KC loses hundreds more manufacturing jobs as Procter & Gamble announces plant closure

[UpInArms]

Source: KSHB

KANSAS CITY, Kan. -- All 280 employees at the Procter & Gamble plant in KCK will either have to transfer elsewhere or be out of a job come 2020, a spokesperson for the company announced Wednesday morning after an impromptu all-staff meeting.

On top of the 280 employees at the facility on a full-time basis, there are an additional 350 contract employees at this site, according to a spokesperson.

"We shared with employees today that we will transfer production of Our Dish Care business from our site in Kansas City, Kansas, to our new facility at Tabler Station, West Virginia," the statement said.

The KCK plant, built in 1905, produces Dawn, Gain, Ivory and Joy soaps and dish detergents.

Read more: https://www.kshb.com/news/local-news/procter-gamble-plant-in-kck-to-close-by-2020

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I am so glad those permanent corporate tax cuts are proving to be what our economy needs and these companies are hiring instead of closing locations.

[COLGATE4]

1. All this "winning" is making me dizzy nt

[Sophia4]

2. West Virginia needs the jobs, but these transfers from one state to another

look like cannabalism. On the other hand, Kansas has not been well run in recent years has it?

[getagrip_already]

4. It's not a 1:1 move of jobs

Only some of the jobs, probably management, will move. Very few.

Corporate doublespeak. Not much more.

[hatrack]

3. So much WINNING!

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[Maggiemayhem]

5. The Tabler Station is still being built

And there is fight over a TransCanada/Mountaineer Gas Pipeline . The pipeline people say Proctor and Gamble needs the gas, but P&G have always denied this. This pipeline sends gas from Pa to Hancock Md and goes under the Potomac to the Berkeley Springs area. It then goes through rural farmland in Morgan County and then near homes and schools until it hits Martinsburg and then is supposed to go to Shepherdstown and Kearneysville and Charles Town. NOBODY wants this and it is being forced on us.They are taking property by eminent domain and people are pissed.Charles Town is built on top of a limestone cavern. Duh! There are caves everywhere. If this water gets contaminated, it goes straight to Dc. Karst topograghy and pipelines should not happen. We think since there is no public water or sewer in much of the area , it is just a way to get eventually to Dominion Cove in Lusby on the bay for export.

[FreeStateDemocrat]

13. That is less than 5 miles from the Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant that could make history books

if there is an industrial accident.

[Maggiemayhem]

15. You are speaking of Lusby Maryland to clarify.

[Rene]

6. I can boycott these products if they go thru with this loss of jobs in KC.....who else joins me?

[Maggiemayhem]

16. Two years until closing in Kansas

Buy more and maybe have jobs in two states. I hear Tide Pods have become quite popular. S/

[oasis]

7. Will West Virginia coal miners stoop to working at Procter&Gamble

or will they hold out until "King Coal" returns?

[Maggiemayhem]

12. There is no coal in this part of West Virginia

It is called the Eastern Panhandle comprising of Jefferson , Berkeley and Morgan. We are way more prosperous than the rest of the state because we had NO coal and our proximity to DC . We have trains to DC for commuters. The Rs also are going to allow logging in Cacapon State Park. If you live in DC , you may have played golf at Cacapon. Miners have moved here for work in the last decade as their mines played out, but it cost more to live here than the southern part of our state where the mines are/were located. Kansas has been ruined by poor governance and Justice is working on ruining WV.

[Maggiemayhem]

14. I think most miners would be happy to have a decent job of any kind.

Don’t blame them for false hope.

[aeromanKC]

8. Well Kansas...

You keep voting GOP, then your economy will continue to suck.

[Augiedog]

9. And Wisconsin is loosing 600 Kimberly Clark paper plant jobs. Gov. Walkers economy is coming

unglued here. He is offering Kimberly Clark the same tax payer support cash that he gave to Foxcon to come to Wisconsin. So taxpayers are on the hook for millions and millions of dollars because Walker doesn’t understand Econ 101. He just a simpering pathetic fuck head like trump.

[Hong Kong Cavalier]

10. But but but..."JOBS! JOBS! JOBS!"

Tangeranus even said so on multiple occasions.

[wolfie001]

11. Isn't Kansas a Capitalist's Xanadu?

[Maggiemayhem]

17. They call Brownback tax cut in Kansas a spectacular failure.

[Kensan]

20. The Brownback tax cut was actually repealed last year...

The tax cut was always an idiotic idea, which is why Republicans championed it in the first place. No taxing business and flow-through K-1 income AT ALL was always destined to result in failure. After multiple years of huge deficits from significantly reduced tax revenue, the Kansas legislature finally came to their senses and repealed the tax cut. And....they made it retroactive for ALL of 2017, even though the law was passed in July 2017.

Going forward, individuals will have a 5.75% maximum tax rate on their KS taxable income. Still not all that high when compared to the "blue" states, like my own California, but at least it's not a zero.

Is it wrong that I was gleeful on the inside when I had to break the news to my wealthy client that his tax liability was going to go up several hundred thousand dollars due to this change? I had to massage his hurt feelings by reminding him of how much he saved from 2012-2016 due to this folly.

[LongTomH]

18. P&G says the West Virginia plant is 'more modern.'

WHY couldn't they modernize the Kansas City plant.

Oh......while we're talking about Proctor & Gamble, how many remember when there was a biiiigggg wingnut flap about a 'satanic symbol' on P&G product packages??

Maybe they are in league with the devil, after all!!!!

[TexasBushwhacker]

19. The plant is over a hundred years old

I'm sure it's been up dated over the years, but after a while it's just easier and cheaper to build from scratch.