Cone Mills To Layoff 190 Workers In Greensboro

[UpInArms]

http://www.wxii12.com/employment/2635759/detail.html

GREENSBORO, N.C. -- Cone Mills announced Thursday it would layoff 190 workers in its Greensboro White Oak Plant.

Officials said the layoffs will be effective immediately. The workers were allowed to finish their shifts, according to officials.

Cone Mills filed for bankruptcy on Sept. 24. Officials said it will eliminate some 575 jobs in North Carolina as part of a restructuring move.

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so does NC have any other plants that can have layoffs or closures?

[dweller]

1. Pillowtex recently

some 5000 NC workers, some in virginia and elsewhere.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/08/11/national/main567724.shtml

dp

[Media_Lies_Daily]

2. Tell them to cheer up...the economy's getting better....

...and should be really cookin' by 2010.

Or is that "cooked"?

[NewYorkerfromMass]

3. anyone hiring in NC?

seriously... do these people have anywhere to go now?

[MattNC]

4. it's terrible here

about the only place to go if you're one of these laid off workers is retail or flippin' burgers

[Media_Lies_Daily]

5. That's the problem in any rural setting that is basically a one-horse...

...operation. So much of the work and social fabric revolves around that one facility that it is totally devastating when it goes away.

There will be a lot of people in that town driving long distances to find and keep work.

[HFishbine]

7. Har

I can understand your misconception, but this is not a symptom of a rural area with a one-horse operation. Greensboro has a population of 228,000 and the entire metropolitan statistical area, which include two neighboring cities is over 1.3 million people.

For decades, furniture, tobacco and textiles drove the local economies, now all three are going in the dumper. There are three things to blame:

1) Foreign trade policies. Whether one sees them as good or evil, these companies are not in a position to compete with low-wage foreign competition.

2) Corporate executives who saw the writing on the wall and, rather than modernize production methods and product lines to protect local workers, "modernized" by moving operations overseas.

3) Local government. Other NC cities are faring far better. They took advantage of the go-go 90's to recruit new industry and broaden their economic base. The cities of the Piedmont remained complacent and unimaginative.

[HFishbine]

6. 200

at Thomasville Furniture earlier this week.

[JeebusH]

8. I wonder how many of them are reconsidering that Bush vote???

[HFishbine]

9. A damn lot of them

you should read the letters to the editor and hear what some of the normaly conservative trade associations are saying. They are bolting.

POP QUIZ
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When was the last time NC went for a democratic president?

(Answer: 1976)

When will NC go for a dem president again?

(Answer: 2004)