Taste like $hit, but that's standard for the Glob these days:
"New Maryland ice cream factory flooded by job seekers; Laborers seek one of just a few dozen positions" by Michael S. Rosenwald | Washington Post, January 12, 2014
HAGERSTOWN, Md. — When the Good Humor ice cream plant closed here two summers ago, more than 400 jobs and a stable way of life melted away, another in a string of plant closings that have battered this once-proud manufacturing town.
The hulking plant sat vacant until a co-op of Virginia dairy farmers purchased it in summer 2013 to process milk and ice cream, though on a far smaller scale than the 60,000 cases of ice cream that global food company Unilever churned out every day.
Randy Inman, the board president for Shenandoah Family Farms, said he expected the plant’s revival to trigger plenty of interest in its three dozen or so initial jobs. What he did not expect: 1,600 applicants and counting — a deluge.
Many applicants are desperate former employees still without work in a county with 7.3 percent unemployment and in an economy where manufacturing job openings now require more specialized abilities than the lower-skilled positions that have gone overseas or, in the case of Unilever, to Tennessee and Missouri, where labor and operating costs are cheaper.
Wall Street is booming, there are bidding wars for houses again, but for blue-collar workers in places like Hagerstown the economic recovery has yet to materialize, and many around town worry that it will not.
That's because there never was one except at the top where they made out fabulously.
Laid-off workers are living week-to-week on unemployment.
Or not.
See: Congre$$ Pi$$es on Unemployed
Related: Effort to extend jobless benefits makes progress
Except it has hit a snag, and I've seen nothing since.
They are working temp jobs and trying to reeducate themselves. They are trying to save their houses from foreclosure.
This is useless, folks. Reporting on the latest swill and bile from the corporate establishment and its pos liberalism delivered via its mouthpiece is a waste of time. It seems contradictory, but it's an agenda-pu$hing piece of $tatu$ quo crap.
‘‘You’d think that after 20-some-years working someplace at least somebody would think you are a good person, that you’d show up on time every day, and that would be worth something,’’ said Luther Brooks, a 50-year-old single father of four who lost his $40,000-a-year pasteurization job at the ice cream plant. But has not been able to land a job.
Look at how they have this fine man thinking it is his fault, as if he is somehow deficient. What a geniu$ $y$tem for mind manipulation and propaganda the AmeriKan ma$$ media have constructed.
A handful of former workers have gotten lucky, returning to their old jobs as the plant begins production later this month. They will not earn as much as they did before, but they are not complaining.
The cowed Amurkn worker. What a disgrace America has become. Just keep your mouth shut and slave, slave away for the corporate ma$ter.
One rehired worker — and his boss — spoke on the condition of anonymity. He is being inundated with pleas for help landing jobs from former colleagues.
‘‘I’ve been hounded on Facebook,’’ said the 60-year-old mechanic who had been working in lawn care before he got hired back. He has told the job seekers, ‘‘Put in a resume; put in an application.’’
Not by me (must be union folk).
Brooks, whose unemployment benefits are about to run out, put in two.
‘‘I’d even take a hand-packing job just to start,’’ he said, meaning a job stuffing boxes with ice cream. ‘‘I didn’t even get a call.’’
Isn't that one of those jobs Amurkns won't do?
The country lost 6 million factory jobs between 2000 and 2009, and in Maryland, the job losses have been catastrophic….
We have been hollowed out, fellow Americans. It's over.
Btw, they were not lost. Lost implies something waiting for you to find. These jobs were taken out of the country deliberately for corporate profit. Just another subtle little word manipulation that is all too common in our $hitty little indoctrinated and inculcated in Zionist values $y$tem called society.
The staggering job losses have the attention — finally, some workers say — of Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley, a Democrat, who has revived the dormant Maryland Advisory Commission on Manufacturing Competitiveness. Later this month, the commission is scheduled to release recommendations on improving prospects for manufacturing jobs….
PFFFT!
Set up a useless commission to waste taxpayer dollars so they can flail their arms and say we are doing something, we are doing something, when they have enabled and abated the whole proce$$.
The challenge for elected officials, experts say, is preparing workers accustomed to the manufacturing of the past for what is needed now. New plants feature specialized machines that frequently use complex computer programs — ‘‘precision’’ manufacturing. Such factories require higher-skilled workers but fewer of them.
Are you tired of the excu$es?
That’s a difficult world for a former ice cream plant worker to enter.
‘‘Workers need to be a step above what their fathers and grandfathers were capable of doing,’’ Fuchs said. ‘‘The manufacturing employees of today need to be cross-skilled. They need to know how to do a lot. It’s not just monitoring a machine and pushing a button when you’re supposed to.’’
That's why immigration work visas are needed. Hope all that college debt was worth it, kids.
Maryland is investing more money to help workers. The state’s new $4.5 million industry-led job training and competitive workforce program, called EARN (Employment Advancement Right Now), recently announced 29 grants for job training programs.
For what? There are no jobs and will be no jobs, by de$ign!!
The grants are for a variety of industries, including biotechnology, cybersecurity, green jobs, health care, logistics, and manufacturing.
All agenda-pu$hing corporate industries that are either tied to tyranny or shedding jobs!
“There is no progress without a job,” O’Malley noted in making the announcement.
I say to the voters of Maryland: make him unemployed. What an a$$hole!
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And you wonder why I am here $creaming my lungs out every day?
