"Gillette to cut 215 jobs in S. Boston; Devens plant will be closed; work going to Poland, Mexico" by Angel Jennings, Globe Correspondent | August 7, 2008
Procter & Gamble Co. yesterday unveiled plans to shutter its plant at Fort Devens and shed 215 jobs from Gillette's South Boston headquarters, the first major swipe at the world shaving facility.
This after they just announced "fourth-quarter profit that rose more than analysts estimated."
The cuts are the latest move by the Cincinnati company to trim jobs in Massachusetts since it acquired Gillette in 2005, one of a series of major takeovers of local firms by out-of-state corporations. But P&G, which plans to shift some Massachusetts operations to Poland and Mexico, said it will continue to invest in South Boston.
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The Devens factory employs about 400 contractors who package razors, shaving cream, and other goods. Most of the operations are being moved to Mexico and Poland. The Devens work will be transferred to Mexico.
"Though this move might temporarily result in job losses, it shows the company is making a real investment in the city of Boston and in Massachusetts," said Mayor Thomas M. Menino.
Mayor, WTF are you smoking? Share, will ya?
Still, the most recent cuts are a blow to Gillette's Massachusetts workforce, particularly at Devens, where a group had fought to keep the plant open after P&G closed its other plant there and laid off 100 workers in May 2006.
Merrimack Valley Project, a Lawrence coalition of church and labor organizations that had criticized the two facilities on the former military base for alleged labor violations, saying the company employed migrant workers at low wages, released a report after the first plant closed to outline the negative economic impact if the company shut down the second plant. At the time, P&G said it had not decided what to do with the second plant.
WTF is WITH THIS STATE?!?
First Romney's Roofers, and now this!!!! P & G must stand for PUMP and GRIND for the reaming they are giving to the AmeriKan people.
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