Layoffs, plant closing, Mexico, layoff, job cut, pink slip, closing.

[Bluebear]

BUFFALO, NY -An automobile industry parts maker with more than a century of history in Buffalo is about to close. Transpro's Tonawanda Street operation, formerly called Fedco Automotive Components, will shut down this June, according to the Connecticut-based company. The local plant's employment had dwindled to 54 people. But the operation's forerunner, Fedders Corp., traces its Buffalo roots to 1901, and boasted 900 unionized employees as recently as the early 1970s.

The plant's aluminium heater production is being moved to Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, where Transpro has had a plant since 1991. Some other work from the Buffalo plant had already been shifted there, which had created doubt about the long-range future of the local operation.
Goshen, IN - Close to 170 people will soon be without jobs in Goshen. On Monday, the controls group of Johnson Controls announced plans to close its manufacturing facility in Goshen. Most of the operations will be relocated to a company's facility in Mexico.
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WINOOSKI, Vt. The owners of a Winooski (Vermont) plant that makes electrical capacitors are moving the operation to Mexico, which will cause the loss of 125 local jobs in about six months.
York Capacitor's closure comes 13 months after York's owner sold the business to a South Carolina company.
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BLOOMINGTON, Ill. - Vickey Blake and nearly 500 former co-workers at General Electric Co.'s Bloomington refrigerator plant are now looking for a new line of work. GE has shifted production of its higher-priced refrigerator models to a plant in Celaya, Mexico - a move that has cut the Bloomington plant's work force of more than 1,600 employees by nearly a third.
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FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. -- About 675 workers will lose their jobs when Black & Decker Corp. closes its Fayetteville plant and moves operations out of state by December 2006, the company said Wednesday.
The plant's operations will move to Jackson, Tenn., and Reynosa, Mexico, the company said.
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EAGAN, Minn. - Northwest Airlines informed 600 Minnesota mechanics they would be laid off on Wednesday as part of a previously announced plan to cut up to 930 mechanics jobs this year.
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Auto Resources Group, the company that operates vehicle loading railroad terminals at Ford Motor Co.'s Louisville Assembly Plant and Kentucky Truck Plant, has filed a notice with the state of Kentucky that it plans to lay off 300 workers.
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HOFFMAN ESTATES, Ill. (AP) — Sears Holdings (SHLD) says it plans to lay off at least 500 people at its headquarters near Chicago, according to a revised report filed with Illinois' Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity. Last week, the department posted a "mass layoff" notice on its Web site that Sears Holdings planned a mass layoff of at least 250 employees. But this week, the department posted a revised filing that says the company will eliminate at least 500 workers.
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NORTH CANTON, Ohio - Talks are progressing over Maytag Corp.'s ``tentative plan'' to slash as many as 378 jobs at North Canton's Hoover plant. Maytag officials were in town Wednesday and may return next week to meet with the union, said Jim Repace, president of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 1985.
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LEXINGTON, N.C. - The troubled Duracell plant will close next year at a cost of 280 jobs, though company officials blamed the decision on declining demand, not the cost of cleaning up contaminated ground.
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MONTGOMERY, Ala. - Three-hundred and sixty-five workers will soon lose their jobs after their employer, ConAgra Foodservice announced it will cease operations at its 11-year-old Montgomery plant in early May.
The Nebraska-based company informed workers yesterday that the meat processing plant on the city's westside will shut down on May 6.
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[UdoKier]

1. Ah, what's a few THOUSAND jobs here or there?!

It's all part of the wonderful process of leveling the global playing field, right, globalist bastards?

[HughBeaumont]

2. Bush LAUGHS at your plights, wage slaves!

Rich fat old men NEED to be richer. Whoever dies with the most WINS!! Don't you know how this WORKS by now?

[earth mom]

9. And those rich bastards are gonna take all that money

with them to the great beyond.... :eyes:

[Ganja Ninja]

3. They're paving the way for future tax hikes for the rich.

When the poor and middle class don't have an income because they've lost their jobs who's left to tax?

[Horse with no Name]

5. At that point we have nothing

and I wonder how far we are from debtors prisons, indentured servitude and slavery.

[acmavm]

4. Great job george. Your tax cuts for the rich are sure creating a lot

of wonderful jobs for us Americans. <sarcasm off>

Why are people from Mexico sneaking across the border to come here? Pretty soon Mexico will be where all the jobs are and we'll be the ones sneaking across the border.

[SammyWinstonJack]

6. Might have to make the commute to the border

tho' the price of gas would make make that commute prohibitive

[Bluebear]

7. I had that exact thought

Thousands of Texans going over the border in a pathetic attempt to make a living/

[meegbear]

8. WINOOSKI!!

I love the name of that place. Sounds like a third rate college hockey town. But they got a great sandwich shop there.

[Bluebear]

10. for the night shift