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The closing of the Galesburg Maytag plant has left more manufacturing
workers pondering an uncertain future
By David Moberg



Galesburg, Illinois-Many Americans dream of getting rich. Aaron Kemp
had more modest ambitions. "I wanted to work at a decent job and earn
a decent wage, with decent benefits, so I can raise my kids, give them
a decent education and maybe take them out to Pizza Hut on a Friday
night. I don't need a Mercedes, just a ho-hum existence, and now,"
he says, with sadness and anger in his voice, "it seems hard to even
do that."

Eight years ago, Kemp began working at the factory of Maytag
Corporation, the largest employer in Galesburg, a western Illinois town
of 34,000 and the birthplace of poet Carl Sandburg. In September,
Maytag finally closed the plant, after sending a large part of the work
that 1,600 people had recently been performing to a new Maytag factory
in Reynosa, Mexico; another large part to Daewoo, a Korean
multinational subcontractor that is expected to build a plant in
Mexico; and a few dozen jobs to a plant in Iowa. Now Kemp, a
31-year-old union safety and education official with a muscular build
and a small goatee, has a temporary job as a counselor to laid-off
workers at two-thirds his old pay.

The local Machinists union fought the shutdown, taking their case to
the streets, to the press, to politicians and to Maytag shareholders,
even winning national attention when Senator-elect Barack Obama
mentioned their cause in his Democratic convention keynote speech. But
the union could not stop the Maytag jobs from being added to the tally
of 2.7 million manufacturing jobs lost since 2000. Those several
million jobs were eliminated for many reasons-including declining
demand, rising efficiency and increased imports-but a significant
portion are the result of U.S. multinational corporations, like Maytag,
moving production out of the country.

Although the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics concluded that during the
first three months of this year only 4,633 workers lost jobs because of
investment shifts overseas, a study for the U.S.-China Economic and
Security Review Commission by Kate Bronfenbrenner of Cornell University
and Stephanie Luce of the University of Massachusetts found that at
least more than five times that number of jobs were lost in the same
period. They also estimate that in 2004 more than 400,000 jobs will be
shifted from the United States to other countries. That's nearly
twice the rate in 2001, and it represents about one-fourth of all mass
layoffs in 2004.

Despite the trend toward outsourcing white-collar jobs, Bronfenbrenner
and Luce found that more than four-fifths of job shifts were still in
manufacturing industries and more than one-third of the estimated
400,000 jobs shifted went to Mexico.

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johnny@. wrote:
> The closing of the Galesburg Maytag plant has left more manufacturing
> workers pondering an uncertain future
> By David Moberg
>
>
>
> Galesburg, Illinois-Many Americans dream of getting rich. Aaron Kemp
> had more modest ambitions. "I wanted to work at a decent job and earn
> a decent wage, with decent benefits, so I can raise my kids, give
them
> a decent education and maybe take them out to Pizza Hut on a Friday
> night. I don't need a Mercedes, just a ho-hum existence, and now,"
> he says, with sadness and anger in his voice, "it seems hard to even
> do that."
>
> Eight years ago, Kemp began working at the factory of Maytag
> Corporation, the largest employer in Galesburg, a western Illinois
town
> of 34,000 and the birthplace of poet Carl Sandburg. In September,
> Maytag finally closed the plant, after sending a large part of the
work
> that 1,600 people had recently been performing to a new Maytag
factory
> in Reynosa, Mexico; another large part to Daewoo, a Korean
> multinational subcontractor that is expected to build a plant in
> Mexico; and a few dozen jobs to a plant in Iowa. Now Kemp, a
> 31-year-old union safety and education official with a muscular build
> and a small goatee, has a temporary job as a counselor to laid-off
> workers at two-thirds his old pay.
>
> The local Machinists union fought the shutdown, taking their case to
> the streets, to the press, to politicians and to Maytag shareholders,
> even winning national attention when Senator-elect Barack Obama
> mentioned their cause in his Democratic convention keynote speech.
But
> the union could not stop the Maytag jobs from being added to the
tally
> of 2.7 million manufacturing jobs lost since 2000. Those several
> million jobs were eliminated for many reasons-including declining
> demand, rising efficiency and increased imports-but a significant
> portion are the result of U.S. multinational corporations, like
Maytag,
> moving production out of the country.
>
> Although the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics concluded that during
the
> first three months of this year only 4,633 workers lost jobs because
of
> investment shifts overseas, a study for the U.S.-China Economic and
> Security Review Commission by Kate Bronfenbrenner of Cornell
University
> and Stephanie Luce of the University of Massachusetts found that at
> least more than five times that number of jobs were lost in the same
> period. They also estimate that in 2004 more than 400,000 jobs will
be
> shifted from the United States to other countries. That's nearly
> twice the rate in 2001, and it represents about one-fourth of all
mass
> layoffs in 2004.
>
> Despite the trend toward outsourcing white-collar jobs,
Bronfenbrenner
> and Luce found that more than four-fifths of job shifts were still in
> manufacturing industries and more than one-third of the estimated
> 400,000 jobs shifted went to Mexico.
>
> http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/1790/

Who will buy the new washing machines? These companies are thumbing
their noses at America and all American workers. We should punish
them by starting a huge boycott of all the products they make. We
should get a list of the major companies who have screwed America in
lets say the last five or ten years and shove their money grubbing
policys way up their asses. They may never come back but we should not
make it easier for them to take the money and run. The AFL-CIO web
page has a boycott page which I check out from time to time. I am
going there right now and get an update.

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johnny@. wrote:
> The closing of the Galesburg Maytag plant has left more manufacturing
> workers pondering an uncertain future
> By David Moberg
>
>
>
> Galesburg, Illinois-Many Americans dream of getting rich. Aaron Kemp
> had more modest ambitions. "I wanted to work at a decent job and earn
> a decent wage, with decent benefits, so I can raise my kids, give
them
> a decent education and maybe take them out to Pizza Hut on a Friday
> night. I don't need a Mercedes, just a ho-hum existence, and now,"
> he says, with sadness and anger in his voice, "it seems hard to even
> do that."
>
> Eight years ago, Kemp began working at the factory of Maytag
> Corporation, the largest employer in Galesburg, a western Illinois
town
> of 34,000 and the birthplace of poet Carl Sandburg. In September,
> Maytag finally closed the plant, after sending a large part of the
work
> that 1,600 people had recently been performing to a new Maytag
factory
> in Reynosa, Mexico; another large part to Daewoo, a Korean
> multinational subcontractor that is expected to build a plant in
> Mexico; and a few dozen jobs to a plant in Iowa. Now Kemp, a
> 31-year-old union safety and education official with a muscular build
> and a small goatee, has a temporary job as a counselor to laid-off
> workers at two-thirds his old pay.
>
> The local Machinists union fought the shutdown, taking their case to
> the streets, to the press, to politicians and to Maytag shareholders,
> even winning national attention when Senator-elect Barack Obama
> mentioned their cause in his Democratic convention keynote speech.
But
> the union could not stop the Maytag jobs from being added to the
tally
> of 2.7 million manufacturing jobs lost since 2000. Those several
> million jobs were eliminated for many reasons-including declining
> demand, rising efficiency and increased imports-but a significant
> portion are the result of U.S. multinational corporations, like
Maytag,
> moving production out of the country.
>
> Although the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics concluded that during
the
> first three months of this year only 4,633 workers lost jobs because
of
> investment shifts overseas, a study for the U.S.-China Economic and
> Security Review Commission by Kate Bronfenbrenner of Cornell
University
> and Stephanie Luce of the University of Massachusetts found that at
> least more than five times that number of jobs were lost in the same
> period. They also estimate that in 2004 more than 400,000 jobs will
be
> shifted from the United States to other countries. That's nearly
> twice the rate in 2001, and it represents about one-fourth of all
mass
> layoffs in 2004.
>
> Despite the trend toward outsourcing white-collar jobs,
Bronfenbrenner
> and Luce found that more than four-fifths of job shifts were still in
> manufacturing industries and more than one-third of the estimated
> 400,000 jobs shifted went to Mexico.
>
> http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/1790/

Who will buy the new washing machines? These companies are thumbing
their noses at America and all American workers. We should punish
them by starting a huge boycott of all the products they make. We
should get a list of the major companies who have screwed America in
lets say the last five or ten years and shove their money grubbing
policys way up their asses. They may never come back but we should not
make it easier for them to take the money and run. The AFL-CIO web
page has a boycott page which I check out from time to time. I am
going there right now and get an update.

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tmurph2@peoplepc.com wrote:
> johnny@. wrote:
>
>>The closing of the Galesburg Maytag plant has left more manufacturing
>>workers pondering an uncertain future
>>By David Moberg
>>
>>
>>
>>Galesburg, Illinois-Many Americans dream of getting rich. Aaron Kemp
>>had more modest ambitions. "I wanted to work at a decent job and earn
>>a decent wage, with decent benefits, so I can raise my kids, give
>
> them
>
>>a decent education and maybe take them out to Pizza Hut on a Friday
>>night. I don't need a Mercedes, just a ho-hum existence, and now,"
>>he says, with sadness and anger in his voice, "it seems hard to even
>>do that."
>>
>>Eight years ago, Kemp began working at the factory of Maytag
>>Corporation, the largest employer in Galesburg, a western Illinois
>
> town
>
>>of 34,000 and the birthplace of poet Carl Sandburg. In September,
>>Maytag finally closed the plant, after sending a large part of the
>
> work
>
>>that 1,600 people had recently been performing to a new Maytag
>
> factory
>
>>in Reynosa, Mexico; another large part to Daewoo, a Korean
>>multinational subcontractor that is expected to build a plant in
>>Mexico; and a few dozen jobs to a plant in Iowa. Now Kemp, a
>>31-year-old union safety and education official with a muscular build
>>and a small goatee, has a temporary job as a counselor to laid-off
>>workers at two-thirds his old pay.
>>
>>The local Machinists union fought the shutdown, taking their case to
>>the streets, to the press, to politicians and to Maytag shareholders,
>>even winning national attention when Senator-elect Barack Obama
>>mentioned their cause in his Democratic convention keynote speech.
>
> But
>
>>the union could not stop the Maytag jobs from being added to the
>
> tally
>
>>of 2.7 million manufacturing jobs lost since 2000. Those several
>>million jobs were eliminated for many reasons-including declining
>>demand, rising efficiency and increased imports-but a significant
>>portion are the result of U.S. multinational corporations, like
>
> Maytag,
>
>>moving production out of the country.
>>
>>Although the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics concluded that during
>
> the
>
>>first three months of this year only 4,633 workers lost jobs because
>
> of
>
>>investment shifts overseas, a study for the U.S.-China Economic and
>>Security Review Commission by Kate Bronfenbrenner of Cornell
>
> University
>
>>and Stephanie Luce of the University of Massachusetts found that at
>>least more than five times that number of jobs were lost in the same
>>period. They also estimate that in 2004 more than 400,000 jobs will
>
> be
>
>>shifted from the United States to other countries. That's nearly
>>twice the rate in 2001, and it represents about one-fourth of all
>
> mass
>
>>layoffs in 2004.
>>
>>Despite the trend toward outsourcing white-collar jobs,
>
> Bronfenbrenner
>
>>and Luce found that more than four-fifths of job shifts were still in
>>manufacturing industries and more than one-third of the estimated
>>400,000 jobs shifted went to Mexico.
>>
>>http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/1790/
>
>
> Who will buy the new washing machines? These companies are thumbing
> their noses at America and all American workers. We should punish
> them by starting a huge boycott of all the products they make. We
> should get a list of the major companies who have screwed America in
> lets say the last five or ten years and shove their money grubbing
> policys way up their asses. They may never come back but we should not
> make it easier for them to take the money and run. The AFL-CIO web
> page has a boycott page which I check out from time to time. I am
> going there right now and get an update.
>
I have a Maytag washer, but it will be the last one.

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>
>
> The closing of the Galesburg Maytag plant has left more manufacturing
> workers pondering an uncertain future
> By David Moberg

This Maytag situation has been a long time in the making. Sweeney,
Stern, Trumka and the other jews at the AFL-CIO will grouse
around---flap their wings---and do nothing.

I'll take that back; the jews at the AFL-CIO will want to import more
mestizos to pimp, more illegal alien "freedom riders" for us to pay our
per capita for, more mestizos for us White American union members to pay
taxes for their upkeep & education...




>
>
>
> Galesburg, Illinois-Many Americans dream of getting rich. Aaron Kemp
> had more modest ambitions. "I wanted to work at a decent job and earn
> a decent wage, with decent benefits, so I can raise my kids, give them
> a decent education and maybe take them out to Pizza Hut on a Friday
> night. I don't need a Mercedes, just a ho-hum existence, and now,"
> he says, with sadness and anger in his voice, "it seems hard to even
> do that."
>
> Eight years ago, Kemp began working at the factory of Maytag
> Corporation, the largest employer in Galesburg, a western Illinois town
> of 34,000 and the birthplace of poet Carl Sandburg. In September,
> Maytag finally closed the plant, after sending a large part of the work
> that 1,600 people had recently been performing to a new Maytag factory
> in Reynosa, Mexico; another large part to Daewoo, a Korean
> multinational subcontractor that is expected to build a plant in
> Mexico; and a few dozen jobs to a plant in Iowa. Now Kemp, a
> 31-year-old union safety and education official with a muscular build
> and a small goatee, has a temporary job as a counselor to laid-off
> workers at two-thirds his old pay.
>
> The local Machinists union fought the shutdown, taking their case to
> the streets, to the press, to politicians and to Maytag shareholders,
> even winning national attention when Senator-elect Barack Obama
> mentioned their cause in his Democratic convention keynote speech. But
> the union could not stop the Maytag jobs from being added to the tally
> of 2.7 million manufacturing jobs lost since 2000. Those several
> million jobs were eliminated for many reasons-including declining
> demand, rising efficiency and increased imports-but a significant
> portion are the result of U.S. multinational corporations, like Maytag,
> moving production out of the country.
>
> Although the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics concluded that during the
> first three months of this year only 4,633 workers lost jobs because of
> investment shifts overseas, a study for the U.S.-China Economic and
> Security Review Commission by Kate Bronfenbrenner of Cornell University
> and Stephanie Luce of the University of Massachusetts found that at
> least more than five times that number of jobs were lost in the same
> period. They also estimate that in 2004 more than 400,000 jobs will be
> shifted from the United States to other countries. That's nearly
> twice the rate in 2001, and it represents about one-fourth of all mass
> layoffs in 2004.
>
> Despite the trend toward outsourcing white-collar jobs, Bronfenbrenner
> and Luce found that more than four-fifths of job shifts were still in
> manufacturing industries and more than one-third of the estimated
> 400,000 jobs shifted went to Mexico.
>
> http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/1790/

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> > The closing of the Galesburg Maytag plant has left more manufacturing
> > workers pondering an uncertain future
> > By David Moberg
>
> This Maytag situation has been a long time in the making. Sweeney,
> Stern, Trumka and the other jews at the AFL-CIO will grouse
> around---flap their wings---and do nothing.
>
> I'll take that back; the jews at the AFL-CIO will want to import more
> mestizos to pimp, more illegal alien "freedom riders" for us to pay our
> per capita for, more mestizos for us White American union members to pay
> taxes for their upkeep & education...


Yes, a long time in the making indeed, not just in America
but right around the industrialised world.

People with just a little bit of intelligence KNOW, that this is not
the fault of migrant worker, guest workers etc.

It is the deliberate policy of the traitors, corporations
and the like, with the collaboration of their, (not our) governments.

The Frank's and Osama Bin Kerry's (and their ilk) pals in fact.

Union members and supporters already know this and who
the real enemy are.

FYI Pennsylvania Dutch, the enemy comes in all shades.
There are more Jewish people on our side than in the enemy ranks.
There are many Catholics, Protestants and the neo-Christians
such as Bush on the traitors side.

You all need to know, that it is the policy of government,
as dictated by their masters, the corporations, that set the
policy, not immigrants or illegals.

So any union member or supporter out there who may be a little bit
confused on this issue, do not blame the migrants, sell the union
to them, sign them up and ensure that they receive the correct pay
and conditions. Continue to recruit American non-union workers.

Solidarity is the objective not division.

Get involved in local, state and fed politics, kick out the real
traitors that are selling us out, at every election.

pjl

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> Who will buy the new washing machines?

I will, with unbridled glee. Go ahead, launch a boycott, they are SO
EFFECTIVE! lol

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tmurph2@peoplepc.com wrote:

> >
> Who will buy the new washing machines? These companies are thumbing
> their noses at America and all American workers. We should punish
> them by starting a huge boycott of all the products they make. We
> should get a list of the major companies who have screwed America in
> lets say the last five or ten years

There's already a list- http://tinyurl.com/3dlk5

You can start there. Better yet try making a list of companies that
DON'T make some portion of their products overseas- it's just about
impossible anymore, making the idea of a "boycott" seem rather absurd
(unless you decide to live in a tent [one that was manufactured decades
ago] and grow your own. Look, I buy American/Union made as much as I can
but it's getting to be a quaint, 20th Century anachronism to even try.
There are whole segments of consumer goods in which there simply is no
choice.

(I recently saw someone call for a boycott of all the companies that do
business with Wal-Mart- wow, now that guy is going to have a tough time
shopping in the US...)

Even the flag-waving, AFL-CIO Union Label award winners' products
(Carhartt is a perfect example) now make much of their stuff elsewhere.



http://www.usatoday.com/money/compa...-500-list_x.htm


> The AFL-CIO web
> page has a boycott page which I check out from time to time. I am
> going there right now and get an update.

The Boycott List tends to be only companies where a long strike is
on-going and/or has busted their unions. A company like Maytag will
often never make the List because, no doubt, what little manufacturing
they still do in Iowa is still in a union shop (making it more
difficult, it may be another Int'l). For instance, look up "Washing
Machine" on the Union Label page http://www.unionlabel.org/do_buy.asp
and you'll find that 1 of only 2 hits is:

Category: Washing Machines, Clothes Dryers
Unions: (UAW Local 997)
Brand: Maytag
Company Information
Maytag
240 Edwards St.
Cleveland TN 37311
1-800-688-9900

Note that the only other hit is for FRIGIDAIRE INC./ELECTROLUX which has
within recent years closed plants in Michigan and in New Jersey.

Also, a non-union company that manufactures ALL it products overseas
won't show up on the AFL-CIO Boycott List simply for being non-union or
foreign made.

Better to use the "DO BUY" list and THEN pay close attention to the
product when you buy it. (For example, you may see Carhartt on the
list, and find a MADE IN THE USA label in a pair of 28' Waist pants but
the one that fits you will say MADE IN MEXICO.) Don't go by brand name,
what it says on the display model or what the retailer or #800 "help" says.

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jesskidden@YAH00.com wrote:

> For instance, look up "Washing
> Machine" on the Union Label page http://www.unionlabel.org/do_buy.asp
> and you'll find that 1 of only 2 hits is:
>
> Category: Washing Machines, Clothes Dryers
> Unions: (UAW Local 997)
> Brand: Maytag
Company Information
Maytag
240 Edwards St.
Cleveland TN 37311

Or, look up "appliances" on the UAW page...

http://www.uaw.org/uawmade/appliances.cfm

and find:

Maytag
UAW Local 997, Iowa

Washing machines
Clothes dryers

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>
>> Who will buy the new washing machines?
>
>I will, with unbridled glee. Go ahead, launch a boycott, they are SO
>EFFECTIVE! lol
>

But haven't Maytags been going down in quality?

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