Layoffs might mark end of era (450 - 850 jobs)

[UpInArms]

http://www.thestarpress.com/articles/0/022599-2700-004.html

MUNCIE - Close to 20,000 employees worked at GM and Chrysler plants in East Central Indiana 30 years ago, before domestic automakers began to throttle down parts production and concentrate on building cars.

Now, there are fewer than 1,000 of the long-coveted, Big Three automaker jobs left in the area, all at Manual Transmissions of Muncie - and 450 of them will disappear by the end of August.

As numbers of big-three employees dwindled, some local parts makers like Twoson Tool and Duffy Tool & Stamping have begun adding workers.

Other jobs have simply gone away, to other plants and other makers of parts in other cities, states and countries worldwide.

...lots more...

[SoCalDem]

1. Gee I saw...just this morning.. a gorgeous BRAND NEW auto plant

state of the art...and HUGE... the only problem is that it's in China..

It was a US auto mfg.. Forgot whether it was GM, Ford or whatever..

:grr:

[Don_G]

3. I'm Sure The Investors Are Thrilled

Until they realize the people in the US can't afford to shop at Wal-Mart anymore.

[mbperrin]

2. Yes, the * job machine is still humming along.....

hmmmmm.....

[Waverley_Hills_Hiker]

4. What about Anderson, Indiana?

That was a big GM town, too. In fact Remy Electric, one of the founding firms of GM, started there.

Muncie really got its industrial start w. the glass industry.

And it was famous as the "Middletown" of sociology fame.

[Ernesto]

5. I had a "Muncie" 4 speed

behind the Corvette motor in my "50 Chevy coupe.... That was in 1964, when America still lead the world in making things.