Whirlpool closing

[ceg4uk]

Just announced: Whirlpool plant in Evansville, Indiana (across from Henderson) is shutting down by 2010. Direct loss of 1400 jobs, indirect loss of countless more. Moving to Mexico.:mad:

[kybadcat36]

More jobs to Mexico. Put a high tax on there products!! This is a real blow to Southern Indiana, Western Ky, and Southern Illinois. 1400 out of a job by June 2010. :(SAD SAD SAD:(

[westkybanded]

Ouch... That place has been in trouble for a while now I think.

[Duster]

Ouch... That place has been in trouble for a while now I think.

May be the plant has just wore out a shame to lose that many jobs...It's been there as long as I remember. Used to be a joke around here...how do you get 15 hillbillys in a volkswagon bettle ? Just tell them Whirlpool is hireing.

[gobblergetter]

I grew up in Newburgh just five minutes from Eville and now live 20 minutes away in boonville. I know several people that work there. I hate to hear it. That place has been around for ages. They used to make supplies-airplanes and bullets there during WWII. Its more to evansville than an appliance factory. 1400 jobs is going to devastate a lot of families in the area. Hate to hear it. Outsourcing-gotta hate it.

[Kcoyboy]

Someone in the furnature business told me a while ago when North Carolina workers were losing their jobs to China. He said that when all the manufacturing goes to China then they will dictate prices and they will go way up. Once these jobs are lost they wont come back. Of cource the job figures wont show it because it will take 2 low paying jobs to keep that once higher paying worker to survive!

[limbhanger]

NAFTA cost me a job years ago, 1500 Thomson Consumer Electronics (RCA/GE) jobs went to Mexico. I heard about some of the issues at Whirlpool and it was the same road we went down. I said they would be closing and moving to Mexico. Whirlpool lasted about 3-4 yrs longer than I thought it would.

[Hoosier5]

I grew up in Newburgh just five minutes from Eville and now live 20 minutes away in boonville. I know several people that work there. I hate to hear it. That place has been around for ages.

Before moving here to Ky; I lived in Evansville for 35 years and thus sad to hear about Whirpool's moving it's plant to Mexico. I knew several who worked at Whirpool too. This plant closing will negatively affect that city's economy BIG TIME! Don't know what these people are going to survive this Country's tanking economy. We can thank BILL CLINTON & GEORGE H.W. BUSH for pushing NAFTA, thus sending our jobs to Mexico & Red China. People it is time to VOTE ALL "Free Traders" out-of-office.:mad:

[Willie]

http://www.courierpress.com/news/2009/aug/29/end-of-an-era/

[gobblergetter]

i found out this weekend that whirlpool had moved some of its plants to mexico once before and moved them back because the quality was so bad. I guess they didn't learn their lesson the first time.

[turk2di]

Somebody remind me again the positives of NAFTA!

[Deer Hunter]

Whirpool had a REAL big plant here in Fort Smith Arkansas and has been here for as long as i can remember up until about 4 years ago when they started shutting it down in phase's and relocateing it in Mexico. There is not much of if left at all will real soon be completely moved to Mexico. Whirpool was a major employer in Fort Smith and they were union, payed good with good benifits. But no more.

[limbhanger]

Somebody remind me again the positives of NAFTA! I got a better job!

As far as the quality, RCA/GE had more workers in Mexico, and 1 yr. after moving there, STILL hadn't run a full day's production. They used to have to run bus rts. to give the employees a ride to work or they wouldn't show up.

[smashdn]

Buy a Frigidaire, Kenmore, Electrolux, Tappan, Crowsley, or White Westinghouse range. They are made in the usa.

[Docknboatlift]

Mercury Marine and their union have gone to war in my former home town of Fond du Lac, WI, and it appears thousands (how many thousands depends on if you count good times or bad times employment levels) of jobs are in peril. Don't wish to argue the union/non-union argument as there is plenty to say on both sides.

Fact is, it's bad.

Sorry for those at Whirlpool.

[quackrstackr]

i found out this weekend that whirlpool had moved some of its plants to mexico once before and moved them back because the quality was so bad. I guess they didn't learn their lesson the first time.

They aren't the first and probably won't be the last. Moving a plant only for cheap labor many times brings on more problems than it fixes. The same can be said for China. China thumbs it's nose at patent laws and many companies find knockoffs of their patented product being pumped out for pennies on the dollar by a plant set up in Wun Hung Lo's garage down the street. Usually by the same people that work the day shift at the patent holder's plant.

They just can't resist the urge to roll the dice and move to these cheap labor countries.

Until the US consumer starts looking to support their own instead of what's cheapest, nothing is going to change. This country has had a shift in mindset from saving up to pay a premium for something that may last their lifetime to buying cheap, disposable junk every few years.

[NonTyp]

Buy a Kenmore. They are made in the usa.

They are made in the USA.........mostly by Whirlpool!;)

[smashdn]

They are made in the USA.........mostly by Whirlpool!;)

Not ranges. I am sitting right in the middle of the plant they are made in as I type this. Thanks for mis-quoting me.

[Bray]

We are in the process of building/remodleing a house. Have plans on buying all new appliances next month. We had looked at Whirlpool and Electrolux. I was having a hard time justifying the extra price for the Electrolux but this made my mind up.

[raven_over_easy]

We are in the process of building/remodleing a house. Have plans on buying all new appliances next month. We had looked at Whirlpool and Electrolux. I was having a hard time justifying the extra price for the Electrolux but this made my mind up.

Dont forget about GE made right here in Louisville, KY.

[smashdn]

We are in the process of building/remodleing a house. Have plans on buying all new appliances next month. We had looked at Whirlpool and Electrolux. I was having a hard time justifying the extra price for the Electrolux but this made my mind up.

All the brands I mentioned are made in the same factory albeit they run down different assembly lines. The e-line produces like 80 units a day. It is dedicated solely to Electrolux branded ranges. The lines that run kenmore product produce over 1000 units per day per line. That includes all of the other brands that I mentioned in my first post too.

The thing that I can suggest when buying a slide in range is decide just how many features you want to stuff into a 30x30x40 square. You can only stuff so much usefullness in to a box that size.

When I said that they are made in the usa, most every part is made here. we get rolls of steel in one door and press most all steel parts, paint, enamel our own, silk screen it here, assemble it here all under one roof. The electrical parts come from elsewhere but come from the same suppliers that other manufacturers use.

Kenmore Elites and Frigidaire Gallery series have many of the same features as the E-Lux ranges but they may use different marketing terms for them.

[NonTyp]

Not ranges. I am sitting right in the middle of the plant they are made in as I type this. Thanks for mis-quoting me.

I guess range would be the key word here.:o I know Whirlpool made washers and dryers for Kenmore.

[gobblergetter]

They are made in the USA.........mostly by Whirlpool!;)


Not anymore...:D whirlpool is now mexican