[Straight Vermonter]

I'm an almost 20 year employee of one of these plants. There is a LOT of trepidation about what the future holds for us.

[George from New England]

Is GlobalFoundries, Chinese? or Chinese owned?

[Noob1999]

...........There is a LOT of trepidation about what the future holds for us...............

Go out now and buy your headscarf before they run out.

[W.]

Ran across this, it's old but...Chip plant to hide use of taxpayer funds $650M isn't the $6B lost by gov't, however it came out of our pockets nevertheless!

[2111USMC]

... moves by the company to reduce its reliance on selling computer hardware.

If they want to get out of selling computer hardware what do they have left? Calculators? Cash registers?

[Zathras]

The AMD / GF / IBM story is finally coming to an end.
It is a story of over hyped product and under delivery which began with PowerPC and will end with the death of AMD in 2-4 years.

[apoliticalone]

Every corporation has stakeholders such as communities, employees, shareholders, country, senior management, and suppliers, retirees, and secondary businesses.

We foolishly forget that sometimes. Employees often have the biggest relative stake because time as in decades and career is not retrievable or refundable, and represents a significant investment. Good luck.

[DuncanWaring]

Morons With MBAs™ strike again.

We had some at a place I used to work at, a major supplier to Boeing.

Came within a day or two of shutting-down the 777 assembly line at one point.

[1010RD]

How much is it being sold for?