Ford Workers Upset About Plant Closures

[hadrons]

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"It's a shame when you can give your whole life to something and then it crumbles right in front of you," said Gilmore, 34.

Other employees at Ford plants in North America slated for closure reacted with emotions ranging from anger to disappointment to surprise. The company said 25,000 to 30,000 jobs will be lost.

"Their hopes and dreams and aspirations and secure future are gone for now," said Ken Dearing, president of the local union that represents Ford workers at the Hazlewood, Mo., plant outside St. Louis, which also will be idled.

Besides the Georgia and Missouri plants, Ford also said it will idle Michigan's Wixom assembly plant and Ohio's Batavia transmission plant. Windsor Casting in Ontario also will be idled. Ford has not yet named another two assembly plants it expects to shutter.

While some officials in the affected communities held out hope the plants could reopen one day because Ford said it was "idling" them over the next two years, the company gave no indication the plants would be used for any other purpose. It also said all the facilities it is shuttering will cease production by 2012.

In southwest Ohio, the loss of the Batavia plant will cost 1,745 jobs and the county's largest employer. The plant, which has been open since 1980, makes transaxles for several Ford models, including the Escape and Freestyle.

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060124/ap_on_bi_ge/ford_plants_8


Georgia, Missouri, and Ohio ...hmmm, red states

[NMDemDist2]

1. BREAKING---- Water still wet.

what kinda stupid headline was that :banghead:

[stevedeshazer]

2. Bear shits in woods

Pretty much my first thought, too.

[TheCowsCameHome]

5. Hobby horses have wooden dicks

Hey, its only a job. No big deal.


Unreal, huh?

[BootinUp]

3. about your red states comment

Loss of manufacturing jobs looked bad in Ohio in Nov '04 too.

[Warpy]

4. Well, DUH

That's got to be the silliest headline yet.

Want to bet those plants reopen someplace like Canada, where Ford won't have to shell out for US health insurance?

[Kalisiin]

6. Hmmmm.

wouldn't surprise me if they did...but did you notice Windsor is closing, too? That's Windsor, ONTARIO...as in, Canada. Border town, but nevertheless, Canada.

My bet is they move it all to fucking China, or Mexico, where they can still get slave labor. Piss on the American people.

[Berserker]

7. They are closing

a plant in Mexico also.