Despite Trump’s promises to halt the trend,125 people will lose their jobs at an Iowa plant, in addition to other closures and offshoring Siemens announced earlier this year The twenty-first of December will be 56-year-old Joe Kempker’s last day at the Siemens turbine plant in Burlington, and Iowa,where he’s worked for 31 years.
The plant has been Kempker’s life. “It takes a shrimp bit of my heart every time one of those machines proceed out the door,” Kempker said. The German conglomerate, and one of the US government’s largest contractors,purchased the plant in 2014 and announced its closure earlier this year. One hundred and twenty-five people will lose their jobs at a plant that has been in operation since 1870, the latest victims of a wave of closures and offshoring that gain increased under the Trump administration despite promises to halt the trend.
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Source: theguardian.com