Webster City Employment -> Mexico
This has not been a banner week so far for Iowa workers. From the Des Moines Register:
About 700 jobs will be cut from the Electrolux/Frigidaire laundry products factory in Webster City beginning late in 2007, Electrolux said today.The factory now employs about 2,000 people, but some work will be transferred to a new plant to be built in Mexico at a cost of more than $100 million, said Blythe Reiss, a spokeswoman for Augusta, Ga.-based Electrolux Major Appliances-North America, a part of The Electrolux Group, a Swedish company.
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Electrolux said [the new Mexican plant] is expected to cost more than $100 million to build and equip, and will account for most of $139 million that the company plans to invest in its North American laundry business.The Mexican plant is expected to employ about 800, the company said.
This follows on the news that Isabel Bloom is moving production from Davenport to China. (As a follow on to that story, they get letters.)
- Sousy
February 14th, 2006 at 3:15 pm
This is just sad. As an American, what can we do to register our disgust at what has become habitual outsourcings other than boycott the given companies products?
Does anyone know of a site that categorizes and keeps track of “U.S.” companies that have dipped into the foreign, cheap-labor trough the heaviest?
I, for one, don’t want to be complicit in sustaining companies that apparently don’t give a rat’s ass about the actual people they employ. Eh, I know – welcome to the reality of corporations.
February 14th, 2006 at 4:44 pm
This should ratchet up the unemployment rate in Webster County above the 5% mark. You can find statistical employment data at the following url: http://www.iowaworkforce.org/LMI/laborforce/
October 6th, 2006 at 8:43 am
Does anyone know of Peter Patrou?
October 6th, 2006 at 8:58 am
Nope – that’s a new name to me.
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January 21st, 2007 at 11:35 am
Sousy, goodday. What’s the odds? Elbow T in the ribs on your Rchester couch with a ‘guess who’ queery. T&Jo would know better than M&Jo about P.P. I find myself courious to the PDX handle. Six other WC-ites in Portland,Or. My best to you both & families. Crit.Sr.