>>>Bill Martin, president of the Cumberland County Business Council, said his staff met with Black & Decker executives
>>>the week before they announced the closing.
>>>
>>>The meeting was one of many regular checks the Business Council makes with companies in the area. He said there
>>>was no indication that anything was wrong.
>>>
>>>“Within our organization, we were stunned,” Martin said. Afterward, he called plant managers to see what could be
>>>done to salvage jobs. The response: nothing.
>>>
>>>And where the jobs went to:
>>>
>>>http://www.bizjournals.com/baltimore/stories/2005/04/11/daily19.html
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>>Outsourcing to Mexico I can understand. Outsourcing to Tennessee is a bit harder to explain.
>
>Streamlining and consolidation....

IOW, they found some poor fools in Tennessee who will give them a tax-free welcome for a few decades, then they'll make kids to them too and move on, leaving yet another sterile plant with a huge parking. As my wife just said, the corporations are just another shape of snake oil sellers - they rip off, pollute and leave.