Sen. Schumer Fights to Keep Hickey Freeman

Workers at Rochester icon Hickey Freeman are fighting for their jobs. Last week, its parent company announced it's filing for bankruptcy. In the worst case scenario, the plant would close and more than 400 people would be out of work.
 Days after a loss in financing forced Hickey Freeman's parent company HMX to file for bankruptcy, worried workers rallied together.
 Guy Rebis is one of them.
 He's spent 39 years and counting on the factory floor as a presser.
 "It's almost like family because I've been here so long," he said. "Not just for me, for everyone else who's here. People who come here from another country."
 Fred Cotraccia came to Hickey Freeman from Italy, over 50 years ago.
 He's now retired, but joined the rally to support his friends and former colleagues.
  The possibility that the company could go under makes him nervous.
 He said "It would be very painful in a way. There's a lot of people that all they know how to do is sew and all that. Where are they gonna go except here?"
 Financing is now in place so HMX can keep the doors open, but nearly 450 workers could lose their jobs if a potential buyer decided to liquidate the company.
 Senator Schumer said "We want to tell those liquidators if you try and take the label and make these suits overseas you will not sell a single suit in America and we will make sure of that with an international boycott of those types of products!"
 It's a fight schumer says he's familiar with.
 "This is now the third time you've gone to bat for this company," said news 8's Tina Shively. "Why is this so important to you?"
 "Most importantly they're making money," Sen. Schumer replied. "For somebody to take all the sweat and blood of the workers and management and just say 'We're sending it off to china?' No way."
 Rebis added "I just know that because it's a very good product we will survive, you know? You have to be optimistic."
 The 113 year old company funneled money into Rochester through wars, the Great Depression and countless economic downturns, and continues to remain profitable today.
 Senator Schumer says he is in talks with 2 American-based buyers interested in Hickey Freeman, but would not identify them.