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PROTEST * USA - Freightliner workers wear sombreros to protest U.S. layoffs, Mexican expansion
Gastonia,NC,USA -The Gaston Gazette, by Corey Friedman -March 13, 2009: -- It was a different kind of Mexican standoff... Roughly 75 of the 240 workers being laid off from the Freightliner components and logistics plant Friday showed up for their final day of work wearing sombreros - a symbolic protest against the truckmaker's decision to open a new $300 million plant in Mexico while layoffs cripple the company's American work force... Freightliner laid off about 500 workers at its Mount Holly plant and about 600 at its plant in Rowan County Friday, said Scott McAllister, president of United Auto Workers Local 5286. Another 80 will lose their jobs at the Gastonia plant on May 8... (Photo by Benjamin Patton/The Gazette - Jerry Womble and Robert Mullinax talk about working at Freightliner while wearing sombreros in protest of Freighliner layoffs and the relocation of work to Mexico)Labels: strikes and protests
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