236 people from Shaw Industries in Stevenson, Alabama will be laid off near the end of this year.
EMC announced it was laying off 1250 jobs from its American operations. Unaffected were the New Zealand and Australian plants.
Employees at two condom plants in east Alabama are being cut back. Tough times are forcing Alatech Healthcare to lay off employees in Eufaula and Slocomb.
The Eufaula plant has been supplying products since the earlier nineties and some say job loss affects the entire community. "We already have a really slow economy here and we need more jobs brought in, not taken away," said Erica Peacock, Eufaula Resident.
In two weeks nearly 150 people from the Eufaula and Slocomb plants will be out of a job. The company says its largest customer, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is taking part of their business to China and South Korea. "They cut our order in half, therefore this has forced us to cut back our staff," said Larry Povlacs, Alatech Healthcare President.
Employees were told two months ago who would be affected by the layoff. Povlacs says after the lay off only 45 employees will be left in the Eufaula plant and 65 in the Slocomb plant. Alatech hopes they can call back some employees if business picks up.
You know you need a Fallback Position if condom sales are dropping and people are being laid off from their plants. And if your government is outsourcing orders to Asia.
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