Whirlpool to close Evansville plant

bizjournals.com ^ | 8/28/09

[Kartographer]

Whirlpool Corp. announced Friday that it will close its manufacturing plant in Evansville, Ind., eliminating about 1,100 full-time jobs by mid-2010.

[Kartographer]

"The foreman says these jobs are going boys and they ain't coming back"
This is especially bad news to me as this is my hometown and I know how much this will devastate it's economy.

[edge10]

No Mexican made fridges for me thanks.

Sad day indeed.

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

Giant sucking sound.

[Living Free in NH]

Does GE own Whirlpool?

[mylife]

But..but.. Obama said he would fix employment in Indiana!

[norraad]

The old fridges made in America lasted longer.

Shame the green meanies aren't all over this fact.

Freon flyin' all over the place 'cause little girls in Mexican slave factories can't solder fittings as well as 'mericans.

[ontap]

Bad news for Indiana..aren’t they already reeling from the RV industry meltdown. Change you can believe in indeed!!!!

[libh8er]

And this after Indiana voted for Osama ?

[HiTech RedNeck]

The unicorns whose dander is gold and silver dust were scared off by the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy.

[bert]

I would argue it is not a sucking sound but rather a flushing sound.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

No. Whirpool bought Maytag and promptly closed their plants in Iowa. Its just a brand name now.

[Gaffer]

The “hope and change” thing is really working out for Indiana.

[downtownconservative]

Isn't Obamanonics a wonderful thing? No worries! Those jobs will be coming back by a multiple of 10 or 20. The “one” said so. It's great to have g.o.d. as our leader because all he needs to do is say “and I'm going to create 10 million new jobs” and it will be so. It's all a matter of hope. Don't despair...keep hope alive!!!! /sarc/sarc/sarc...ad infinitum

[mylife]

Its always our fault

[Mr. Lucky]

Well, the IUEW members will now have more time for community organizing.

[null and void]

But..but.. Obama said he would fix employment in Indiana!

He did. He 'fixed' it real good.

[MarkeyD]

Wow. I’m from Evansville and I know people that work there.

[Gaffer]

Organizing only works when there is an ‘oppressor’ population in the said community to be organized. Sooner or later, the ‘oppressors’ leave the hell out of there; the organizers are only left to organize themselves.

[TWohlford]

“Bad news for Indiana..aren’t they already reeling from the RV industry meltdown”

Kinda makes me feel sorry for the Michigan workers who lost their jobs to Indiana’s policy of paying for new jobs.... (ahem)

[demsux]

This plant will be the new "solar job machine" of Indiana.

/s