UPS to Close Hub in 2006, Laying Off 1,400 (Dayton Ohio)

[cthrumatrix]

UPS to Close Hub in 2006, Laying Off 1,400

43 minutes ago Business - AP


By JAMES HANNAH, Associated Press Writer

DAYTON, Ohio - UPS Inc. will close its recently-acquired freight sorting hub in Dayton in 2006, eliminating 1,400 jobs, the world's largest shipping carrier announced Thursday.


The facility is its only sorting hub for heavy airline freight. A new hub for handling cargo weighing more than 150 pounds will be built at another UPS facility in an effort to improve efficiency, said Norman Black, spokesman for the Atlanta-based UPS.

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A small number of workers may be offered jobs at other UPS locations, with the remaining employees given severance pay and job counseling, Black said. "This was a very difficult decision," he said.

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=&e=9&u=/ap/20050224/ap_on_bi_ge/ups_hub_closing


Bush delivers on his "Ohio jobs promise". My condolences to those affected in this corporate "lay-off".

[sasquatch]

1. Blackwell is spending an eternity as a field slave in hell for what he did

I wonder how many of those "little blues" he gets from Rush he has to take in order to sleep at night.

[VegasWolf]

There is no HELL and this clown is living the good life off of

the fools in Ohio.

[Dying Eagle]

2. Take that Red Ohio

Maybe they will learn by the time the next election comes around!!

[gatlingforme]

7. ain't that the truth

[sasquatch]

9. You mean when we wait in 10 hour lines again to vote

:eyes:

[countryjake]

10. Montgomery County voted for Kerry...

if it went according to tradition; I don't know, maybe it could have changed but I doubt it.

Rather hear things like, "More punishment for workers of Ohio". That area around Dayton has been hurting badly for decades, due to pullout of manufacturing & union smashing. I assure you, they have KNOWN for a long, long time! Where's the empathy here?

[bluestateguy]

3. UPS to Close Hub in 2006, Laying Off 1,400

Of course. Announce layoffs in Ohio after the election. My sympathyies go out to all the Kerry voters in this group.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=&e=9&u=/ap/20050224/ap_on_bi_ge/ups_hub_closing

DAYTON, Ohio - UPS Inc., the world's largest shipping carrier, said Thursday it plans to close its recently acquired freight sorting hub in Dayton in 2006, eliminating 1,400 jobs, in a move the company said would make its overall operations more efficient.

The facility is the company's only sorting hub for heavy airline freight. A new hub for handling cargo weighing more than 150 pounds will be built at another UPS facility in an effort to improve efficiency, said Norman Black, spokesman for Atlanta-based UPS.

UPS has operated the hub at Dayton International Airport since Dec. 20, when the company bought it from Menlo Worldwide Forwarding for $150 million. It also assumed $110 million in debt in that deal

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[KamaAina]

4. Wow! Look at that Bush** job machine go!

Go, jobs, go!

Seriously: Why did UPS buy this facility if it didn't want to serve it with its planes? What a bunch of :dunce: s.

[cthrumatrix]

5. they are spreading the work to other facilities

[KamaAina]

12. Cold comfort to the hundreds in Dayton

who must now uproot themselves (if they even get offers!) or submit to "career counseling" where they are fitted for Wal-Mart overalls and/or trained to say "Would you like fries with that?"

edit: "fited" to be tied!

[countryjake]

6. I wonder how long Menlo had been there?

Are these lay-offs of people hired last December or were they former employees of the Menlo company?

Just what that depressed area doesn't need!

[DemoTex]

8. Dayton is way too close to UPS's big sort hub in Louisville.

My guess is that UPS bought the Dayton hub from Menlo to keep the competition out.

[maxsolomon]

11. Dayton's OK, its Cincy that's GOP country

born & raised & escaped 12 years ago.

[JI7]

13. these people voted for Kerry

[llmart]

14. My sympathies.....

to the Kerry voters losing their jobs.

To the Bush voters:

Quit your whining and pull yourselves up by your bootstraps you lazy Repugs! And don't think the guvvmint is gonna' help you out either.

[Anakin Skywalker]

15. But You All are Missing the Important Thing!

Gays are kept from marriage so everything's dandy, OK?! There!

[saltpoint]

16. 'Did a lot of growin' up in Dayton & am sorry the families --

-- of these workers now face tough decisions.

Wasn't Montgomery County, including Dayton, the only blue county in SW Ohio in 04?

I hope my good friends Rick and Chuck and their families hang in there back in ol' Dayton.

[Zerex71]

17. Look at that Bu$h job machine go!

I hope they're all Bush voters, but sadly, you know they're not...