No deal yet at Springfield Navistar plant, layoff about 700 and moving jobs to Mexico

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.bizjournals.com/dayton/stories/2007/10/01/daily4.html

The contract between the United Auto Workers and Navistar International Corp. expired at midnight Sunday without a deal.

"The union and company continue to work toward an agreement today," said Charlie Hayden, president of UAW Local 402, which represents about 1,000 active and laid-off workers at the mid-size truck plant.

Last week, Navistar notified the Springfield plant that it would layoff about 700 production workers starting Monday. The company will move that work to plants in Texas and Mexico to ensure orders are met, the company said.

Fewer than 100 workers in the stamping and paint operations, who are not part of the layoff, reported to work as usual this morning, Hayden said.

Hayden said any call for a strike would come from the UAW in Detroit.

"We're on standby," he said, "waiting for the leadership to tell us what we need to do."

FULL story at link.

[Mountainman]

1. I lived in Dayton when NCR, Frigidaire, Delco, Chrysler Airtemp laid off everyone

they could.

[Bitwit1234]

2. Americans are stupid as hell. They should tell this companies

to suck it up, because we are not going to buy anything else from a company that moves overseas. But they won't they go ahead and buy the stuff anyway. If we stopped buying, they would have to go out of business.