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2024-01-04 Economy

The silent death by a thousand cuts in manufacturing

[Washington Examiner] WILMERDING, Pennsylvania — By July of this year, the last man on the job here at the Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corporation will, in all likelihood, turn around as he reaches the threshold of the same front door hundreds of thousands of workers have passed through since the 1890s. For the last time, he will look out over the 300,000-square-foot plant that has provided this country with so much technology and innovation for nearly 140 years, and he will think about the men and women who went before, and then turn out the lights for the last time.

This is a solemn process that has happened across this country for the past 40 years and put into motion here on Christmas Eve when Wabtec filed a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification notice, which requires employers to let employees know of a scheduled plant closure. It is a move that will affect the remaining 94 employees — from a plant that once employed thousands — with the layoffs beginning next month and the closure expected to be complete by July.

Posted by Besoeker 2024-01-04 00:58|| || Front Page|| [11144 views ] Top

This is a solemn process that has happened across this country for the past 40 years

The other Geo Soros.

Posted by Besoeker 2024-01-04 01:04|| 2024-01-04 01:04|| Front Page Top

#2 Blame Unions, Eviromentals, and MBAs.

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-01-04 01:09|| 2024-01-04 01:09|| Front Page Top

#3 Blame...

On this day in history, January 4, 1965, LBJ touts utopian 'Great Society' in State of the Union address

Posted by Skidmark 2024-01-04 01:26|| 2024-01-04 01:26|| Front Page Top

#4 I agree with Grom in #2. However, scanning the article, I see -

Assembly lines, technology, computers, artificial intelligence, or cheaper labor overseas have all contributed to the devaluation of the skill sets of the men and women who have carved out the American dream working in manufacturing. Those same entities have enabled manufacturing output to soar as manufacturing employment has cratered.

Posted by Bobby 2024-01-04 08:51|| 2024-01-04 08:51|| Front Page Top

#5 #3: LBJ. 'great society'. 'affirmative action'. the gifts that keep on giving.

Posted by irish rage boy 2024-01-04 14:13|| 2024-01-04 14:13|| Front Page Top

#6 The coming dust up with China will bring much of it back home. Tennis shoes will end up in Vietnam, but the stuff that’s really needed will come back home when we are forced to do without it. At that point sanity will return.

Posted by Super Hose 2024-01-04 15:57|| 2024-01-04 15:57|| Front Page Top

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