to have a job tomorrow ?

Honestly, this job has afforded me everything I have today, i have always thought of this place as being American hands forging Chuck Perko steel.

I disdain what's going on over there, but my company is not Abramovich's company in my eyes -- and so it helps me sleep at night to know that we've got so much separation from the larger picture.

I have my own kids, so it makes it tough to sit there and see all this stuff going on and try turning a blind eye.