In Barrie a few years back, Tim Hortons was the largest with approx 500 PT employees
I do not subscribe to automated tellers,drive throug an cash out at Home Depot, not great jobs,b ut keep it up and we won't even need the 2 lone bank tellers anymore
And most people don't even see it,
I try my best to shop locally or at least Canadian, even cost me more for hot rod parts because of it, but if I pay more, maybe those people will call me to instal air one. And furnaces.
sorry to hear that jr. that whole area down that way has been getting a kick in the bag for some yrs now with the truck and car stuff either closing or moving also. thats too bad.
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Jihad Justin & Co. can't shut the province's manufacturing plants down fast enough to suit them. I know a few people that worked at Siemens,...and for dam sure they are going to be hurt badly by the plant closure. The young lad that just bought my '62 Biscayne works / worked there,..and he was also thinking seriously of selling his home and buying another place with a nice big shop on it. Shows how fast that a persons dreams can be dashed just overnight,..." literally " !!
Down this way, Proctor&Gamble are shutting down-600 loosing their jobs by 2020. It's getting bad when Walmart is the largest employer in the city.
to bad, that's a big hit for your area down there. i wonder if it has any connection to the big addition they put on down here, belleville, and/or if there will be openings here for some of them laid off with a little bit of luck.
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Down this way, Proctor&Gamble are shutting down-600 loosing their jobs by 2020. It's getting bad when Walmart is the largest employer in the city.
to bad, that's a big hit for your area down there. i wonder if it has any connection to the big addition they put on down here, belleville, and/or if there will be openings here for some of them laid off with a little bit of luck.
All of the work is moving to a new facility in West Virginia(which is not built yet), they are offering work to some in Belleville, have also offered interest free loans to others who want to start their own business. About 200 people are pensionable.
Makes you wonder where our Liberal sunshine boy is going to find work for the 100,000 refugees he just brought in.. The ones that are still unemployed and being supported by us.... He should be trying to keep Canadians jobs here.. not take on more debt, responsibility and people we can not afford to support at this time in our economy..
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I'm not sticking up for our Dickweed PM or anything But Siemans is one of the few organizations I've seen that can constantly build new facilities and businesses and close them in the same breath and still have record profits ; their stocks must be as impressive as banks and insurance co . My sympathies to all those losing their employment . It will be interesting to see what goes on with the McCormicks takeover of French's in Leamington after all the fall out in that area from Heinz especially after McCormicks has already dumped our regional once . And I agree with the concensus our premier and PM seem to be more interested in bankrupting the country/region so everyone in on the dole. If anyone did business the way these clowns do we'd all be in jail . Just my 2 cents worth .
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i was down that way to leamington awhile ago and really couldn't believe all the wind generator's that i could see from the 401 and i remember thinking that these were just the ones visible from the hi-way and how many more are there not visible. if that was any indication of how many and they ran all the way up to and onto georgian bay that's a lot of blades at 3 to 1 per post. maybe this might come into play on, " But Siemans is one of the few organizations I've seen that can constantly build new facilities". with that amount of possible #'s involved and situated in the middle of an area where their product is being extensively used, windsor to kitchener ? and from one lake to another that's a lot of money saved on shipping costs for oversized loads. i think that # would be a surprise. also the contract's for the hydro would of been made when they were paying big #'s for the kw's and possibly a partner in it. we are going to get screwed over on that for a lot of yrs to come. i am not sticking up for siemans in anyway but it definitely looks like a Wynne--win for them $ wise. we also probably gave them gov grants to get there from 3 different levels of gov to boot. did they build a new plant or refurbish an empty one? just curious. in today's world they can be set up with whatever manufacturing equipment they want from that plant on the other side of the world where there is another big pocket of demand sooner than we think. another shame is that old diesel plant in london closing and leaving the way they did. they should of been handed a bill for all the r and d money that was put into there over the years then have them move back to the usa with a lot of smarts that we payed for. at least when kellog's closed and moved to belleville their r & d money stayed here in the country. thats another story.
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I'm not sticking up for our Dickweed PM or anything But Siemans is one of the few organizations I've seen that can constantly build new facilities and businesses and close them in the same breath and still have record profits ; their stocks must be as impressive as banks and insurance co . My sympathies to all those losing their employment . It will be interesting to see what goes on with the McCormicks takeover of French's in Leamington after all the fall out in that area from Heinz especially after McCormicks has already dumped our regional once . And I agree with the concensus our premier and PM seem to be more interested in bankrupting the country/region so everyone in on the dole. If anyone did business the way these clowns do we'd all be in jail . Just my 2 cents worth . Larry( Grumpy50)
i would think that french's taking over the hole that was left behind when heinz closed up is a hell of a marketing ploy myself and win-win for them just in p.r. and especially after all the negative hoop-la in the news about it and them, heinz, moving production out of the country. that old plant was a big deal in that area for a lot of years in it's hay day and helped put the leamington area on the map for something other than just having the earliest canadian produce every year. a lot of people don't/didn't realize that some of that area is on a horizontal line with northern california and makes for an earlier growing season.
curious, did french's take over the old plant or start anew? anything that they left behind would of been as old as methuselah and obsolete today and you don't see many multi-floor production plants today also with all the modern equipment.
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that's another one that should of been handed the bill for all the r and d money they got over the yrs when they left the country. it's big bucks they get in the form of a tax break especially in food production. i learned about this r and d stuff from an old friend of mine who was a partner in a fair sized meat plant in montreal making deli products. they were getting anywhere from 5 to 600,000.00 most years as a tax break for researching so called different production and packaging methods. he told me most companies that are manufacturing anything are at the trough. rip paul
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Sears Canada screws 2900 employes out of severance and there pension fund is in jeopardy . Court approves 7.8 mil for 43 executives retention bonuses . the same people that ran the place into the ground.
The same thing happened under the PCs with the US steel takeover but they were smart enough to seal the court documents . By the way when the libs took over they too refused to unseal them ..
Sears Canada screws 2900 employes out of severance and there pension fund is in jeopardy . Court approves 7.8 mil for 43 executives retention bonuses . the same people that ran the place into the ground.
The same thing happened under the PCs with the US steel takeover but they were smart enough to seal the court documents . By the way when the libs took over they too refused to unseal them ..
Sears Canada screws 2900 employes out of severance and there pension fund is in jeopardy . Court approves 7.8 mil for 43 executives retention bonuses . the same people that ran the place into the ground.
The same thing happened under the PCs with the US steel takeover but they were smart enough to seal the court documents . By the way when the libs took over they too refused to unseal them ..
Massey Ferg,. Westinghouse, Goodyear.....
Boils down to this GREED
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Sears Canada screws 2900 employes out of severance and there pension fund is in jeopardy . Court approves 7.8 mil for 43 executives retention bonuses . the same people that ran the place into the ground.
The same thing happened under the PCs with the US steel takeover but they were smart enough to seal the court documents . By the way when the libs took over they too refused to unseal them ..
If we had Governments that cared about Canada , maybe they should step up and freeze the assets of some of these companies as they close and put them back out to CANADIAN corporations , with acceptable LOANS ( NOT grants ) to produce goods that we now have to import -- Example -- How many school buses do we now import ?? ( Thousands ) Could have re-instated Blue bird in Brantford !! -- How about Kellogs in London -- How much cereal does Bernardo and his ( thousands ) cronies eat ?? How much cereal does our Military eat ? Build our military ships ( now underway in Halifax ) with Canadian steel (absolutely no substitutes without explanation ) . That's just the tip of the iceburg--- The list could get very lengthy . That's my rant for now !! I am SSSOOOOO Canadian , that I just go crazy watching our Governments just give our Country away !! -- Oh Well , all is not lost ( I guess ) -- At least were bilingual --- LATER -- FLEET 51
