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Auto employment in St. Louis shrinks to just 700, down from 12,000
St. Louis Post-Dispatch ^ | 09.30.2009 | David Nicklaus

Posted on 09/30/2009 5:27:19 PM PDT by Memphis Moe

09.30.2009 3:35 pm

Auto employment in St. Louis shrinks to just 700

By David Nicklaus

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

After reading STL JobWatch’s update on the unemployment situation in St. Louis, I headed for the Bureau of Labor Statistics website to refresh my knowledge on where the jobs are being lost. There are no surprises in the big industry categories, which I’ll get to in a moment. One number did, however, leap out at me: In August, the metro area had just 700 auto manufacturing jobs. That was down from 3,000 in July, a drop that reflects the shutdown of Chrysler’s pickup plant in Fenton. We had 12,000 auto-plant jobs as recently as 2003.

Seven hundred may not be our lowest employment number since the dawn of the auto age, when the likes of Dorris and St. Louis Motor Carriage were building cars here, but it probably is the lowest since Ford came to town in 1914...

(Excerpt) Read more at stltoday.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: automotive; failure; missouri; unions
Obama has the auto industry on the move!
1 posted on 09/30/2009 5:27:19 PM PDT by Memphis Moe
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To: Memphis Moe
Obama has the auto industry on the move!

Yeah and Japan is loving it!

2 posted on 09/30/2009 5:30:00 PM PDT by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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To: Memphis Moe

Massive unemployment you can believe in!!!!


3 posted on 09/30/2009 5:30:18 PM PDT by library user
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To: Memphis Moe

Being from the Detroit area, only one thing to say, “Welcome to the Party Pal!!!!”


4 posted on 09/30/2009 5:30:49 PM PDT by Springman (Rest In Peace YaYa123)
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To: Memphis Moe

Let’s hope they are moving to get out from under the UAW contracts.


5 posted on 09/30/2009 5:31:14 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: Memphis Moe

White House spokesman: “The good news is that the number of layoffs in the area auto industry is expected to be very low for the forseeable future.”


6 posted on 09/30/2009 5:31:14 PM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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To: Memphis Moe

St Louis has virtually shut down and has only a subsistence economy.
Even American airlines has announced they are cutting flights and will no longer make St Louis Lambert a hub.
The city could start looking like Detroit before long. IMO.


7 posted on 09/30/2009 5:42:55 PM PDT by o_zarkman44 (Obama is the ultimate LIE!)
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To: o_zarkman44
The city could start looking like Detroit before long. IMO.

Well East St Louis has looked like Detroit before even Detroit looked like Detroit.

8 posted on 09/30/2009 5:44:31 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: o_zarkman44
The hub of my company is in St. Louis. The layoff word has floated around some in the east coast facility.
9 posted on 09/30/2009 5:44:39 PM PDT by wally_bert (It's sheer elegance in its simplicity! - The Middleman)
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To: dfwgator

LOL. East St Louis has already been written off a long time ago. Glad the freeways move good through there. It gives me the creeps.


10 posted on 09/30/2009 5:49:43 PM PDT by o_zarkman44 (Obama is the ultimate LIE!)
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To: Memphis Moe

This hopey changey stuff is somethin’ else.


11 posted on 09/30/2009 5:53:51 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (I don't remember Americans being called "racists" when we fought against Hillarycare.)
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To: o_zarkman44
Glad the freeways move good through there. It gives me the creeps.

As long as you don't take the wrong exit like the Griswold's in "Vacation", and end up with "Honky Lips" spray-painted on your car.

12 posted on 09/30/2009 5:57:33 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Memphis Moe

How is that union working out for you?


13 posted on 09/30/2009 5:58:22 PM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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To: Memphis Moe
Obama has the auto industry on the move!

Would that be toward the local unemployment office? (some sarcasm)

Georgraphy of the US auto manufacturing industry

The economies of Michigan, Alabama, Ohio, Indiana, and Missouri are the most highly dependent on auto manufacturing. While Michigan and Ohio have lost more than 43,000 auto jobs since 2001, Indiana actually added almost 3000 over the same time period and Alabama more than doubled its auto industry, adding 8600 jobs.

14 posted on 09/30/2009 6:01:13 PM PDT by MamaDearest ( US leadership actions today will affect our children/grandchildren tomorrow & for decades to come)
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To: o_zarkman44

Wrong headline. Should be: “Obama Saves 700 Jobs- Joe Celebrates Three-Letter Word Again”


15 posted on 09/30/2009 6:10:28 PM PDT by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.....)
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To: Memphis Moe; All

Why the despair, comrade?
You should be filled with joy!

Our glorious Comrades at the Democrat Party have succsessfully OUTFORCED those jobs from the evil American Capitalist pigs, and given them to Proletariate Mexicans and our Comrades in China!!!

When the Evil (White) American Capitalist Pigs are forced on to welfare, we will control them all, and everything will be put right in the world!

Signed,
Barack Hussein Obama


16 posted on 09/30/2009 6:25:36 PM PDT by tcrlaf ("Hope" is the most Evil of all Evils"-Neitzsche)
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To: Memphis Moe

bump


17 posted on 09/30/2009 6:31:05 PM PDT by VOA
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To: Memphis Moe

But at least those remaining 700 have awesome health care benefits! And so do the tens of thousands of retirees.


18 posted on 09/30/2009 6:31:17 PM PDT by rbg81 (DRAIN THE SWAMP!!)
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To: Memphis Moe

“Seven hundred may not be our lowest employment number since
the dawn of the auto age,...”

How comforting that is.
Even though these unionistas got a message in the 1980s (or late
1970s) with the closure of a St. Louis GM plant that made Corvettes...
they never F-—ING listened.
And their GM managers didn’t listen very well to clear messages from
the market place and their clients.


19 posted on 09/30/2009 6:39:16 PM PDT by VOA
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