Light bulb factory closes; End of era for U.S. means more jobs overseas

[babsbunny]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/07/AR2010090706933.html?wpisrc=nl_most

By Peter Whoriskey
Wednesday, September 8, 2010; 3:06 AM

WINCHESTER, VA. - The last major GE factory making ordinary incandescent light bulbs in the United States is closing this month, marking a small, sad exit for a product and company that can trace their roots to Thomas Alva Edison's innovations in the 1870s.

The remaining 200 workers at the plant here will lose their jobs.

"Now what're we going to do?" said Toby Savolainen, 49, who like many others worked for decades at the factory, making bulbs now deemed wasteful.

[Kalyke]

1. What you should do, Toby, what we ALL should do is have a

national strike and demand manufacturing jobs.