German industrial giant, bought the plant and folded it into a global enterprise
twice as many workers
sent production to Mexico
David J. Spyker, once the plant manager and now vice president of a Siemens unit with operations around the
2,700 jobs from a town of 8,000 people.
putting millions of Americans to work for new owners
dollar losing much value
200,000 Michigan residents worked for subsidiaries of foreign companies as of 2005
She had promised to persuade the company to stay, assembling a package of more than $120 million in state and local tax credits. The city offered to build a new plant. The local union agreed to give up as much as $33 million a year in wages.
