>Sabian Cymbals in New Brunswick, Canada, in 1981.Based on various interviews about the history of Zildjian & Sabian brothers splitting up, the Sabian Canada factory was originally a Zildjian 2nd site purposely placed outside of the USA.
The brothers felt the Zildjian Canada factory solved 2 problems:
1) contingency factory that wasn't affected by unionizing labor in Boston MA.
2) easier (cheaper?) export logistics to Europe market from Canada. Don't remember the exact details.
Deep link to Robert Zildjian interview talking in "polite language" about the union labor unrest as one motivation for creating the Canada factory:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dv30TRytOk4&t=13m28s
Another interview talked about the Europe market but I can't find that video.
That Sabian interview always stuck with me because it isn't just the big companies like Amazon, Tesla, Starbucks, etc avoiding unionization. It's also the small family companies like Zildjian that worked around unions. Another video somewhere had the other Zildjian brother (Armand) talk about the unions but he wasn't as polite.
EDIT to add another interview from Paul Francis (podcast mp3) about Zildjian opening the Canada factory in 1968 in response to the Teamsters unionization efforts in the USA. Relevant section starts at 45m20s : https://www.discussionsinpercussion.com/home/2020/2/5/162-pa...
Based on various interviews about the history of Zildjian & Sabian brothers splitting up, the Sabian Canada factory was originally a Zildjian 2nd site purposely placed outside of the USA.
The brothers felt the Zildjian Canada factory solved 2 problems:
1) contingency factory that wasn't affected by unionizing labor in Boston MA.
2) easier (cheaper?) export logistics to Europe market from Canada. Don't remember the exact details.
Deep link to Robert Zildjian interview talking in "polite language" about the union labor unrest as one motivation for creating the Canada factory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dv30TRytOk4&t=13m28s
Another interview talked about the Europe market but I can't find that video.
That Sabian interview always stuck with me because it isn't just the big companies like Amazon, Tesla, Starbucks, etc avoiding unionization. It's also the small family companies like Zildjian that worked around unions. Another video somewhere had the other Zildjian brother (Armand) talk about the unions but he wasn't as polite.
EDIT to add another interview from Paul Francis (podcast mp3) about Zildjian opening the Canada factory in 1968 in response to the Teamsters unionization efforts in the USA. Relevant section starts at 45m20s : https://www.discussionsinpercussion.com/home/2020/2/5/162-pa...