Lockheed Martin laying off hundreds, closing Akron OH facility

[OhioChick]

Source: Newsnet5

Posted: 9:21 AM

AKRON, Ohio - Lockheed Martin is laying off hundreds of employees at its Akron facility, the company announced Thursday.

The 677,000 square foot facility will close by early 2015 and mean the elimination of 500 jobs.

The official notice follows reports earlier in the month that the move was possible as the global aerospace giant considered consolidating its operations.



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And the bleeding of jobs in Ohio continues.

[zbdent]

1. Odd, considering that John Kasich got elected with the help of a commercial

which pointed out that NCR (a heavy donor to REPUBLICANS, unstated in the commercials) moved out of Ohio on the Democratic Governor's watch.

Yet Lockheed Martin, a DEFENSE CONTRACTOR, is gone under Kasich's watch ... and he'll probably blame the Akron mayor (a Dem). Nothing's ever a Republican's fault.

[SDjack]

2. Repugs failed to start war with Iran this year and failed to negotiate their offer to Pres. Obama

to trade sequestration cuts in social programs for increases in military budget.

[L0oniX]

3. ...due to lack of enough war.