12-21-06 More job losses

Thirty-eight people are out of work right before Christmas.

Auburn Apparel is no more. The knitting mill, owned by Sports Apparel Inc., Reading, has been closed and its work shipped overseas because the owner could no longer compete with foreign production.

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1,000 workers who will be out of work on Friday when Whirlpool closes the doors to its 60-year-old Herrin Maytag plant.
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Home Products International is closing its 6-year-old plastics manufacturing and distribution plant in West El Paso by the end of February, leaving about 150 people without jobs.
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