Posted on 06/09/2007 8:15:48 PM PDT by JACKRUSSELL
Edited on 06/10/2007 7:30:25 AM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
OAKDALE, Calif. - On a warm May weekend in this Central Valley town, the irony was thick.
As usual, the annual Chocolate Festival was drawing hordes of fun-seekers. But Hershey Co., Oakdale's biggest employer and the nation's biggest candy company, is closing its plant here, eliminating all 575 jobs. The company will open a factory in Monterrey, Mexico, to handle the production.
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Don't know how he'll answer but I'm scratching my head wondering what side of choice you don't understand.
Sure, they can choose to flee. That's what they did. Now, I choose not to buy anymore of their products.
If you owned a company would you not also leave.
Wael, no.
Stop buying any company product that moves to Mexico and that will stop the damn nonsense of dumping American workers——some things we may not be able to do without Hershey candy is sure one we can-—thye are finished with me and so is Hershey Park where my kids used to go and now my grandkids will just have to do without-
As for some other posts, the company will save about 10% in labor costs plus they will avoid some of the US restrictions on sugar which artificially inflate their costs.
These threads seem to bring out the “Werkin’ Man” populists. When will the Proletarians realize that they are, uh, proles?
And this is probably all ‘sugar coated’.
Levi Strauss left? Hershey is going to Mexico. Buck Knives went to Post Falls, Idaho and General Dynamics went to Arizona. Why are all these companies leaving the Golden State? Not golden anymore?
You’re exactly right! Artificially high sugar prices which is one of if not the biggest expense they have and you wonder why they leave. It ain’t rocket science. Our chickens are coming home to roost.
Remember,tariffs on imports was the major Constitutional tax to finance the limited federal government.
Sadly,most people don't have any idea where their food or much else comes from,nor do they care,as long as its cheap or in style.
Nothing wrong with Mexican Hersheys that a couple of Lomotil won’t cure.
I’m with you-—I’m giving up Hershey’s
Yep. Patriotism’s for saps.
Hmmm. Sounds like Steel Tariffs...where for every job "saved" in making steel, 5 manufacturing jobs using the steel were lost.
The culprit for the loss of jobs here is the government and the U.S. Sugar Lobby, which owns nearly half our Congress. Take it up with them, it's not Hershey's fault it's so unreasonably expensive for them to be based in the United States.
We liked Hershey’s chocolate candy, but once it’s gone over the border I am done with it.
put down the bottle and go to bed.....
you will thank me for this advice in the morning.....
;-)
The last thing you should be expecting is Americans favoring trans-national corporations who think nothing of their employees.
"If you want to keep business in the USA then you must quit putting onerous burdens on them. They are fee to flee."
When the USA dramatically lowers wages to that of the lowest competitor, then business will return.
ROFLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Werkin is a product whose purpose is to simplify life through organization.
I've always strived to be a Werkin Man. Not so much a populist, though. But what the hey, it is Saturday night. :-)
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