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Article: Maytag moves raise worker fears; Chief executive says the firm has no plans to shut more plants in the United States
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- Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
- Article date:
- August 10, 2003
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DES MOINES - First, Maytag Corp. moved two parts plants to Mexico;
now, a refrigerator plant is headed there.
The relocations to Reynosa, Mexico, all announced in the last two
years, have intensified fears that Maytag might export even more jobs
to countries with cheap labor.
A company that grew from a small-town farm equipment manufacturer
to the third-largest appliance manufacturer in North America, Maytag
is drawing bitter criticism for moving jobs outside the United
States.
Chief executive Ralph Hake, who joined the Newton, Iowa-based
company in June 2001, is getting much of the blame.
"Maytag has always sold their name as the American classic," said
Sue Wilson, a former Maytag employee ...