Corning Inc. moving factory to Mexico

[Omaha Steve]

Source: Gannett News Service

By Larry Wilson

CORNING — Corning Inc. said Wednesday it will move its laboratory glassware business from its Big Flats plant to Monterrey, Mexico.

The move will allow the Twin Tiers' largest employer to concentrate at Big Flats on more lucrative drug discovery products, said Mark A. Beck, vice president and general manager of Corning Life Sciences.

Beck declined to say how many employees will be affected by the change, which will occur over two years. Mike Walker, president of Local 1000 of the United Steelworkers of America, said about 50 of the 70 union employees at Big Flats will be affected.
Beck said many of those whose jobs are being shifted to Mexico will be eligible to apply for jobs in other Corning Inc. facilities in the region. Others will be able to retire, said Corning spokesman Dan Collins.

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[bluerum]

1. They are keeping the plant in Big Flats. It will be a research faility. eom

[eppur_se_muova]

2. Well, there's always Kontes or LabGlass.

Will have to check on their records.

[lancer78]

3. We are sending

factories over there so they do not come up here.

[Xenotime]

4. I was going to say something like that...

[KansDem]

11. How about "We have to employ them over there so we won't have to employ them over here."

Has a familiar ring to it...

[fasttense]

5. I am so glad Corning Inc. is able to get rid of those US jobs.

If sending some jobs to other countries is good for America, then it is logical that sending all our jobs to other countries and hiring HB1 visa holder for the remaining jobs here in the US will be grrrreat. :sarcasm:

[OhioChick]

6. Screwing the American Worker

Once again......

[SOS]

7. Hillary betrayed by lying Republicans?

From the NYT:

Company Finds Clinton Useful, and Vice Versa

"Corning Inc., one of upstate New York's largest and oldest employers, has supported Republican candidates for so long that its chairman once joked that it had not raised money for a Democrat since 1812.

But since Hillary Rodham Clinton was elected to the Senate in 2000, Corning and its mainly Republican executives have become one of her largest sources of campaign contributions. And in that time, Mrs. Clinton has become one of the company's leading champions, delivering for it like no other Democratic lawmaker."

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/12/nyregion/12hillary.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

[MetaTrope]

8. The peso seems to be one of the few currencies actually getting weaker against the dollar

But they love us for it!

[auburngrad82]

9. Can we change the name from Corning, NY to Outsourced, NY? nt

[Zorra]

10. Condolences for yet more American workers losing jobs to NAFTA and

the globalists.

I have become a total protectionist. Globalism and "free" trade is destroying America.

[EVDebs]

12. How much $ is Corning claiming to 'save' ? When all mfgs in US practice this

the demand for their products will end up decreasing. Typical beggar-thy-neighbor practices end up destroying the entire industry.