Whirlpool will lay off 650 people at Amana facility

[Peacetrain]

Yesterday Whirlpool in Amana said it will lay off 650 workers. effective in June.. Amana is just down the road from us. .. Iowa is going to take it in the teeth again.. That is about one third of the employees..

https://www.thegazette.com/business/whirlpool-will-lay-off-650-people-at-amana-facility/

Are we winning yet??... Sorry folks I am so depressed right now

[Srkdqltr]

1. Do they say why?

[progressoid]

2. "necessary adjustments ... to align with current market conditions driven by consumer demand."

[Peacetrain]

3. The only thing the article says is

consumer demand.. well if you read further this facility makes refrigeration parts for a bunch of appliance names "The facility, in Middle Amana, assembles refrigeration products under the Amana, JennAir, KitchenAid, Maytag and Whirlpool brands."

[atreides1]

4. This is the official "Why"

"“This is really about aligning to current market conditions driven by consumer demand, particularly as it relates to some of the appliances (refrigeration) made in Amana,” Chad Parks, external communications director for Whirlpool Corporations, told The Gazette in an email."

[Squaredeal]

5. It doesn't matter if the stuff is made in America.

Looks like they’re predicting a recession.

[Peacetrain]

8. Looks like recession to me also

[BoRaGard]

6. GOP did this

These are all job losses caused by the GOP

[Peacetrain]

7. This insane tariff strategy that Trump is playing around with has everything to do with it

is my feeling.. everything..

[Srkdqltr]

9. Im old, i remember back in the late 90s early 00s. When layoffs started, slowly, then thousands at a time in auto,

And steel . took years to get back. Now its starting again. Pun dents at the time were cheering the layoffs because they made companies leaner and made more money. Until the workers could no longer afford the cars and the unsold were stashed wherever they could hide them and the came close to losing everything. Here we go again.

I'm no economist, just an old lady, but way back before me, Henry Ford paid workers enough so they could buy the cars they made because he knew that without buyers everything goes to he'll even for millionaires. (yes I know about Ford don't yell at me)

[Peacetrain]

10. Old lady here too...

I remember the layoffs.. when we bought our first house the interest rates were out of this world.. Hard times come and hard times go.. but I have never seen anyone purposefully run our economy into the ditch as quickly as this one has..Reagan took us from being the largest creditor nation in the world.. (people owing us money) to the largest debtor nation in the world in 8 short years.. Conservatives are so bad with money.. they always put stuff on the credit card.. so to speak.. Democrats will tax you for their programs.. but they make sure they are paid for unless it is and emergency..

[JT45242]

11. WOMP WOMP -- you reap what you so

2024
Iowa County, Iowa where Amana is
Trump 6068
Harris 3400

House
Marianetee Miller-Meeks (R) 5550
Christina Bohannon 3783

All Republicans for state office at similar numbers

Covid KImmy and the right to fire state will not help them.

[MayReasonRule]

13. The Sad Part Is The Leopard Is Eating The Faces Of Those That Voted For Harris As Well

The majority of the GOP is comprised of Darwin Award Winning fascists.

They are those that cling to the undying love of the hardcore 'believers', the unshakeable 'faith' of the fools and the dreamers and of course their 'holy devotion' to 'sins of the ages'.

And there's no easy way, when you're a hard core believer,
And you trust in the schemes of the fools and the dreamers
As their jubilant elation meets ultimate sorrow...
Catastrophe's joy will take 'em decades to swallow

I speak from experience.
I and mine are the only members of our collective families that escaped the Abrahamic blood cult of 'Christ' in which we were reared.

All the rest are "Nationalist Christians' aka Nat-Cs.
Truly Nat-C or Nazi no matter the name the abject depravity's always the same.

It is the Machiavellian fascists that are raping, pillaging and massacring individuals, families, communities and our nation writ large.

It is all the rest that suffer, the fools and the innocents alike.

Pain is often the great motivator for second order change.

Here's to that occurrence.
May reason rule!

[Dan]

12. I'm sadden for the people of Iowa that voted for the Democratic Party,

But rather elated to hear that the Republican Iowa Voters are taking one for Team Trump. Make America Great Again, go Trump.

[JT45242]

14. I am part of blue dot Iowa city

Not isolated enough from the disastrous effects of all their votes especially for schooling, LGBTQ, etc.

[MichMan]

15. Some here will be pleased I suspect

Those who have posted here advocating general economic boycotts are getting what they were hoping for.

[MichMan]

16. 15 years ago

Whirlpool: Keep It Made in America

The Whirlpool Corp. plans to start closing its refrigerator plant in Evansville, Ind., on March 26. The refrigerators now manufactured at this plant will be produced in Mexico, eliminating 1,100 local jobs. Meanwhile, Whirlpool--the world's largest home appliance maker--enjoys healthy profits and has received a $19 million economic matching grant that should be creating jobs here in America.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php/depts.washIngton.edu/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=151&topic_id=7476&mesg_id=7476