John Astad's List: Plant Shutdowns/Layoffs

• recession began in December 2007, the U.S. Department of Labor says 3.8 million people lost jobs in about 37,000 mass layoffs, which it defines as groups of 50 or more. In May, 312,880 workers were part of mass layoffs, the highest level on record.
• ompany must file notice if it lays off one-third of staff over three months

• close its Jefferson and Watertown factories
• loss of at least 430 jobs.
• manufacture all portable generator, home standby generator and pressure washer products marketed and sold by the company.
• consolidated into existing U.S. engine and lawn and garden product plants to “optimize plant utilization and achieve better integration between engine and end-product design, manufacturing and distribution,” company management said in a statement.
• Portable generator production will be shifted to Briggs & Stratton's plant in Auburn, Ala.,
• Production of pressure washers will be moved to a Briggs plant in McDonough, Ga.
• manufacturing of home standby generators, which are affixed permanently to a house to provide backup power, will be moved from Watertown to Briggs & Stratton's factory in Wauwatosa,
• headquarters for Briggs & Stratton's power products group, which currently is located in Jefferson, also will be moved to Wauwatosa, T
• add a substantial number of jobs in Georgia and Alabama as a result of the shift in production.

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• new hire, who has connections to tanneries and vendors, has helped the label reduce per-unit costs 20%.

• Hamim Group factory complex.
• Twenty thousand workers began to march towards the complex
• sprinkled the buildings with petrol; a sweater factory, three garment factories, two washing factories, two fabric storehouses … over 8,000 machines, a huge quantity of readymade garments, fabrics, three buses, two pickup vans, two microbuses and one motorbike were all reduced to ashes.
• attacked and vandalised another 50 factories
• Low and delayed wage payments following the recession also helped trigger the unrest…
• closure of the units of S Suhi Industrial Park Ltd was mainly responsible for the latest labour unrest in garment factories in Ashulia and Savar areas, a

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• lagging indicator as companies are slow to layoff at the beginning of a recession

• shuts down its sawmill and dimension mill in Andover, Maine, a
• dismiss another 260 employees at a sawmill and dimension mill in Beecher Falls, Vt.
• founded in 1932 in Vermont,
• ay off 65 employees at an upholstering facility in Chino, Calif.,
• plans to add 14 stores to its 290 design centers in North America, Asi

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• producing vehicles in Chatham, Ontario, since 1923, is set to cut its staff there by about 90 percent,
• currently about 800 workers on layoff.
• end of last year, Daimler closed its Sterling heavy truck plant in St. Thomas, Ontario, killing off more than 1,300 jobs.

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• small Arkansas town. Hazen Powder Parts is closing its doors in 60 days, leaving all 80 of its employees without a job.
• population just under 2,000
• where everybody knows your name

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• world's biggest spirits maker,
• 199 year-old distillery and packaging plant
• Guinness stout, Smirnoff vodka and Johnnie Walker whisky,
• exports around 85 percent of its Scottish output to more than 180 markets worldwide.
• packing plant in Kilmarnock
• bottled in Kilmarnock since 1820.
• Port Dundas distillery and cooperage.
• supplies grain spirit for Diageo's portfolio
• built twice in its 199-year history due to fire damage in 1903 and 1913 and stopped production during World War II.

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