Wednesday, June 04, 2008

More Than Just GM

The Cap Times continues to talk down Wisconsin’s economy (yes, that was sarcastic). 

GM dominated the “plant closing” news Tuesday, but four other companies in Wisconsin announced they were closing operations or laying off workers.

Two of the firms closing are in Janesville, where GM will shut down its oldest production facility over the next two years, while another firm is closing in Elkhorn, and hundreds are being laid off in Wausau.

ThyssenKrupp Drauz Nothelfer NA and ThyssenKrupp Krause Inc. are closing their Janesville operations Sept. 30, with layoffs of 120 at ThyssenKrupp Drauz Nothelfer NA starting Friday and layoffs of 42 at ThyssenKrupp Krause Inc. starting Aug. 1. The firms make engine and transmission components and assembly line machinery for the auto industry.

Conn-Selmer Inc. is closing its Elkhorn facility starting Aug. 1, putting 73 out of a job. The company, headquartered in Elkhart, Ind., makes and distributes musical instruments for schools, professionals and the public and is a subsidiary of Steinway Musical Instruments.

WH Transportation Co. in Wausau is laying off 340 workers in its van freight operation, but will continue general flatbed freight runs and deliveries for manufactured structure companies Wausau Homes and Sterling Building Systems.

 

(7) Comments
Posted by Owen at 1206 hrs
Politics + Politics - Wisconsin

  1. That’s 575 more jobs on top of the almost 3,000 at GM.  Manufacturing jobs/private industry jobs lost in Wisconsin - we continue to bleed yet the politicians on both sides do nothing.

    Will the last person left please turn out the light.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on June 04, 2008 at 1347 hrs


  2. The worst part is that there isn’t any plan to grow Wisconsin.  The democrats have lots of plans for more welfare programs but no one has any plans on what we are going to grow the society’s welath to pay for them.
        We ran a conference called “Future Wisconsin”: “Create Wealth or More Welfare”.  That is the question what are we going to do to do that?
      By the way, on Aug. 10th we are going to have a Corn Roast for the one congressman that does have lots of plans for the future: Jim Sensenbrenner.  Plan to make it at my house in Wauwatosa.  Rally around the good guys.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on June 04, 2008 at 1445 hrs


  3. Sorry to rub this in. No wait a minute no I’m not.

    All we ever heard when we’d raise the point in places like this was, “there is market for SUV’s, let the market decide, blah, blah, blah.”

    Well the market did decide and it turns out to be a crushing blow for the families of GM employees in Janesville. Of course the execs who made the boneheaded decisions will be rewarded with bonuses for making the “hard choices” to closes these plants.

    But we all know the conservative line. Life isn’t fair.

    Another self promotion above by Dohnal. Yeah, we all know who is getting the real welfare.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on June 04, 2008 at 1711 hrs


  4. Texas is looking better all the time…

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on June 04, 2008 at 1738 hrs


  5. if the liberals hadn’t stopped all new drilling and new refineries in this country we would have gas to fuel ourr SUV’s and we would not have to close Janesville down.
        All of those in Janesville need to thank the Sierra Club and others.  Now they won’t have to work hard.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on June 04, 2008 at 2105 hrs


  6. No one does a classless post better than Bob Dohnal per the last sentence. Let’s keep pumpin’ those fossil fuels into the atmosphere.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on June 04, 2008 at 2219 hrs


  7. Well Keith, isn’t what he’s saying true?  And, unless you’re stupid, you know that burning oh, ethanol, creates carbon dioxide and water, just like burning gasoline does.

    Fuel cells, they create water vapor, an even WORSE greenhouse gas.  So if you’re worried about global warming, you need to man up and start walking everywhere.  Please, put your money where your mouth is.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on June 05, 2008 at 0701 hrs


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