Best Buy's Franklin layoffs to total 415

[UpInArms]

http://www.indystar.com/articles/7/124679-1067-031.html

Best Buy Co. told employees at its Franklin distribution center on Thursday night and Friday that 415 of the warehouse's 950 workers will lose their jobs beginning in May.

Of that total, 140 are temporary workers whose service was already scheduled to end in early May. The remaining 275 layoffs will involve a combination of full- and part-time workers that has not yet been determined, said Dawn Bryant, Best Buy spokeswoman.

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The layoffs are one of two major blows that will hit Franklin this year. ArvinMeritor is shutting down its Franklin auto exhaust parts plant by September, eliminating 800 plant jobs.

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[saigon68]

1. Thank Walmart for this.

Now Walmart to get some food stamps, government sponsored, energy assistance and daycare for its employees

[SoCalDem]

2. and thank the "wonderful economy"

People who are worried about losing their jobs or have already lost them, just cannot justify blowing big bucks on that new electronic gizmo..

The spiral continues :(

[boobooday]

3. That's my neighborhood

We've been hit hard. My city has lost television manufacturing jobs and refrigerator manufacturing jobs.

BMG, the giant music club distribution service is laying off lots of employees in nearby Terre Haute.

Will Indiana go for Bush in '04?

Not if they've been paying attention.

http://www.wgoeshome.com

[LiberalFighter]

4. Why would the people of Indiana pay attention?

These are the people they have elected:
Dan Quayle
Dan Coats
Mark Souder
Dan Burton
Mike Pence
Dave McIntosh
Steve Buyer

That doesn't include the nutcases in local government and state government.

[LiberalFighter]

5. What about the airline hub in Indy?

[LiberalFighter]

6. I wonder how much it is going to cost Indy to keep the Colts there

Especially, with Manning named as a franchise player. That will effect the makeup of the team. How many of the current players will be kept or released because of the cap. They made it to the playoffs last year but a different team may not have as good a record as last year.

[salin]

7. our cycle down in Bloomington

started a couple of years ago (and has tapered off - but no new comparable jobs coming in) with major layoffs at GE, and Otis Elevator. It has taken a toll... large enough to oust bush? Still feels rather doubtful as the active parts of the republican party in the state seem to trend religious right - and the recent pandering is good for bush. HOWEVER... it seem to me that the moderate business class (most concentrated in Indy) have for a long while been throwing there money to democrats when the republican for a state-wide office is seen to be too extreme. This has an impact upon the money flow to candidates. Wonder why even when O'Bannon wasn't too terribly popular he walked over extremist McIntosh? Why McIntosh was wooed to stay out of the current governor's race (for perceived moderate Daniels... harder to tell where the indy money will go in that race)? Why sitting senator Coats bowed out rather than face moderate democrat senator Bayh?

I believe that the only way Indiana would go against bush... would be if that particular part of the party (those giving money to races - and to the party to support efforts)... decided to go against bush. While his economic policies give direct aid to some of these folks... the decaying of the overall economic structure of the state (and more broadly on the country) has enormous negative consequences for this class of folks (the regional business interests). Add a distaste for the religious extremism... and it is possible (though not terribly likely) that the dynamics of the race in Indiana change - to a great extent due to the moderate business class in the state that has enormous clout on the statewide level.

[Voltaire99]

8. Sold all the Bush tax cut-funded $5000 plasma screen TVs already, eh?

That's OK. Glad that emptying the nation's treasury could help some people better enjoy TV!