Aurora Alternative High School, The Phoenix, 2000, Page 49

Description:	General Electric’s Bloomington side-by-siderefrigerator plant is moving production ofsome higher priced models to a plant theyplan to build in Mexico, in a joint-venturepartnership with Mabe, a household appliance manufacturer and importer. Some ofGE’s competitors produce refrigerators inMexico right now, like Whirlpool, which paysan average of $22 an hour to its Americanemployees and only about $2 an hour to theirMexican employees. GE plans to split production of the 2001 federally mandated energyefficient side-by-side refrigerators betweenthe Bloomington plant and the one they planto build in Mexico. This will cause 1,400 employees to be laidoff out of the 3,200 currentlyworking at the Bloomington plant.GE is the largest manufacturer inBloomington. In this city of 65,000 people, onethird of them are either lU students or work forthe university, so the 3,200 jobs will have quitean impact. In Indiana, the number of manufacturingjobs grew 10% from 1991-1997, which isalmost 5 times the rate of the U.S. as a whole.These blue-collar jobs are expected to grow by8% over the next eight years, with only a 1 %increase nationally. Indiana is one of only fivestates where there are more manufacturingjobs than service jobs.AnnieMosora,HeatherAtwood, andCarrieFarnsworthpose inJanet’s room.Alisa FoxG.E. Cutting Jobs
Source:	http://cdm17129.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/hs-aurora/id/922
Collection:	Aurora Alternative High School

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