Layoffs just keep grinding at Ohio

[OhioChick]

Source: Columbus Dispatch

Wednesday, June 4, 2008 3:25 AM

A bad year for Ohio workers just got worse.

General Motors said yesterday that it will close its sport-utility-vehicle plant south of Dayton in Moraine, one of four plants the company is shutting down in North America.

The move, which will cost Ohio roughly 2,400 jobs, is an exclamation point in a year of grim job news.

Ohio lost 19,423 jobs to mass layoffs in the first three months of this year, the greatest first-quarter loss this decade.

More recently, the bad news has continued to come in waves, from the sudden demise of Skybus in early April to last week's word that ABX Air could lose thousands of jobs in Wilmington because it no longer would provide services to package shipper DHL.

The worst might be yet to come. In all but one of the last eight years, the most layoffs happened in the fourth quarter.



Read more: http://www.columbusdispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2008/06/04/layoffs_roundup.ART_ART_06-04-08_A1_H5AD6MA.html?sid=101

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It's just not ending here in Ohio. :(

[Javaman]

1. Like I have been saying for a while now...

Some areas of this nation are in an outright depression.

[gratuitous]

2. Snippet this morning on the business news segment

Worker productivity is up again, something like 2.5%, while labor costs are down about 2.1%. So while the workers are working harder and more efficiently, they're being paid less. Someone's getting the benefit of that labor, I wonder who it could be?

Think, think.

[MattNC]

3. It boggles the mind

that Ohio should even be competitive in November.

[OhioChick]

4. It truly does, doesn't it? n/t

[damntexdem]

5. But will the mind be unboggled, and Ohio solidly in the Dem camp come November?

There's just something about losing one's job, or fearing to, that tends to concentrate the mind.

[OhioChick]

8. Don't forget that much of central/southern Ohio

is the bible belt, as well as one-issue voters.

They don't want "them" abortions or gays marrying.....

[daggahead]

6. Ohio may catch up

... to Michigan in unemployment.

What a dilemma ... keep workers working, but kill the SUV industry. We humans (mostly Americans) have certainly woven an intricate web ...

[OhioChick]

7. We're not too far off from you. n/t