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 JobWatchs 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 Ill 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 Chryslers 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 ...
Yeah and Japan is loving it!
Massive unemployment you can believe in!!!!
Being from the Detroit area, only one thing to say, “Welcome to the Party Pal!!!!”
Let’s hope they are moving to get out from under the UAW contracts.
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.”
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.
Well East St Louis has looked like Detroit before even Detroit looked like Detroit.
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.
This hopey changey stuff is somethin’ else.
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.
How is that union working out for you?
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.
Wrong headline. Should be: “Obama Saves 700 Jobs- Joe Celebrates Three-Letter Word Again”
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
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But at least those remaining 700 have awesome health care benefits! And so do the tens of thousands of retirees.
“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.
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