Reply #109: Navistar Announces 231 Layoffs [View All]

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http://www.onnnews.com/Global/story.asp?S=3974700

In Springfield, Navistar announced that they will layoff 231 people at the end of this month at its International Truck and Engine Plant.

A lot of the workers have been through layoffs before and they're hoping this one is temporary, too.

UAW Local 402 President Charlie Hayden says, " are people that have been through layoffs in the past 10 or 11 years. Some have been laid off six times in a 10 or 11 year period."

The laid off workers are those with the least seniority at International, a plant that manufacturers medium-duty trucks.

Navistar expects to reduce truck production from 177 to 120 per day. They say the demand for trucks just isn't there.

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