[Diana in Wisconsin]

Any PA Freepers effected by this?

[Dallas59]

Join the club...I loose mine to Reynosa Mexico in April...

[kinoxi]

Mexican chocolate? You have got to be kidding...

[somniferum]

Taylor points a finger at the “bizarre and antiquated” U.S. sugar subsidy, which inflates the price of sugar to “two or three times the price on the world market.” By shifting production to Mexico, Hershey can buy sugar at the world price, which in turn can make its product pricing more competitive with its international competitors, Cadbury-Schweppes of Great Britain and Nestle of Switzerland.

The US sugar policy is borderline criminal.

[jdsteel]

They're just going to New Orleans. You know, to keep it a "chocolate city"!!!!!

[M203M4]

Taylor points a finger at the “bizarre and antiquated” U.S. sugar subsidy, which inflates the price of sugar to “two or three times the price on the world market.” By shifting production to Mexico, Hershey can buy sugar at the world price, which in turn can make its product pricing more competitive with its international competitors, Cadbury-Schweppes of Great Britain and Nestle of Switzerland.

Unintended consequences of Big Government intrusion on the Free Market BUMP.

[Publius6961]

“We have high-paid jobs thanks to the negotiations of the union,” he said. “Reese (nonunion) workers are getting union-scaled wages to keep the union out.”

I have not finished the article, but I am not holding my breath to find the other side of the coin,

“We are about to lose our high-paid jobs thanks to the negotiations of the union,” he said. “Reese (nonunion) workers are getting union-scaled wages [and are also about to lose their jobs for the same reason.]”

Isn't it amazing what selective amnesia can do to the outraged unemployed?

Of course, under the "me first" union philosophy, they have also lost sight of the reality that they are losing their jobs in part because...

"...Taylor points a finger at the “bizarre and antiquated” U.S. sugar subsidy, which inflates the price of sugar to “two or three times the price on the world market.”

... of subsidies to another segment of the presumable free [and probably unionized] market...

[Mark was here]

The deal with sugar pricing has to go.

The loss of manufacturing jobs is the price paid to keep the sugar beet farms going.

The farmers have a better lobby.

[Aliska]

I don't like this. Maytag. Fannie May. Now Hershey's. And many more I can't remember who all has gone to Mexico. Maybe I will boycott. I have no idea how old my Maytag washer and dryer are, high capacity, top-loading washer, brought them home when my aunt died in 1989. Like new then, small leak in washer otherwise ok, think the dial/timer is getting out of sync. Fannie May I can no longer afford although I see one of the new supermarkets less than one mile away carries some. I used to love to stop by the placein the mall they had and get a little bag of my favs, trinidads, fruit and rum, apricot something w/white chocolate and toasted coconut, orange peel, several others. Hershey's about all I buy of that are the powdered cocoa, like it the best, and sometimes regular chocolate bars for s'mores, kisses for peanut blossom cookies. We have a Nestle's plant here in town, wonder what they make? I can make my own chocolate-covered orange peel, but it is a lot of work, tastes the same, found several versions that sound fairly easy of a recipe for truffles, so I can make trinidads . . .

[Hand em their arse]

"Whew, thank God we're not in the chocolate biz Jason and Andrea thought to themselves..."

[Fairview]

The line in the article about the rate of pay was highlighted. Is this meant to imply that the union scale pay is high? I frankly don't think that $15.20 an hour--a little over $30K per year--is at all an unreasonable rate of pay for an adult. It does not buy a very fancy lifestyle in that area of PA.

[toddlintown]

Diana,

I shipped out a copy of Beer & Food: An American History to you last Friday, USPS Media Mail.

Thanks,

Bob
P.S. I love Hershey bars with almond.

[AmishDude]

Local 464 of the Chocolate Workers of America

Look for...the union label...

[spectre]

Mexicans are getting a very good deal these days.

They can come over here and take our jobs, OR they can stay in Mexico and still take our jobs.

sw

[RightWhale]

They have been downsizing some departments a little at a time

Just doing what they know how to do. Downsize the product; downsize the factory. Sales may be down as well since none of those hershey bars are cheap. In fact, their price is about the same as the elite luxury brands.

[operation clinton cleanup]

Local 464 of the Chocolate Workers of America

[Caipirabob]

“We have high-paid jobs thanks to the negotiations of the union,” he said. “Reese (nonunion) workers are getting union-scaled wages to keep the union out.”

The union negotiated them out of a job, apparently.

[pandoraou812]

I wonder how this affects Hershey Park. That was ( at least the last time I was there years ago.)... a really nice place to take your children. There was a tour of the choc factory and it still had a old time quaint feel to it. I feel really bad for these people in PA. I have family in Hazelton and some do work for the candy company.

[mysterio]

More American companies exploiting Mexican slave labor. Why am I not surprised?

[Palladin]

I won't be buying Hershey's chocolate if it's made in Mexico.

You think those rats running rampant in the Greenwich Village Taco Bell were bad? Can you just picture a Mexican chocolate factory?

After Hershey moves to Mexico:

"Ummm...hey...I got six extra almonds in my Hershey bar."

"Er...are you sure those are almonds?"

[2111USMC]

"The reason for the workers’ lack of information is simple, Hummel said. Hershey’s administration “is out for the stockholders.”

No kidding moron.