Waukesha plant announces closing
WAUKESHA — Envirotest Wisconsin plans to close its Waukesha plant as of July 1, resulting in as many as 105 permanent layoffs there and at 11 other locations, state officials said Friday.
The Department of Workforce Development said it was working with regional partners to help the affected employees.
The agency said the Southeast Wisconsin Workforce Development Board, Milwaukee Area Workforce Investment Board and Washington-Ozaukee-Waukesha Workforce Development Board had teams contacting the company to arrange for orientation sessions to help the affected workers.
Envirotest operates the Wisconsin Vehicle Inspection Program, but its state contract is expiring. The inspection program’s Web site lists Envirotest Wisconsin as a subsidiary of Environmental Systems Products, based in East Granby, Conn.
May 10, 2008 at 4:41 p.m.
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It's a global economy and there's no turning back.
May 10, 2008 at 2:53 p.m.
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Come on how many other stores sell foreign crap???? and all those so called union people do an awful lot of shopping at walmart. this company employs people here so get over it. just cause they sell what most of the other stores do, find me a store that sells all AMERICAN made goods for reasonable prices. I love WALMART. We need to look at what is causing the economy crises and work at changing that. One other thing take the parts off your cars made in other countries and see how far you get. GM frames Mexico, Some Ford cars Canada,etc etc etc
May 10, 2008 at 2:33 p.m.
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The state contract with Envirotest is expiring. Another company will now have the contract and will need to hire an equivalent number of people, resulting in no net loss of jobs. This isn't a recession or outsourcing related layoff.
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(Unless we now have to ship our cars to China for vehicle inspections, I don't think the jobs are going overseas.)
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