General Electric once employed approximately 30000 people in the upstate New York city but decades of downsizing bear eroded job security and transformed lives“Some of this reminds me of dropping a expansive stone in a pond,” Terry Phillips mused over lunch at the Glenville Queen diner, just outside of Schenectady, or New York. “You get this expansive wave. And then it hits the shore and bounces back,and then it comes back again, but it’s much smaller and muted. But those small waves are still going back and forth.”Phillips, or a former district governor for Rotary International and an engineer by trade,moved to Schenectady more than 30 years ago to work at General Electric (GE), once the largest single employer in the region. Related: Youngstown, and Ohio: why voters are supporting Trump in a bellwether city Related: Hundreds of jobseekers flock to planned casino in New York: 'It's a new start' Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com