Refrigerator plant lays off 96 workers (South Carolina)

UpInArms

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Refrigerator plant lays off 96 workers (South Carolina)

http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/news/local/10272374.htm

been laid off from their jobs at a refrigerator plant in Camden, but the Haier plant's chief said he hopes to call some of them back next year.

The Chinese-owned plant had about 350 employees before the layoffs began early this month, said David Parks, president of Haier America, the company's U.S. subsidiary in the Steeplechase Business Park just north of Interstate 20.

Fewer workers are needed because better equipment is being installed at the plant, he said.

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Votes no longer needed - Happy Tanksgiving

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mhr

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Thu Nov-25-04 06:59 PM
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1. But, Bush Said There Would Be More Holiday Jobs!

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Sannum

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Thu Nov-25-04 07:04 PM
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2. Sigh.

Right before the holidays. Those poor people.

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doc03

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Thu Nov-25-04 07:30 PM
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3. Us folks up north lost our jobs to the anti-union southern states in

the 70's and 80's. I have little sympathy for them now when the same companies go to China to find even cheaper labor. Hey it's the race to the bottom and they voted for Bush.

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Rose Siding

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Thu Nov-25-04 09:50 PM
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9. The ones who vote repub deserve no better

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NJmaverick

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Thu Nov-25-04 07:33 PM
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4. Again more then half voted for bush and deserve to lose t

their jobs.

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Carolina

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Thu Nov-25-04 08:56 PM
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5. I live in this red friggin state

where people have bumper stickers that read: South Carolina is GOP Country!

Sure enough we now have 2 repuke senators, a repuke governor, repuke lt governor, repuke atty general, repuke secretary of state, and Strom's son, a congenital repuke, as the US Attorney for the state ...

Need I say more. This is what they voted for, so FUCK 'EM. Bring on the joblessness, the lack of health care, and ship their asses to Iraq. Or let them live off their faith.

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doc03

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Thu Nov-25-04 09:05 PM
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7. I live in the Red state of Ohio, the entire state government is controlled

Edited on Thu Nov-25-04 09:09 PM by doc03

by the Repugs and we voted for Bush again even after all our job losses. I don't understand it, they broke the state after inheriting a surplus from the Democrats and have been raising taxes like there is no tomorrow and we still elect them. I would guess after all the good union jobs we have lost in Ohio a lot of Democrats have moved out and that's why the Repugs win.

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Thu Nov-25-04 09:26 PM
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8. boggles the mind

doesn't it? How people vote against their own best interests, and do so proudly, smugly and .... stupidly.

I'm a transplant to SC because of my husband, but I was born in one blue state, raised in another and am liberal to the core. Fortunately, I'm older and fairly economically secure, so I can sit back and laugh to some extent at the reds in this red state. But alas I worry about how their boy and his ilk will affect my college-age (and yes, draft age) son's future.

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Carolina

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Thu Nov-25-04 08:59 PM
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6. PS

I'm watching Gone With the Wind as I write this so I can enjoy the south go down in defeat.

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