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JOBS * USA - Factory Losses Severe for U.S. Workers
3.2 Million Jobs Gone Since 2000 - Many people believe those jobs will never come back...
Washington,DC,USA -Associated Press -20 April 2007: -- Three weeks ago, Dawn Zimmer became a statistic when she was laid off from her job assembling trucks at Freightliner's plant in Portland, Oregon... She and 800 of her colleagues joined a long line of U.S. manufacturing workers who have lost jobs in recent years. A total of 3.2 million - one in six factory jobs - have disappeared since the start of 2000... "They are building a multimillion-dollar plant in Mexico and they are going to build the Freightliners down there. They came in and videotaped us at work so they could train the Mexican workers," said Zimmer, 55, who had worked at Freightliner since 1994... That is the issue for American workers. Many of their jobs are moving overseas, to Mexico and China and elsewhere...
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