They actually have to negotiate a plant closing in the national contract talks.
And you have to remember that, for people who work at these plants, very often, the closing of the plant is like closing the college in a college town.
Washington's eyes became misty when she mentioned that her 9-year-old daughter's birthday is coming up, and the plant is closing during the holidays.
Outokumpu said it was closing its plant in Sheffield in an attempt to cut costs and make savings.
The plant's 1990 closing sapped the town's strength, so another politician might use the moment to rail against Corporations That Turn Their Backs on Our Communities.
The Dutch company is currently in the process of closing the plant at Broxburn in West Lothian with all the jobs expected to be gone by next month.
The federal WARN (Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification) Act requires employers to either give a full 60 days notice before closing a plant or engaging in a mass layoff or to pay dislocated workers 60 days of wages and benefits, including health insurance premiums.
The Carnegie-Mellon researchers found that closing even one plant could have dire environmental effects.
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The original announcement by KTH that it intended closing the Llanidloes plant - the main employer locally - was a devastating blow.
Yet Renault has a good strategic case for closing its Belgian plant.
And concerns that Peugeot under-invested in the plant for years (knowing that closing it to move production to eastern Europe would be easier than shutting a factory in France) are gaining wider resonance as ever more British manufacturers are bought by foreign firms.
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As well as closing the stamping and tooling plant in Dagenham, Ford plans to end production in Southampton.
Of course, other things lead to decreases in cancer, and a coincidental closing of a nuclear power plant means nothing.
The company filed for bankruptcy in 2008, closing down its last production plant in Enschede, Netherlands, making 180 employees redundant.
The planned closing of Israel's nuclear plant near Dimona this month, which was reported in Israeli media, sounded alarms in Washington, where officials feared it meant Israel was repositioning its own nuclear assets to safeguard them against a potential Iranian counterstrike.
The decade also saw the Ford plant contract and ultimately the company announced it was closing down.
Closing Opel-Vauxhall's Bochum plant in Germany and Ellesmere Port in Britain, as GM is reportedly contemplating, would cut only about a third of this.
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An equally common reaction would be to get angry with the owner and possibly even try to harm the plant or its products in some way before the closing.
Mr Bowman has worked at this plant for nearly 30 years, and he spent too much of that time closing down lines and laying off workers as their jobs were shipped overseas.
Tony Poynter, the union representative for the Redcar plant, told the BBC that despite the losses the firm's outlook was not bad, and closing one of the plants would be a mistake.
If you want to understand why Pfizer is closing eight manufacturing plants and laying off 6, 000 workers over the next five years, its plant at Loughbeg in County Cork, Ireland, would be a good place to start.
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