Procter and Gamble Plant Manager Trey Bloodworth spoke to Dougherty County Rotarians today about P&G’s structural disadvantages; sales tax on energy and heathcare costs.  

While none of Procter and Gamble’s sister plants have the tax, Georgia is one of only 10 states that does. The Albany plant has 33-percent higher healthcare costs compared to all Georgia plants total.  Bloodworth hopes for a change. 

“It’s been making improvement.  We need to continue to get that to at least to parity and really we should have an advantage being in the south, nationally there’s a 10-percent advantage in healthcare costs by being in the south normally.  We need to have that advantage to offset some of the other disadvantages that we have,” said Bloodworth.