Ford Motor employs 5,600 at two factories in the Louisville area, and General Motors employs 2,000 at its Corvette plant in Bowling Green, 115 miles southwest of Louisville, The Courier-Journal says today in a story about Kentucky's Republican senators opposing a Democratic proposal to bail out the domestic auto industry.
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Also, a number of plants that supply parts to those factories are located in Ky. and southern Indiana, involving hundreds more jobs.
ReplyDeleteAlso airport employees and maintenance crews responsible for upkeep of those exlusive executive jets the Detroit heavies flew to Washington to ask for taxpayer money. How outrageous. What p.r. person didn't see that one coming? It's like Tara doing nothing while GCI execs dine cost-free in exclusive cafeterias while mapping plans to destroy the lives of $35k a year employees.
ReplyDelete...yes and spilling their Lobster Thermador lunches on our layoff papers.
ReplyDeleteI work in McLean and haven't seen any cost-free cafeterias. Can you help me locate those?
ReplyDeleteI haven't seen those cost-free cafeterias in McLean, either. This kind of faux blue-collar fantasy is cliche and cheapens the blog.
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