The Hershey Co.'s Reading operation is closing and 252 workers are losing their jobs

pennlive.com/ ^ | 02/20/09 | JOHN LUCIEW

[Professor_Leonide]

Zagnut is my favorite candy bar - just wish I had an easier time finding it... So few stores stock it.

[shielagolden]

WORLD GOVERNMENT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Fwqd3L3ZBU

[BADROTOFINGER]

Not my fault. Someone else isn’t pulling their weight...JFK

[shielagolden]

GOOD BY GM THANK TOO NAFTA VIDEO http://www.dailymotion.com/relevance/search/lou/video/x2a7gh_lou-dobbs-china-manufacture-in-mexi_news

[shielagolden]

WORLD GOVERNMENT
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1590858026591557284&hl=en

[MahatmaGandu]

I've been boycotting Hershey since they closed their Oakdale, California plant and moved the whole operation to Mexico. I really miss Hershey's Kisses and won't eat them even if they're free. This also means I don't eat Cadbury or etc. that's made by Hershey's.

America first.

[muawiyah]

Didn't they INVENT chocolate in Mexico?

BTW, I've been to places in Mexico where they have sewer systems ~ simply amazing.

[Richard Kimball]

"That's 191/2 years I lost," said one 50-something worker who declined to give his name, fearing it could jeopardize his severance package. "I've got to start over. Hershey has been good to us. It's just a shame."

Dude, if you REALLY wanted to work in a chocolate factory, you had TWO YEARS to make arrangements to find an opening in another Hershey plant and get the job, sell your house and move there.

Two years is a heck of a warning. Also, I spent 20 years in a job and went to another one. I didn't consider those 20 years wasted. There were good things I did, children raised, a lot of wonderful life lived. Years aren't lost, they're spent, one day at a time. What you do with them is up to you.

[AGreatPer]

Unions

[null and void]

Unions.

Sugar tariffs.

They’ve had their intended effect.

[BADROTOFINGER]

Thanks, but I don’t really need a homework assignment. I already have enough to worry about w/taxes...JFK

[MahatmaGandu]

Still, I was paying extra for American chocolate. Oh, did you notice Hershey cut their costs and then cut a bag of kisses from 12 to 9 ounces and didn;t cut the price?

Bastards.

[Mark was here]

This is the result of protectionist policies choosing sugar beet growers over those who produce candy products.

[hoosierham]

NAFTA has just been one more serious wound self-inflicted on the U.S. of A.

Other major self-inflicted wounds are the insistence that homosexuals and members of a death cult desrve tolerance.

[bikerman]

Noooooooooo not peppermint patties.

[EQAndyBuzz]

Doesn’t really matter. Chocolate will be on the list of foods that the facists won’t allow us to eat anymore. Was just a matter of time.

[sportutegrl]

You can blame the same people that brought us ethanol. The sugar lobby keeps the price of sugar artificially high in the US with tariffs on sugar. It is telling that Hershey’s can actually make candy cheaper in Canada! where there is no sugar tariff.

[MahatmaGandu]

Ditto that.