Let me post below some information about one specific plant closing in Waukesha County, and then links to bigger-picture state data bases so you can understand how phony is that "Open for Business" propaganda GOP Gov. Scott Walker installed at our state borders.
I posted an item Sunday about a Wisconsin plant closing in Waukesha County where 39 union workers will lose their jobs.
Here is a link to a Department of Workforce Development data base about plant closings and layoffs meeting certain criteria which required them to be reported to the state.
And here is a second link with more than 100, facility-by-facility, location-by-location closings this year in Wisconsin today affecting more than 7,000 workers.
Consult this the next time you read a posting or story or Tweet from Scott Walker about what a success he's been.
I posted an item Sunday about a Wisconsin plant closing in Waukesha County where 39 union workers will lose their jobs.
Waukesha County reliably supplies GOP Gov. Scott Walker and his pro-business party with their biggest block of votes.
But the unattractive state economy Walker has led for six years - - highlighted by now-sickly-ironic "Open for Business" billboards at the borders, plus...
misleading tweets, staged pep talks, broken political promises, apparently useless trade missions and incoherent and ineffective policies managed by scandal-ridden departments - - isn't creating jobs and does nothing when companies pull out from Brillion to Madison (Oscar Mayer) to South Milwaukee (Caterpillar) to Manitowoc Crane.
And Team Walker can't even save good jobs in the heart of his base.
The facility for Walter USA, a division of a Germany-based tools company, is at N22 W23855 RidgeView Parkway West in Waukesha...
Hourly union employees are represented by District Lodge No. 10, Inernational Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, AFL-CIO.
Note that the company being closed is owned by a German firm, which makes the PR shoved out by Walker's office last year (cited in a link above) when he made a no-politics (wink-wink) trip to Germany.-----------------------------------------------------
Here is a link to a Department of Workforce Development data base about plant closings and layoffs meeting certain criteria which required them to be reported to the state.
And here is a second link with more than 100, facility-by-facility, location-by-location closings this year in Wisconsin today affecting more than 7,000 workers.
Consult this the next time you read a posting or story or Tweet from Scott Walker about what a success he's been.