Posted on 12/11/2018 7:56:50 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
JACKSON, Miss. — A home goods retailer is expanding its furniture manufacturing to Mississippi, with plans to hire 350 people.
San Francisco-based Williams-Sonoma Inc. announced Thursday that it will open a factory making upholstered furniture in Baldwyn, Mississippi, starting production in January.
The company, which sells furniture under the Pottery Barn, West Elm and Williams-Sonoma Home brands, also has factories in Claremont, North Carolina, and City of Industry, California....
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A gift to a red state.
But...But...But... I heard Nancy Pelosi say the economy is in the tank today. Could she be...WRONG?
Hope all staff will be locals. Don’t need any more liberals moving to the South and trying to infect the culture.
350 people + their families have gotten their lives improved by solid employment. That’s good news for all of us, even those who will never go to that state. Americans cheer increased longterm employment.
They supplied the pressure cookers for the Boston Marathon bombers, sort of.
A right-to work-state.
Any manufacturing job coming back to our country is a positive.
Are you kidding? Those of us who want to flee will *NOT* be bringing the disease of liberalism with us; feel free to shoot those who do :-)
More winning.
So long as the plant stays non-union, this will be great. ALL wages should be set by the market. Labor likely this might be worth $10 to 12 an hour, with maybe three or four days of paid vacation and two or three paid sick days,along with maybe $150 per month toward health insurance (employee pays the rest).
I moved from Iowa to Mississippi after my divorce.
We welcome all conservatives to our homeland. Have had others moving in trying to change the South, so please forgive us if we are a bit leery.
My guess is that the City of Industry plant is going to be closed in the near future.
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Don’t worry, I’ll have my GOA membership card, gun collection and Republican registration available as documentation :-)
This could happen all over the country. And should.
It makes no sense to tell us that companies “need” to produce in China when costs of producing in small town America would add a few percent at most to final retail price.
Places like Hickory, High Point and Thomasville NC all used to have major furniture manufacturing until about the last 20 years when the factories were moved completely to China. But the prices didn’t drop except by a bit. The importers simply make the money for being in the middle, the cash that used to go to American paychecks.
They’re stuff is a little pricey but beautiful.....
Plenty of foreign born Hispanics in Mississippi to fill those jobs.
That gift cost local taxpayers, if my math is accurate, $3.5 million.
Some gift.
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