Posted on 01/06/2014 9:55:09 AM PST by Hoodat
Thanks to persistent unemployment and low availability of low-skill jobs, Shenandoah Family Farms’ ice cream plant in Hagerstown, Maryland has received over 1,600 applicants for a grand total of 36 jobs. Many of those applicants are former workers at the Good Humor plant that was bought by Shenandoah Family Farms. “You’d think that after 20-some-years working someplace at least somebody would think you area a good person, that you’d show up on time every day, and that would be worth something,” Luther Brooks, a 50-year-old former worker at the plant told the Washington Post. “I can’t get nothing. I’ve tried.”
Nonetheless, both Republicans and Democrats in Washington continue to maintain that America requires more unskilled, cheap labor via immigration, despite the loss of 6 million factory jobs between 2000 and 2009. That has been the pitch from immigration reform advocates, who insist that the cure-all for the American economy is an endless supply of less educated migrants to fill “do the jobs Americans won’t.”
Meanwhile, Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley (D) is pushing a $4.5 million effort to retrain workers in other industries, including “green jobs.” While 85 former workers at the plant have taken advantage of the program, just 49 have been able to secure permanent employment.
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four years of anti-jobs policies from WashDC and this is what it comes to
(I wish to at least compliment and thank the people who tried to get these jobs, in that they are willing to work and NOT just sit at home on the dole all day)
3 more years of job destruction to go, gang... hang on....and keep praying for America!
...If it moves, tax it.
If it keeps moving, regulate it.
And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
--Ronald Reagan
“I can’t get nothing.”
There’s a clue right there, Festus.
Odd that the loss of jobs during THOSE years is cited, and not citation of more pertinent and up-to-date numbers. Hmmmmmmmmmmm.
That’s the same Ronald Reagan that force Japan to manufacture their cars here and protected Harley Davidson.
“Unilever ice cream plant in Hagerstown to close doors July 27”
391 hourly and salaried employees will be eligible to receive job training after factory closes
Graubard said Unilever was negotiating with United Steelworkers Local 9386, which represents workers at the plant, on whether to issue severance packages.
Or smelled like him.
People in the Old West didn’t have toilet paper.
/”Festus” is actually used humorously where I come from when referring to someone who would say “I can’t get nothin’.”
//The next step down is “Rastus,” which also contains racial connotations.
Unfortunately many in HR will just chuck the resumes into the circular file.
A few years ago, after 5 middle management were fired (I was one) I applied for many jobs, but when the HR babe was younger than my youngest child, you knew you had no chance! One such babe (I’m being a lady here) literally looked me up and down and said “do you even KNOW how to work on a computer?” I had to bite my tongue and no, I didn’t get the job.
“I wonder whose policies ol’ Luther has been voting in the past 20-some-years?”
Well, ol’ jocon307’s been voting straight R just as her parents did before her and she’s in the same boat as Luther.
My experience and qualifications are in a completely different field, but I’m having about as much success as he is.
I feel you Luther, good luck, I hope 2014 sees better days for us both!
I would have responded...." I have a lot of experience with the whole computer thing you know, emails, sending emails, receiving emails, deleting emails, I could go on.......The Web. Using a mouse, mices, using mice. Clicking, double clicking. The computer screen, of course. The keyboard. The... bit that goes on the floor down there."
Thanks, in most part, to a Dem-controlled Congress.
yes-from the original closing:
“We’re scared, and we’re frustrated,” said Larry Lorshbaugh, president of the United Steelworkers Local 9386, the last steelworkers outpost left in Hagerstown.
Lorshbaugh has worked at the plant since its beginnings in 1983, when it was owned by Gold Bond Ice Cream. He is a pasteurizer. His hands are gnarled and battered, and so, too, is his psyche — from defending his union against Unilever, against city officials he says haven’t been supportive to the union and even against the international union his workers belong to.
He and other workers say United Steelworkers officials didn’t fight Unilever hard enough and consider the local a lost cause. Union officials deny such accusations but have placed Lorshbaugh’s local under administratorship, suspending its bank account — a standard procedure in plant closings, they say. Lorshbaugh insists those actions aren’t standard.
Sitting in his union office — the United Steelworkers charter hangs on one wall, the U.S. flag on the other — Lorshbaugh recalls a simpler time in Hagerstown-
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“Where else are they going to make ice cream better than we can make it here?” Lorshbaugh said. “They can’t. They will never make it better than they can make it here.”
True or not, the company thinks it can make ice cream cheaper elsewhere. In interviews, company officials wouldn’t put a figure on how much money they expect to save, but Lorshbaugh said he was told his plant’s ice cream bars cost 14 cents more a dozen to produce compared with those of the company’s other plants.
Ken Wells, the plant manager, said energy and labor costs were key factors in the “ice cream network restructuring.”
Economists and trade group representatives say the high cost of manufacturing in Maryland, particularly in areas close to big cities, helps explain why the state has shed manufacturing jobs while other parts of the country are winning them back.”
Sounds like a business opportunity, Larry.
Thanks...didn’t read all the way down. Sorry to use your brains...
Figures. Unions are like rapacious locusts, going through productive companies, gutting them, making them unprofitable, then moving on.
The union workers losing their jobs migrate to other non-union places, organize and repeat with same results.
I swear, unions are one of the most injurious factors in the health and welfare of a business alongside bad management.
And when you get bad management AND unions, you might as well start digging the grave. The end might not come tomorrow. It might not come next week.
But it will come.
Thanks Hoodat.
BWAAAA those are great answers. It’s like you always say....... had I had advance warning I would have said.... OR like your fabulous response, the look on her face would have been priceless.
Thanks for the laugh.
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