Posted on 10/10/2009 5:00:52 PM PDT by Graybeard58
Whirlpool Corp.'s division in Mexico has announced it will build a $55 million plant in the northern city of Apodaca, employing 1,100 people.
That number may sound familiar. The appliance maker announced in August it was shutting down its Evansville manufacturing line in mid-2010 and moving it to Mexico. Evansville's line employs 1,100 people.
Jill Saletta, director of external relations for Whirlpool, confirmed in a statement Friday that the jobs being created in Apodaca are those from the Evansville plant.
"As announced in August, the production of refrigerators currently made at Evansville, and the 1,110 jobs associated with that production, would be transitioning to one of our existing facilities in Mexico, which would be named later," she said. "Yesterday, our Supsa plant, located in Apodaca County, Monterrey, made the announcement that the production and associated jobs would be going to that location."
According to a report on the Web site tradingmarkets.com, the Mexican plant will begin production in 2010 and produce 18- and 23-cubic-foot refrigerators for "both the domestic market and export," according to the report.
Apodaca is a city of 393,000 people about 100 miles south of the U.S.-Mexico border at Nuevo Laredo.
Wonder why there and not here? Oh yeah.. the AFL-CIO.
time to rethink free trade and open borders?
Gee, you mean that the Lilly Ledbeder Act and a higher minimum wage and SCHIP and all the other regulations aren’t good for employment?
That and taxes, regulations, torts, zoning...
Bush’s fault
Hopie Changie is working as planned.
All of America Boycott Whirlpool, also for the 1100 Americans out of work burn your AFL-CIO union cards their in bed with the enemies of America, this administration!
gosh, I guess the USA just can’t compete with .25 cents a week pay.
Gee....Mexicans in America will be angry!
Storing and freezing the foods that American-made refrigerators won’t store and freeze.
1,110 fewer tax payers.
Maybe someday politicians will wake up and realize America has one of the highest corporate tax rates. The rate needs to drop significantly if we want investment capital to return and put people to work (new taxpayers).
We have a huge Whirlpool washer plant in our area, in fact without it our county would just disappear. The workers are not Union.
But, but the corporations are eveellll.../s
Better get ready to say goodbye, looks like the writing is on the wall. They will shut down and move, its the only smart business decision./S
It's like a football team that gets fooled by a reverse. Ay carumba!
Maybe 1100 Illegal aliens in the US will leave the US and head to Mexico for those jobs.
Thank you Nancy, Harry and most of all “that One” Obummer. you and cap and trade along with the fine labor unions have driven another manafactur away from the USA.
You deserve the Nobel prize for economics.
Way to go Whirlpool. You have a smart Board of Directors.
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