GM Moves Up Layoff Date For More Than 1,000 NJ Plant Workers

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General Motors Corp. will lay off most of the more than 1,000 workers at its assembly plant in Linden, N.J., early next year, months ahead of earlier plans to stop making two vehicles there, GM said.

Earlier, GM had planned to end production on the Chevrolet Blazer and GMC Jimmy next summer due to slowing sales of the two sport utility vehicles. The Linden plant has assembled the two vehicles since 1995.

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JDA Software Group Inc. of Scottsdale, Ariz., which makes retail-information software, will cut 167 jobs, or 13 percent of its work force. The planned cuts include 96 product-development workers, 50 consulting-service employees and 22 sales and marketing associates.



Armstrong Holdings Inc., whose products include vinyl and laminated flooring as well as building products and cabinets, will cut about 240 jobs, including 70 at its headquarters in Lancaster, Pa."

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[Anakin Skywalker]

1. So Remind Me Already!

Again! Why "the economy is strong" - Bush 3:16 ?

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

2. MSNBC removed all of their headlines like...

"The economy is surging forward like a rhino in heat...on CRACK!" that they had on the front page yesterday. Today, you'll find things like "November retail sales disappointing."

The people in this country who still work for a living, who put food on the table and clothes on their kids' backs, can tell you how the economy is doing. It is "strong" for some...primarily Bush's base of the "haves and have mores"...and hell on earth for the rest.

[DawnneOBTS]

3. Our Future

This is sad:
The second largest employer in this country, next to the government is Wal-Mart. This is where the jobs are being created. Nowhere else. We are all expected to work for minimum wage, live 50 to a house, wear rags, give most of our money for taxes, and like it. This is truly W's America. It is time for a revolution in this country. Like the Ukraine. Why do we have to accept this asshole as the president?

[Erika]

4. W's America, Hugo, Dickens, Zola

As long as the "peasants" accept their fate as hopeless, there won't be a revolution. Keep the "peasants" under-educated, under-fed, and without proper medical care, they'll be grateful for the few crumbs the wealthy elite pass out. This is what is happenning to our country.

The sickest part of it is that the elite will use our needy kids in their sick wars. I'm also very depressed and angry.