Drug Maker Reconsidering $20 Million North Carolina Factory

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

Drug Maker Reconsidering $20 Million North Carolina Factory

By EMERY P. DALESIO, AP BUSINESS WRITER
RALEIGH, N.C. — Mar 31, 2016, 5:19 PM ET

North Carolina's governor met Thursday with gay-rights advocates bearing a letter signed by more than 100 corporate executives urging him to repeal the nation's first state law limiting the bathroom options for transgender people.

The law also excludes lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people from anti-discrimination protections, and blocks municipalities from adopting their own anti-discrimination and living wage rules.

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Some companies are already reconsidering doing business in the country's ninth-largest state.

New Jersey-based Braeburn Pharmaceuticals said it is "reevaluating our options based on the recent, unjust legislation" whether to build a $20 million manufacturing and research facility in Durham County. The 50 new jobs paying an average of nearly $76,000 a year were announced two weeks ago.

Lionsgate, the California-based entertainment company, had been lining up hotel and equipment rentals and hiring more than 100 workers in North Carolina, but decided to shoot its pilot episode for a comedy series in Canada instead, said Jennifer Irvine, a Charlotte production coordinator.

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Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/ceos-seek-repeal-north-carolina-law-38057174

[Lifelong Protester]

1. Good. I say give NC the Indiana treatment.

[LonePirate]

2. Money is the only way to defeat religious based bigotry with Repubs.

Some will never be swayed but I think there are still a majority of them who will change their view once it starts adversely impacting their bank accounts and budgets.