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Article: Maytag Job Exports Criticized in Iowa Community; Company's Home Town Ponders an Uncertain Future as More Workers Are Hired at Mexico Plant
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- The Washington Post
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- August 24, 2003
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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 past 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 who now works ...