How Many More Job Losses For Northwest Ohio ?
Submitted by Irishbobcat on Tue, 10/05/2010 - 10:06pm.
How Many More Job Losses For Northwest Ohio?
The Toledo Blade recently reported:
Since Jan. 1, 2009, four northwest Ohio factories have closed, shipping their work to Indiana and costing the state 319 jobs.
In the same period, a Blade investigation found, at least 11 other manufacturers employing about 1,900 people in the region have closed and shipped work to North Carolina, Tennessee, Illinois, and elsewhere within the United States.
Massive job losses caused by factory closures are nothing new in northwest Ohio and southeast Michigan. Going back to 2000,
The Blade found about 140 factories with 20 or more employees that closed in northwest Ohio, totaling about 18,000 lost jobs. More than two dozen factory closings - costing about 3,500 jobs - were counted in Lenawee, Hillsdale, and Monroe counties in southeast Michigan.
County by county, town by town, there are thousands of stories of homes and health insurance lost, slashed salaries for those lucky enough to find new jobs, and years of emotional distress for those who were handed permanent pink slips.
Dennis S. Spisak
