WARREN
General Electric is laying off 36 hourly positions at the Ohio Lamp plant on North Park Avenue, effective Monday.
Scott Moore, president of IUE-CWA Local 722, told 21 WFMJ-TV, The Vindicator’s broadcast partner, that the terminations are a result of legislation passed in July that outlawed incandescent light bulbs.
The layoffs leave 198 hourly employees at the plant.
Moore said other plants around the Ohio-Kentucky region will have layoffs as well, but could not say how many.
Workers who lose their jobs can receive benefits for one year, tuition reimbursement and unemployment pay.
Comments
Where is Bob Hagan and Tim Ryan? This seems like a material issue to address even if it's in Warren.
See guys, this is the kind of thing to try and stop, or alternatively, keep from happening again.
No more press conferences outside the lemon grove about sh*t that doesn't affect the valley. Focus on some local things to help your constituents.
Tyler,
Where were you last week when a plant is being shut down in Johnson's district? What does the lemon grove have to do with Warren?
http://www.vindy.com/news/2012/aug/04...
This is a result of our government insisting on consumers buying "energy efficient"? bulbs made in China. These "energy efficient" bulbs are filled with mercury and consumers are warned not to break them when disposing them, as the mercury will spill out into the atmosphere. So, after we pay $6.95 or more for one of these bulbs and after they expire, where do we dispose of them? Sounds like another government program will have to be invented at taxpayer expense to dispose of light bulbs we are being forced to use...all for the sake of saving energy???
WOW!! Only 36 workers being laid off. That pales in comparison to the thousands who lost there jobs when The King of Outsourcing, Mitt Flopper was running Bain Capital. He was so busy firing people that he didn't have time to pay his taxes.
GE ceo is buddy buddy with our President this plant closing is probably what communist red china wants so that they will keep loaning us more money. We are the largest debter nation in the world. I say give Mitt Romney a chance our present leader was given a chance and he failed.
President Obama saved thousands of jobs and prevented the unemployment rate from going over 25% according to Bush apointee and former Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson.
GM is ALIVE
BIN LADEN is DEAD
Thank You President Obama!!
they knew for years this was coming, no excuse for not switching to alternative product other than lack of caring for the workers
I don't see Johnson holding press conferences at the Lemon Grove talking about presidential candidates' tax returns while his constituents wait in line for food stamps. Whenever Johnson is on television he is focusing on keeping jobs and developing them. An elected official needs to put constituents first. Logic would deem there is much more Hagan could be doing to help the people who voted him in. Someone's tax returns are not going to create jobs and stop murders in his area. You really are average.
Where I was last week is not applicable. Mind your own business.
There are still many workers there. They are hoping GE will have them manufacture a LED bulb. Not sure where they got the legislation in July bit. It comes from legislation in 2007
Anyone want to see Obama's Birth Certificate?
It's underneath Romney's Tax Returns.
Get real and get off the Island(mike) and see whats happening in the real world.