JobsOhio-Backed Chinese Company Undercuts Ohio Company And Other Bad News on the Jobs Front

I’d expect Ohio's 77,700 net jobs to fall to around 45,000 total, which would bring DeWine’s and JobsOhio’s net job growth over seven years down to just about 100,000 jobs, or just over 14,000/year.

Back in April 2025, I wrote about Fuyao in “Another JobsOhio “Success” Implodes—Plus, Seeing Around More Corners” in which I discussed the federal lawsuit filed against that Chinese company. Fuyao landed in Dayton during Governor John Kasich’s tenure, taking over the mothballed GM Moraine plant. Governor Mike DeWine and his sidekick Jon Husted bolstered Fuyao’s position in Dayton with additional support. As I wrote:

The U.S. Department of Justice filed a 74-page complaint against several companies, including Fuyao. In case you forgot, Fuyao is a glass company that JobsOhio-John Kasich-Barack Obama all heralded as a savior for the Greater Dayton area back in 2013. It turns out, Fuyao, a Chinese company, illegally imported Chinese and Hispanic workers to fill the jobs at the Dayton plant in Moraine. It isn’t clear how many of the 2,000 employees at the Dayton plant were illegal immigrants, but it was enough to warrant a federal investigation and indictment. If you read the indictment, the scheme used to get those workers across the southern border to Dayton and back-and-forth from work was quite complex and secretive.

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The punchline is that JobsOhio, the state government, and the federal government funded a Chinese company that illegally brought in foreign workers to undercut the employment opportunities of Ohioans in the Greater Dayton area. Only in Ohio do we not have to move the factory to China to still lose the jobs to Chinese workers.

For more details, read the piece from April. As it turns out, Fuyao didn’t just undercut Ohioans in the Dayton area when it brought in illegal immigrant laborers. It is worse than that.