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By Chelsey Levinsgton, Staff Writer 3:13 AM Sunday, February 5, 2012

HAMILTON — U.S. House Speaker John Boehner, R-West Chester Twp., will talk at ThyssenKrupp Bilstein of America Inc. on Monday about the U.S. House Republicans’ jobs plan.

This is the second time a major Republican politician has promoted their jobs plans at ThyssenKrupp, a manufacturer of shock absorbers for automobiles. Ohio Gov. John Kasich visited the plant in June to promote JobsOhio, the nonprofit agency formed in 2011 responsible for the state’s job creation efforts.

ThyssenKrupp is in the middle of a more than $6 million expansion project that creates 60 jobs and retains approximately 185 jobs. In October, the company expects to start producing the first active damping systems for shock absorbers in North America.

Boehner was invited to visit the Hamilton company. He will speak at about 9:15 a.m. about House Republicans’ efforts to create a better environment for job creation, according to his office.

“Speaker Boehner wants to applaud their efforts for creating jobs in the district,” said his spokeswoman Brittany Bramell.

The visit comes on the heels of the new U.S. unemployment report Friday for January. U.S. unemployment decreased to 8.3 percent in January from 8.5 percent in December, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

“There’s welcome news in this latest jobs report as more Americans found work last month, but the fact is our unemployment rate is still far too high. Our economy still isn’t creating jobs the way it should be and that’s why we need a new approach,” said Boehner in a statement Friday.

The news also came Friday that the Liz Claiborne distribution facility in West Chester Twp. will close Sept. 1, affecting 365 jobs.

The mass layoff notice is the fourth released for Butler County in 2012 by Ohio Department of Job and Family Services’ Office of Workforce Development. Job losses announced this year total 548 between Diversapack of Monroe, Liz Claiborne and Schneider Logistics Inc. of West Chester Twp.

Xanterra Parks & Resorts said last month it lost its contract to manage Hueston Woods Lodge in College Corner, but the 93 employees were offered their jobs with the new manager.

Mohawk Fine Papers of Hamilton closed in January, cutting another 137 jobs. SMART Papers of Hamilton will have cut more than 200 jobs if it closes this month. Pella Corp. of Fairfield also said in 2010 it would eliminate 198 jobs when it closes in 2012, but 40 jobs have already been shed by the company through attrition.

The House Republican Plan for America’s Job Creators proposes easing regulatory burden; reform of the tax code; passing pending free trade agreements; modernizing and improving the patent system; review of the visa system; reauthorizing U.S. FDA programs; modernizing domestic energy production; and paying down the country’s debt burden, according to the plan online at www.gop.gov.

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