When the Honeywell plant closed in Scarborough, 250 people, many of whom had worked there for decades, were unemployed. That was through the early months of last year. Only 18 have found work. Most are chasing jobs that pay about half the $20 an hour, plus benefits, that they earned on the assembly line. An all too familiar tale for far too long – time to act. John Ayers.
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I have lost count at the number of places I worked in where this has happened.It is in the dozens.Even when I got work reasonably quickly it still took ages to recover the loss of earnings.Honeywell also had a plant not far from one of my workplaces and I watched as its premises shrunk from a frontispece on the main highway to a small offshoot and then altogether and the area around it in Bellshill Lanarkshire became a blighted social blackspot taking a generation to have some recovery,so called, but into low paid service sector type employment.
ReplyDeleteIt knocks the guts out of people.