"Chrysler workers have taken to calling it the "Valentine's Day massacre." They are referring to Wednesday's restructuring announcement from Chrysler, one that some analysts say could cost 10,000 production workers their jobs."
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Milwaukee, Wis.-based JCI is set to close down the plant as early as March 4.

In the summeWhen Johnson Controls Inc. took the keys to the Delphi Corp. battery plant on Jersey Avenue last year, hundreds of employees opted for buyouts from the old company and left their jobs. But the 102 workers who stayed on thought they'd be in it for the long haul, about 250 workers took the packages offered by Delphi,. 102 lose job this time around.
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The factory is now known as BorgWarner Automotive. Most significantly, the work force that numbered about 5,500 when she started has been whittled down to just 780, all of whom will lose their jobs by the time the plant closes its doors in April of 2009. The factory's good fortunes shifted after the establishment of the North American Free Trade Agreement, according to Clevenger.
"After they passed NAFTA everything began to get smaller.

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TECUMSEH, Mich., Feb. 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Tecumseh Products
Company (Nasdaq: TECUA; TECUB) today announced that it has informed the
workers in its manufacturing facility in New Holstein, Wisconsin, of the
Company's decision to close the plant, in a two-stage process that will
begin in mid-April.
The decision will affect the 320 workers currently employed at the
plant.

Tecumseh over the
past several years has increasingly outsourced the manufacturing of
components and certain small engines to low-cost countries, including
India, Brazil and China.