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Originally Posted by fatlazyless
With the loss of 140 manufactoring jobs, the Freudenberg factory in Laconia is scheduled to close due to the big drop in sales of pickup trucks and SUV's. Freudenberg makes car parts, www.citizen.com, in an acre sized building at the Laconia Industrial Park.
So, where can the 140 employees go to find replacement union manufactoring jobs?
Who's hiring? Not Molex in Gilford. Not Packard in Ashland. Not Anna Lee in Meredith. Not Norton Pike in Littleton. Not Wasau Paper in Groveton. Not Hitchener in Littleton. They have closed.
Maybe at the huge new federal prison being built, up north, in Berlin? Goodbye manufactoring.....hello new prison....how's that for a message? |
It's funny...people have always enjoyed "poking fun" at the car business, and thinking, when business is bad..."too bad for them. They probably deserve it". Things like that. But most people have no idea how much the auto industry drives this country. Like the example above, of the plant in Laconia, the jobs that are dependent on people buying cars are countless. Not jobs at dealerships, but the "off shoot" jobs that are related to the auto industry.
I wish those 140 workers well...those 140 workers and all of the businesses in the area that are dependent on those workers having money to spend. And on and on it goes...