 OhioRebel posted on ePluribus Media™ 10 December 2006: Quote: |
The season's greeting that 700 workers in Ohio received Friday is that their jobs will be gone by this time next year. Siemens Energy & Automation Inc. said it plans to close two plants in western Ohio and move the jobs to operations in Mexico or outsource the manufacturing to third-party suppliers, the Associated Press reported.
| Journalist Matthew J. Malone reported for the New York Times 6 December 2006: Quote: |
The submarine builder Electric Boat, a division of General Dynamics, plans to eliminate 1,000 jobs next year, the company announced yesterday.
| Journalist Charlie LeDuff reported for the New York Times 30 October 2006: Quote:
You may have seen Don Rackley before. You see people like him every election cycle. The human prop, he calls himself. He says it with a ring of bitterness.
He is the sort of man you see on television sitting at the counter of a diner in a down-and-out steel town, or a struggling textile town, some American place teetering on despair. The candidates come for the morning, roll up their sleeves, promise changes. The cameras snap the pictures. Then everybody leaves.
In February 2004, John Edwards, the senator from North Carolina and a White House hopeful, was that candidate in this part of the country, a place of chicken pens and cotton fields in the triangle of Nashville, Knoxville and Chattanooga. The region was once humming with factory jobs paying $15 an hour to start, with benefits and vacation. ...the Carrier Corporation, an industrial air-conditioning manufacturer and the financial anchor of Warren County, had just announced it was shutting its profitable plant and shipping many of the 1,300 jobs to Mexico, the latest in a string of closings in the area.
| Bloomberg News reported 4 October 2006: Quote: |
The Whirlpool Corporation, the world’s largest appliance maker, said yesterday that it would dismiss about 1,200 workers in Arkansas and Indiana and shift some of its production to a lower-wage factory in Mexico.
| It just goes on, and on, and... |