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Aug 9, 2007 | Posted by: roboblogger

1st layoffs scheduled at Autolite plant in Fostoria

Full story: Toledo Blade

All jobs we lose in this community are a loss for us The Autolite division of Honeywell International Inc. is moving assembly of standard spark plugs to Mexico, and the first of an eventual 350 workers here who will lose their jobs will be laid off next month. via Toledo Blade

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willie

Findlay, OH

this will kill this town

Marcus

Toledo, OH

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Gotta love the trans-national corporations and their government lackeys. They export good manufacturing jobs to Mexico and import Mexicans to do the service jobs that can't be exported.

The US is no longer a 1st world country, and is well on its way to becoming 3rd world. This is war and it's against middle class working Americans.

ryan

Tiffin, OH

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That is a lie they are gonna close the plant sometime next year because they are out sourcing plantnum plugs to spartenburg and all the tier 2 employees will be gone by the first of the year so they dont have to pay us then it will only be a matter of time until its closed so if i was u i WOULD NOT BUY AUTOLITE SPARK PLUGS, cause the mexicans cant even make all of them we are making half the plug then shippin it to them plus it dont say made in usa anymore it says from usa assembled in mexico so dont believe everything u hear about autolite staying in the usa

edward

Morristown, NJ

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In response to the comment made by ryan. THey are not outsourcing platinum plugs to spartenburg. Spartenburg is where the shells are manufactured. It is true they want tier two people out of the plant. Most were told when they hired in that it was temporary. some were not. Alot was a ploy to get people to come work here. Would you work for a company that told you it was only a temporary joB? Most would not. Honeywell does not care about tier 1 or tier2 employees. they care about padding the wallets of the honeywell executive board. mexico is not working out for them but they do not care. They outsource to a company in china by the name of Torch. They too make junk. As far as whats going on at the fostoria site, They continue to pull lines out of here regardless of the progress being made at other sites. We in Fostoria continue to build a quality spark plug. Our morale is down but by throwing in the towel we are showing the company that we don't care. We do. The company fails on a regular basis to provide us we tooling and components to do out job. We always persevere. We are a good strong workforce. It's too bad it goes un-noticed.

waltky

Joined: Jan 13, 2009

Comments: 55

Crawfordsville, IN

How dey gonna run the gubmint if'n nobody gotta job to pay taxes??...

[b]Bloody Monday: Over 71,400 jobs lost[/b]
[i]January 26, 2009: Seven companies announce massive job cuts in a scary start to the week.[/i]

The final week of January began with a bloodbath for the job market, as over 71,400 more cuts were announced on Monday alone. At least six companies from manufacturing and service industries announced cost-cutting initiatives that included slashing thousands of jobs. More than 200,000 job cuts have been announced so far this year, according to company reports. Nearly 2.6 million jobs were lost over 2008, the highest yearly job-loss total since 1945.

"It's all about the consumer, and the consumer's been hit hard," said Robert Brusca, chief economist at Fact and Opinion Economics. "It's a vicious circle as weakness begets layoffs, which beget more spending weakness." Construction machinery manufacturer Caterpillar (CAT, Fortune 500) said Monday it will cut 20,000 jobs amid a "very challenging global business environment." The company had already planned to cut 15,000 workers since the fourth quarter of 2008, but added another 5,000, bringing the total to 20,000.

Pfizer (PFE, Fortune 500) said in an earnings report it would cut 10% of its staff of 81,900 and close five of its manufacturing plants. And a second round of cuts will shed about 15% of employees from the combined Pfizer/Wyeth staff of 120,000. That makes a total of 26,000 jobs lost. The company already cut 4,700 jobs in 2008. Sprint Nextel Corp.(S, Fortune 500) will cut a total of about 8,000 jobs by March 31, the company said in a release. The telecommunications company's plan is to reduce internal and external labor costs by about $1.2 billion on an annual basis.

Home Depot (HD, Fortune 500), the world's largest home improvement retailer, announced Monday it will eliminate its EXPO design center business and cut 7,000 associates, or approximately 2% of the company's total workforce. The company blamed a lack of demand for big ticket design and decor projects. Texas Instruments (TXN, Fortune 500) said it will slash its workforce by 3,400 employees to cope with weak demand and the slowing economy. More than half of those cuts will be layoffs while "voluntary retirements and departures" will make up the rest.

More http://money.cnn.com/2009/01/26/news/economy/...

DB Cooper

Laurel, MS

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waltky wrote:

How dey gonna run the gubmint if'n nobody gotta job to pay taxes??...
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More http://money.cnn.com/2009/01/26/news/economy/...

Ah....There's the 2 Trillion Dollar question I've been wonder.
No Jobs=No Taxes

Some stuff from China is cheap, some isn't, most is poor quality. So there's no savings there.

Government needs money.

Social Security Needs money to pay out.
No Jobs.

Obama has yet to utter the one thing that would bring this country back. MAKE IT HERE!

All this talk about solar panels and Wind power is funny as hell. Where you think they are going to make this stuff? Can't make a door knob or spark plug but can make a solar panel? Not unless you can compete with 1 dollar an hour and a CEO that loves to travel to China.

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