Thread: More job losses

MARTINSVILLE, Va. -- Hooker Furniture said today that it plans to close its last remaining wood furniture plant here by the end of March. . "We have reacted to the demand of our retail customers and the consumer for high-value imported products and the changing business model in our industry."
The Martinsville plant employs about 280 people.
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PINCKNEYVILLE, Ill. A southern Illinois factory that makes D-V-Ds and compact discs will be closing for good by the end of March, costing about 440 jobs. Technicolor Universal Media Services.

The company says it is undertaking a restructuring that will affect 12-hundred jobs in Pinckneyville and in Camarillo, California, Technicolor's base. About 70 jobs in Memphis also will be affected. Packaging and distribution work done in Illinois is being reassigned to sites in Michigan, Tennessee, Canada and Mexico, while manufacturing will be centralized in existing Technicolor operations in Guadalajara, Mexico.
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DeSoto Mills of Fort Payne has begun laying off employees as the plant prepares to cease operations. Atlanta-based Russell Corporation, which owns the mill, announced the plant will shut down sometime this month and its 220 workers will be terminated. The company said the mill's finishing and support operations should be closed by March 31st.
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More than 100 Iowans will soon be out of a job. Clarion Technologies says it's closing its plastics plant in Ames, eliminating about 130 jobs.
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Do you all remember when NAFTA and CAFTA was going to be so good for the USA...and the police where sent out to beat the crap out of those hippies in the streets protesting NWO....and there was no NAU or SPP that was all some conspiracy theory...and no one would ever consider turning Texas into Mexico or a gaint parking lot...with a toll road ....Remember when Walmart sold it self to every little town as a patriot flag waver selling American made....
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