He thinks Ford will ultimately benefit in Europe when other competitors are forced to close plants.
When something goes wrong, managers simply intone: It would be un-Japanese to fire anyone or to close plants.
Later that year Intel would close plants, get out of the DRAM business and lay off thousands of employees.
Strong labor unions and government pressure has made it increasingly difficult for automakers to cut jobs or close plants in the region.
The auto makers are stuck with the inability to cut workers and close plants in the near term due to a variety of governmental and worker regulations in different countries.
While the rest of the company works to shave another 5% off the costs of supplies and wrestles with the union to close plants here and there and give up some health care benefits, Burns could cut GM's Gordian knot with the simplest element in the universe.
Close Michigan plants and supply dealers with Nissans made in Tennessee but badged as Chevys?
Ford will close three plants and cut up to 6, 200 jobs in Europe by 2014.
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Bayer says it will close 15 plants in its troubled polymers division.
At least 26, 000 jobs will go in a reorganisation that will close six plants and trim production at seven more.
In the last contract they foolishly promised not to close any plants.
Workers at a Coventry factory have joined the first of two 24-hour strikes over government plans to close some plants and sell off others.
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Ford last week announced it would close two plants in the UK and one in Belgium following a sharp fall in sales in the region.
Earlier in the week, Corus warned that it was set to close more plants in the UK, with the loss of up to 3, 000 jobs.
Ms. MAYNARD: The eventual cost savings comes at the end of the contract, when they are able to close these plants permanently and take these workers off their payrolls.
Producers do not want to take such steps until they are sure weak prices will persist for a lengthy period of time, since it is expensive to close down plants.
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General Motors unveiled a restructuring plan for its North American operations that will close nine plants and three related facilities with the loss of 30, 000 jobs (of which 25, 000 had already been announced in June).
In its plea for bail-out funds last month, the company promised to shed up to 31, 000 jobs, close nine plants and renegotiate a four-year labour contract which it signed with the United Auto Workers (UAW) in 2007.
The company said it would cut 10 percent of its staff and close five manufacturing plants.
The post-Fukushima kneejerk decision to close all nuclear plants by 2022 rather than 2036 has wreaked havoc in Europe ever since.
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Once the plants close, unless there's another job inside Ford, the salaried employees essentially just either can retire or they lose their jobs completely.
You can't have a car-manufacturing sector without sub-contractors, for example, and once the big plants close the volumes don't make economic sense any more.
You've seen plants close and businesses shut down.
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Already, operators of 26, 000 megawatts have announced that their plants will close rather than comply with the EPA regulations.
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"If you went back 10 years ago when we had close to 20 assembly plants, a lot of them were running on one or two shifts, " he said.
Following the March 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster, Chancellor Angela Merkel announced in May 2011 that eight of the country's 17 nuclear reactors would be shut down immediately and the remaining plants would close by 2022.
If a merger were to occur, up to half of Chrysler's 14 assembly plants would close, resulting in 24, 000 hourly and administrative job cuts, Grant Thornton says. (About 5, 000 cuts have already been announced.) In all, the company says 30, 000 to 40, 000 of Chrysler's 67, 000 existing jobs would be eliminated.
What's the reaction to that, that these plants will actually close right before Christmas?
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