Bobcat announces layoffs

[OhioChick]

Monday, January 8, 2007

Bobcat Co. is planning to cut about 25 jobs at its machinery plant in Bismarck and up to 130 at its plant in Gwinner, in southeastern North Dakota, union officials said Sunday.

Officials at Bobcat's parent company, Ingersoll-Rand Co. Ltd., declined to give details of the layoffs, but said the cuts would come first from voluntary buyout packages to employees.

"They wouldn't give us an ironclad number," said Randall Edison, treasurer of United Steelworkers Local 560 in Gwinner.

"They gave us some numbers but they weren't sure," said Steve Chmielewski, president of the United Steelworkers Local 566 in Bismarck. "The worst-case scenario - what they told us - was 25, but that's been changing by the minute."

Union officials said they were told the layoffs would happen by early February.

http://www.bismarcktribune.com/articles/2007/01/08/news/topnews/126706.txt

[Qanisqineq]

1. I have family that works there

in Gwinner. Crap.

[MannyGoldstein]

2. Were The Jobs Outsourced? nt