Thursday, June 14, 2012

The Walker Budget Keeps On Working! Part CXIII

Another day, another 120 workers lose their job, thanks to Walker's booming economic principles:
Kraft Foods Group will close its manufacturing facility here in the second quarter of 2013 and lay off 120 employees in a cost-cutting move.

Workers at the plant at 705 W. Fulton St. were told of the future closure Tuesday.

The factory was built in 1954 and acquired by Kraft in 1987 for the production of specialty spreads and cheeses under the Athenos, Kraft and Hoffman’s brands.

“Waupaca doesn’t have enough volume to support the plant’s overhead costs effectively for the future,” spokeswoman Joyce Hodel told The Post-Crescent on Tuesday. “It also has limited space to accommodate additional volume.”
The article goes on to say that they will give the Waupaca workers first dibs on the 20 jobs they'll open up in Wausau. The workers will have the choice of commuting over 100 miles daily, moving their families out of their communities and away from from family and friends, or trying their luck with the other 100 workers that are being left high and dry.

And if any of those jobs are still open after the Waupaca workers have their dibs, I'm sure the 1,000+ people in Central Wisconsin that lost their jobs in the past year will be applying.

Meanwhile, as the number of jobs keep dropping, Walker keeps telling us it's really a good thing.

1 comment:

  1. I guess I never will get it.

    Here's a big company, they can go anywhere, really. Any town, any state.

    The company probably let everything from buildings and equipment languish while the competition (since 1987) has started to grow.


    This is a great example of a big company saying F-off local community, more money for us elsewhere. The company was probably trying to force the local populace into letting it remain there tax-free, with local incentives (to pay for their own mismanagement of the property), maybe if they could pay people less, etc, etc, etc.


    And, like a lot of big companies, yeah, sure, we'll hire anyone at the plant here to go work a few hours away at another plant.


    Because that company pays so much where anyone, anywhere in the state of Wisconsin could simply just pick up and go work there, families and all.




    Think Wausau and this company are getting some state tax and other incentives (aka, taxpayers for private industry) to move and expand up there?


    And the profits all go out to what state?

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