Hundreds of workers leave Electrolux plant for the last time

Courier News (Central NJ) ^ | 8/1/03 | KEN TARBOUS

[Incorrigible]

EDISON, NJ -- Hundreds of workers filed out the Electrolux Home Products gates onto Route 27 under gray skies Thursday afternoon on their final day of work at the plant.

About 800 workers lost their jobs over the past two days, as production ended at the air-conditioner factory. Since last year, 1,500 jobs have been cut, with 80 employees remaining until the plant closes later this year, the company said.

[Incorrigible]

 

At one time, the Swedes almost went ahead with a US advertising campaign labeled:  "Electrolux Sucks".

 

[Incorrigible]

Paging Willie Green!

[harpseal]

Ping on or off let me know.

I hear the unemployment numbers have dropped mostly because discouraged workers are no longer being counted as unemployed.

[dennisw]

The ironic part is most of these of these people are immigrants. Came here to better themselves and their families.

Now they are out on the street and will never ever get as good a job. So what do they tell their children? Become lawyers so you can help rape the carcass of a once great nation? Lawyers will always have work? A nation that closes down it's manufacturing and outsources hi-tech is a loser nation. A nation that trasfers factories to China along with the manufacturing know how is a loser nation.

[big bad easter bunny]

Thats like closing down an Amway factory! Door to door con-artists.

[harpseal]

Most of those whoi encourage the current trade envirornment and cheer the offshoring of jobs are dedicated to the proposition that the US should lose in any conflict with the rest of the world.

[y2k_free_radical]

soon there will be no one with money for us in the service industry to service

[searchandrecovery]

Prediction - in the next couple of years we'll see many films & books about the effects of "globalization" on the working man. Ain't gonna be pretty.