Dell Must Reveal Layoff Numbers or Risk Losing Incentive Money

[OhioChick]

Source: myfox8.com

May 11, 2009

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (WGHP) - Dell must release its 2009 layoff numbers for its Forsyth County plant or it could risk losing millions of dollars in incentives.

The company was awarded millions of dollars in incentives by the county and the city of Winston-Salem if the company employed 1,700 people with an average wage of $28,000 by September of 2010.

Dell announced the layoffs earlier this year but refused to release the exact number of employees affected.

Dell is receiving $37 million in local incentives and says it will make a report to the council Monday.

Winston-Salem Mayor Allen Joines called the meeting after Dell cut the jobs but didn't say how many people were involved.



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[Eric J in MN]

1. It's cool that the city attached real strings regarding maintaining jobs.

Usually, cities just subsidize corporate offices on the theory that it means jobs, and then the corporations lay people off and outsource once they've gotten what they wanted.

[HopeHoops]

2. Dell has employees in the U.S.????

How come you can never get anyone on the phone who is in the U.S.?

My calls to HP, in sharp contrast, have always been answered by someone who speaks English AND knows the product (instead of using those stupid "decision tree" questions that take 45 minutes to get around to the conclusion "THE FUCKER IS DEAD").

[Hubert Flottz]

4. I feel your pain...

I never thought that Dell had any employees in the US either...Typing this on the last Dell POS I'll ever own.

[imdjh]

5. I was an Epson person for years- but HP won me over, like you said. Sharp phone service.

[HopeHoops]

7. My mom is getting my eldest a new laptop for graduation.

She's had an HP for two years and it has been wonderful, but faster, more memory, larger hard drive, and longer-lasting battery are all good things for starting college. She wants the same thing in an updated model. That's what we are going to get.

[mwooldri]

6. This was a manufacturing plant, not phone support.

And yep, there's a reason why the phrase "Dude, you're going to Hell" applies to the Dell company.

[HopeHoops]

8. Dell MAKES something in the US???

Other than refilling inkjet cartridges, WTF does Dell DO that's US based?

[mwooldri]

10. Assembling the computers....

parts come in, mainly from Asia, and when orders are placed the people at the plant put together the components to make your computer. Then box it and ship it to you. That's what they do at the NC plant.

Whether you can say you "made" the computer is one thing... I can go to a computer parts store and buy a case, a motherboard, processor, memory, graphics card, hard drive, dvd re-writer, slap it all together and I can say I made a computer. Have I really made it?

Mark.

[HopeHoops]

11. Sounds like a Toyota

They ship in the engine, transmission, and most of the other main parts and people here duct tape or hot glue them together - that is what the robots don't handle. Not really US made in my book.

[ihavenobias]

3. K & R, now these are *good* strings attached. n/t

[happygoluckytoyou]

9. CEO son-in-law $47 million.... remaining 1699 workers $353 each... average $28000