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Deere Trims 367 Jobs At Ill. Factory In Latest Round Of Cuts
money.cnn.com ^ | 9/10/09

Posted on 09/10/2009 2:36:39 PM PDT by Kartographer

Deere & Co. (DE) will put 367 employees on indefinite layoff at its East Moline, Ill., factory later this month due to reduced demand.

The world's largest maker of farm equipment has been shedding jobs at several of its factories by a few hundred employees at a time throughout the year because of the demand slump. Still, the figures have been relatively small, as Deere has over 50,000 employees.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: deere; layoffs; manufacturing; unemployment
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1 posted on 09/10/2009 2:36:40 PM PDT by Kartographer
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To: Kartographer

Hope! Change!


2 posted on 09/10/2009 2:42:19 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist ("It (Gov't) can't make you happier, healthier, wealthier, and wise" - Sarah Palin 07/26)
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To: Kartographer

Union workers?


3 posted on 09/10/2009 2:44:15 PM PDT by Charles Martel (NRA Lifetime Member since 1984; TSRA rookie)
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To: Kartographer

Wait, so the harvester of green shoots that become crops has to lay off people?

Is there something I’m missing here?


4 posted on 09/10/2009 2:44:23 PM PDT by PittsburghAfterDark
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To: PittsburghAfterDark

I’m so glad the “Stimulus” is working.


5 posted on 09/10/2009 2:48:30 PM PDT by laconic
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To: Kartographer

But it’s all OK because Deere has about 50,000 employees. Therefore, the stimulus is working.


6 posted on 09/10/2009 2:51:53 PM PDT by abigailsmybaby (To understan' the livin' you got to commune wit' da dead.)
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To: Kartographer

Thank Obama that all those other jobs were saved. We need to kiss the ground Obama walks on for allowing the other people to still be employed.


7 posted on 09/10/2009 2:52:17 PM PDT by Always Right
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To: Charles Martel

Union workers?
Perhaps they were identified by the union as ‘unreliable’ due to unsavory political inclinations.


8 posted on 09/10/2009 2:52:26 PM PDT by dogcaller
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To: abigailsmybaby

“But it’s all OK because Deere has about 50,000 employees. Therefore, the stimulus is working.”

Wow, saving those 49,633 jobs is one darned impressive feat. All by himself he did it?


9 posted on 09/10/2009 2:53:37 PM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (It's better to give a Ford to the Kidney Foundation than a kidney to the Ford Foundation.)
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To: abigailsmybaby
But it’s all OK because Deere has about 50,000 employees. Therefore, the stimulus is working.

Yep, by Obama's math, he just saved 49,633 jobs!!!!

10 posted on 09/10/2009 2:53:40 PM PDT by Always Right
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To: abigailsmybaby

That’s another 50,000 jobs saved!!!!

hh


11 posted on 09/10/2009 2:55:31 PM PDT by hoosier hick (Note to RINOs: We need a choice, not an echo....Barry Goldwater)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Globalism!!
Socialism!!


12 posted on 09/10/2009 2:56:52 PM PDT by winodog
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Heading to India. They asked for change and the dumb bastards got it.


13 posted on 09/10/2009 2:57:36 PM PDT by Radl (NO mO)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
Here's more hopey changey stuff for all (since the recession is ending according to the "experts" (and I use the term lightly):

Seed company Monsanto plans deeper staff cuts

In June, Monsanto had said it was cutting about 4 percent of its staff, or about 900 jobs. The new target of 8 percent indicates the St. Louis-based company is cutting about 1,736 jobs.

GM to lay off about 1,000

General Motors Co. needs to lay off about 1,000 white-collar workers this month because only 1,900 accepted early retirement and buyout offers, the automaker said Wednesday.

14 posted on 09/10/2009 3:07:10 PM PDT by MamaDearest
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To: Kartographer

The outsourcing model is a failure.


15 posted on 09/10/2009 3:08:23 PM PDT by mysterio
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder; Always Right; hoosier hick
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He da man!

16 posted on 09/10/2009 3:19:06 PM PDT by abigailsmybaby (To understan' the livin' you got to commune wit' da dead.)
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To: mysterio
The outsourcing model is a failure.

I really got tired of Gartner pimping outsourcing for so many years. They are now talking about "insourcing." Isn't that just doing business the normal way?
17 posted on 09/10/2009 3:20:52 PM PDT by TSgt (I long for Norman Rockwell's America.)
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To: MikeWUSAF
I really got tired of Gartner pimping outsourcing for so many years. They are now talking about "insourcing." Isn't that just doing business the normal way?

Yeah, but what's new and exciting about THAT?

For today's managers to get excited and motivated about something, it must come with an accompanying new buzzword.

Just think of how cutting-edge you'll sound at your next party when you go on and on about the benefits of INsourcingTM © ® !

18 posted on 09/10/2009 3:24:47 PM PDT by TChris (There is no freedom without the possibility of failure.)
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To: Kartographer

But we only had a half million people filing initial claims for unemployment! /s


19 posted on 09/10/2009 3:26:19 PM PDT by Starboard
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To: abigailsmybaby

Obama’s amazing. Just yesterday he reduced the number of people without health insurance by 16 million! We had been stuck at 46 million for months by his own reckoning until last night when he revealed that we’re suddenly down to 30 million. /s


20 posted on 09/10/2009 3:30:14 PM PDT by Starboard
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