New owner announces closings, job cuts at Hoover's home base

[OhioChick]

Source: AP

6:56 a.m. April 2, 2007

NORTH CANTON, Ohio – The Hong Kong-based company that acquired Hoover earlier this year from Whirlpool Corp. said Monday it will close the main campus and some manufacturing operations of the vacuum cleaner business by fall, resulting in 750 job cuts in Ohio.

The closings in North Canton will affect about 650 union manufacturing positions, 60 salaried manufacturing employees and 40 salaried non-manufacturing positions, said Kathy Obert, spokeswoman for Techtronics Industries Co. Ltd. Hoover had been based in the northeast Ohio city for nearly 100 years.

Officials from the company and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers union were meeting with employees Monday morning, Obert said.

A Hoover distribution center and a vacuum bag assembly plant in the area will remain open, but the local manufacturing work will be consolidated into Hoover manufacturing operations in El Paso, Texas, and Juarez, Mexico, the company said in a statement.



Read more: http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/business/20070402-0656-hoover-closings.html

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More jobs gone.......

[AndyA]

1. I'm surprised ANYONE in Ohio votes Republican.

As many jobs as that state has lost in its manufacturing sector since Bush took office, I'd think it would be hard to find ANYONE who would vote for a Repug up there.

The GOP has just devastated that state's job market.

[OrangeCountyDemocrat]

2. Most Repubs R Too Stupid To Realize What's Good For Them...

They'll vote for the repub no matter what.

I know someone who makes under $50K/yr., and thinks that repubs have their best interests at heart.

MORON!

[OhioChick]

4. Color us both surprised.

It's getting to be a ghost town here. Jobs leaving, so many foreclosures, etc.

[LisaM]

7. Because ONE gay marriage trumps everything else....

Tens of thousands (or more) of disenfranchised voters, more than 250,000 manufacturing jobs lost, at least 600,000 dead Iraqi civilians, more than 3000 dead American service men and women - all balanced out by the specter of gay marriage.

[OhioChick]

9. I'm pleased to say

that we currently have Ted Strickland, as well as Sherrod Brown. Ohio has turned quite "blue."

[LisaM]

13. I know! And I hear your new SOS is kicking ass

and taking names.

[OhioChick]

14. And it's about damn time! n/t

[DCKit]

8. Given what we know, who says they did? : )

[AndyA]

10. Good point. n/m

[SharonAnn]

17. I know. But I've got Michigan friend, Union member, who is still rabid GOP!

And he's mad at the Democrats for weakening the unions.

It's hard to know what to respond to him. I say things like, "Mmm".

[The_Casual_Observer]

3. They bought the name Hoover. It's like when they bought Packard

Bell & produced the cheapest junk PC's with that name & then when out of business. Within a year or two the same thing will happen to Hoover.

[Megahurtz]

5. MORE Job Cuts! WooHoo! WooHoo!

:woohoo::woohoo:

:sarcasm:

[asjr]

6. The list just keeps going. American lives

are being outsourced.

[Acadia Blue]

11. Perhaps these idiots will awaken when they have to beg for food.

[OhioChick]

12. Umm...

Aren't you in -- Louisiana......?

U.S. President -- Louisiana
Updated 11/24/04 1:59 AM ET
Precincts:100%

George W. Bush * (R) 1,101,871 57
John F. Kerry (D) 819,150 42
Other 20,628 1

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/elections/2004/la/

[brentspeak]

16. Er, Ohio went blue this past election

Strickland and Brown, remember? They just entered office a few months ago, and now have to deal with all the destruction the Ohio Republicans have left behind.

[cmd]

15. North Canton is in a blue county

Stark went for Kerry in the '04 election. Hoover was one of the backbone companies in the community. Sad.