GE cutting 525 workers at Bloomington (Ind) plant

[UpInArms]

http://louisville.bizjournals.com/louisville/stories/2004/07/26/daily43.html

General Electric Co. plans to lay off about 525 employees at its refrigerator plant in Bloomington, Ind., and move work to a plant in Celaya, Mexico, the company announced Friday.

The plant is part of the company's Louisville-based GE Consumer & Industrial unit, which manufactures appliances, lighting and various other products for the worldwide conglomerate.

The union that represents workers at the plant had said last week that about 600 layoffs were expected. The workers, who make one of GE's higher-end, side-by-side models of refrigerator, are expected to be laid off by March.

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turning the corner to poverty

[Neshanic]

1. We bring good things to life.

Now they can send the Fridge boxes back from Mexico so the people they laid off can use them as housing.

Does your box get the GE family of broadcast companies?

[Tempest]

2. GE - Big Bush supporters

I hope Kerry hammers them for this.

[Cocoa]

3. offshoring is insignificant

"FactCheck.org" says so, so it must be true.

http://www.factcheck.org/article.aspx?docID=225

[mbperrin]

8. Yes, they do say that! Maybe we oughta check with

one of those who are now jobless!

Feel insignificant? If they say yes, we gottem!

[goforit]

4. Lights out, eh?

[Gyre]

5. Well Indiana IS a red state

So they probably won't mind. :)

Gyre

[salin]

14. ah - but Bloomington is a bonafide Blue city

so we mind... a great deal.

[madrchsod]

6. gee whiz, ya think

the price will go down now that they cut the wages by 15+ hour? i don`t think so.......

[ranosgol]

7. why Indiana is red

Indiana has voted republican for president every year since Lyndon Johnson. I have lived in this state most of my life and I do not understand this. Indiana has lost hundreds of thousands of good manufacturing jobs under the GOP yet still votes for them for President. There are three reasons for this I think. One Indiana still has a large amount of farms, which the GOP panders to on the surface. Two, Indiana has a larger than normal gun ownership, which the GOP panders too. Three, Indiana still has a large religious population. I am not against any of those three groups but that is the main reason the GOP owns Indiana at least for President, even most of it Democrats are nothing more than GOP light Democrats.

[UpInArms]

10. Welcome to DU ranosgol!

Glad to have you join us :hi:

Hang in there and educate your fellow Indianans :D

[ranosgol]

12. USS Gridley is a Guided Missile Cruiser

I know my username ‘RANOSGOL’ appears to be weird. It actually means sonar log or ranos plus gol. This was a logbook we kept in sonar control while on watch at sea that we put our bitches and complaints or rants in.
I am a military veteran and I do not think Bush should even be considered a military hero in fact just the opposite he is what most ‘real’ veterans detest.
One other thing the media keeps say John Kerry served aboard a guided missile frigate called the USS Gridley. Yes he did serve on the Gridley but it was a guided missile cruiser. I served on a ship very similar to the Gridley and anyone who can do time on one of those ships has my vote.

[UpInArms]

13. I have a great many veteran friends

(am female and was just behind the draft age curve) but my older sisters and cousins were not as fortunate.

There are friends that will never visit and children never born in my life -

I have friends that are changed forever from their experiences and I am so saddened by the blatant disregard for life and humanity that *Co has displayed. They will never support this fraud-in-chief and detest what he is creating in the minds of our next generation.

Kerry will bring a different understanding to the mess that we are in - and who knows how big this mess will be by January 2002?

Your knowledge and understanding are appreciated and welcome here.

[montana_hazeleyes]

11. You know,

it's hard to understand why the GOP ,who behave least like Jesus or most other religious leaders, are considered by so many of these folks to be so religious.

Did that make any sense?

[newyawker99]

15. Hi ranosgol!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[AlCzervik]

9. GE-they bring good things to life and then kill them.