Goshen Coach intends to close facility in Elkhart (About 160 layoffs, Indiana)

The South Bend Tribune ^ | September 1, 2016 | Ted Booker

[2ndDivisionVet]

ELKHART — Goshen Coach, a commercial bus manufacturer, announced it will close its Elkhart facility on Oct. 31 and expects to lay off 159 employees.

The company filed a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification on Wednesday with the Indiana Department of Workforce Development to announce the plan to close the facility at 25161 Leer Drive. It plans to offer "severance benefits and transition programs to affected employees," according to the notice, which does not explain why the plant will be shut down. Company officials could not be reached Wednesday for comment.

Goshen Coach, which has manufactured specialty vehicles since 1985, is owned by the Milwaukee-based REV Group.

The notice was written by John Walsh, who is president of REV Bus Group, a subsidiary of the REV Group....

[DaveA37]

As odumbo and his ilk continue to smile and say, “Another one down”.

[erlayman]

Not really. The facility is going to then re-open as an RV manufacturing plant so hopefully many of these layoffs can be hired back.

[WhirlwindAttack]

Eins zwei drei

In Northern Indiana up near Napanee
A half a mile from Goshen out on rural route 3
Stood a simple house made of whitewashed wood
Where lived an Amish boy named Graeber B. Good
He never ever learned to read or write oh well
But knew just what to do to keep from burning in Hell

Go go go Graeber go
Go go Graeber go go go
Go Graeber go
Go go Graeber go go go
Graeber B Good

He carved himself a guitar from our old back door
And got some bailing wire from the general store
He used the wire for string and made some tuning knobs
From 16 penny nails and an old corn cobs
He finally got it finished after many an hour
But when he went to plug it in we didn’t have no power

Go go go Graeber go
Go go Graeber go go go
Go Graeber go
Go go Graeber go go go
Graeber B Good

Now I met Carl and Barry at the Goshen show
They told me there’s lots of songs that we both know
And that’s when we decided we would be a band
And play their Amish music all over der land
Praying that der Parson never heard them say
Electric Amish playing live day today

Go go go Graeber go
Go go Graeber go go go
Go Graeber go
Go go Graeber go go go
Graeber B Good

Oh the memories of Indiana :)