Hanesbrands plans earlier closing of Eden plant
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From staff reports
Published: December 2, 2008
EDEN (AP) - Hanesbrands Inc. plans to shutter a North Carolina fabric textile plant earlier than expected.
Hanesbrands spokesman Matt Hall told WXII-TV in Winston-Salem on Tuesday that its plant in Eden will close by mid-February. It had been slated to close by the end of next summer. The plant is the company’s last large knit-fabric textile plant in the U.S.
Workers were being told of the shortened timetable on Tuesday and Wednesday.
The Winston-Salem-based company announced in September that it was closing nine plants in Central America and the U.S., resulting in jobs losses for 8,100 workers. The company is moving production to Asia.
The closings also include a yarn plant in Gastonia, a knit-fabric textile plant in Forest City, and an inventory storage warehouse in Rockingham.
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Posted by ( 58rebel ) on December 03, 2008 at 3:38 pm
One of the last nails in Edens coffin. This is what free trade has done for America. When will Washington stop murdering our economy and wake up. They need to reverse this trend before it’s to late. This will hurt us all in the long run. Why are we as a people still taking this lying down. No one in Washington had a plan to replace these jobs because thinking ahead was not in the plans. I hope Obama can see what’s happening in America since NAFTA was signed. I wish the best for these employees losing their jobs and I pray that Americans wake up one day and say, “ No More “.
Nafta= economic and social death
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