Whirlpool bringing some work back to Ohio from Mexico

Columbus Dispatch ^ | Tuesday, November 11, 2003 | Mark Niquette

[RandallFlagg]

SWEET! I'm buyin' me a Whirlpool!!

[smith288]

Good stuff... Lets hope some of these companies are going to set a trend (dont bet on it)

[jackbill]

Now that their jobs look a bit more secure, how long will it be before they strike for higher wages?

[RedBloodedAmerican]

Willie's...Daschle's...All liberals are gonna be sad.

[toddst]

Now let's see if Ohio will lower corporate taxes on Whirlpool (and others.) THAT would make a difference in how attractive Ohio could be to manufacturers.

[Naspino]

I'm deeply saddened and concerned.

-DHole

[Willie Green]

The changes won’t increase employment at the plants but...
Whirlpool had been making a small number of washers in Mexico as part of a joint venture...
Wyse declined to disclose how much of the $100 million was invested at each plant
Although Whirlpool is investing in its U.S. plants, it also is expanding operations in Mexico and plans to build a new facility there that

Hmmmm....
Sounds like they're facing start-up difficulties in Mexico...
Forced to maintain U.S. based production until Mexico is ready to absorb the load.
No long term committment here. Merely a spin-job on the postponement.

[dead]

What do you get when you play a giant sucking sound backwards?

[LS]

If you're from Ohio, please sign a petition to repeal the increase in the state sales tax. Go to www.repealthetax.org

[LS]

Ah, the voice of the Socialist Party speaks!

[ErnBatavia]

Willie is not going to like this...

[Orangedog]

What do you get when you play a giant sucking sound backwards?

Go to Taco Bell and order a bean burrito supreme. A few hours after you eat it, you'll get your answer ;)

[Willie Green]

Ah, the voice of the Socialist Party speaks!

You mean the voice of experience.

When I workd in the domestic appliance industry, I was Engineering Project Manager responsible for production start-ups at licensees and joint-ventures in Mexico, South Korea and China. It is reeeeeeeeal easy for me to read between the lines on this one. Been there, done that.

[toddst]

Good luck! Sounds like you have many legislators who need to be replaced in the next election.

[Rodney King]

bump

[Rodney King]

Sorry that I pinged you, I overlooked your post.

[Willie Green]

It's quite alright, Rodney.
The globo-weenies love to demonize manufacturing jobs as "unskilled" labor.
This article is actually testament to the contrary.
It's one thing to plop a bunch of production equipment and tooling somewhere down in Mexico...
It's quite another to develop skills and expertise in the local workforce to operate and maintain them at production levels.
Maytag is obviously having some difficulty here, and Mexico needs some more time to work the kinks out of their facility. In the meantime, production still has to be maintained in the U.S. until Mexico is ready.

The writing is on the wall, you're just not going to read it in the newspaper.

[afraidfortherepublic]

Halleluia. Hopefully this is the first move of a trend. I just heard today that Mexican labor is getting too expensive, and a lot of that work is going to China. However the Mexican work has also improved in quality. I am hearing unbelievable tales of 1 day turn-arounds for prototypes in Asia. The problem is that thes eplants want huge orders -- paid in advance. I don't thin that many companies can handle those terms. Hopefully they will stort outsourcing in the US again.

[SteamShovel]

Now that their jobs look a bit more secure, how long will it be before they strike for higher wages?

I can't speak for Clyde, but Whirlpool Marion is non-union (at least it was as late as the 80's and I believe it still is)