Good eye! Man, that is just not right.

Does anybody else find this particular article followed by a help wanted ad for Johnson Controls as funny as I do?

I agree carlito, we need less people looking at how deep the hole is and more people looking for a way out of the pit.

Oh, Rick is up there, but he doesn't have the kahunas the size the AIG top exec's have.

Keep blaming Doyle he came in after one of the worst govenors we ever had, fat cat tommy. Blaming isn't going to get you anywhere with the hard hit this economy has taken and it isn't one thing or person or company, it is the country as a whole. Stop complaining and accept people are in a stink hole and hope we can pull out of it soon. the companies put themselves there and now it is what it is. To blame the hard working ones that did the grunt work is wrong. IMO. Look at the high paid desk jockeys that sat there and fattened there wallets and could care less about all the little guys doing the work to fatten it. As you can see where they are now without a job and a future of who the hell knows what.

CallitasIseeit, you may have noticed the entire world is in recession, with the auto industry hit particularly hard. You do imply you see things, that is, in order to call them.
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If this had anything to do with Wisconsin's tax structure the company would be moving its headquarters to another state. It isn't.

chad_vader- You mean greedy, fat cat slugs who really control our corporations? Such as Rick Wagoner.

You have to at least pay employees for earned vacation days. Considering it's only March, there's probably a whole lot of vacation days to pay.

Why give severence packages? Couldnt they do what Lear did to us and just start laying off people so that when they actually close the doors there is only a few people left.

Well, spark, I don't think the auto industry has put this economy in this funk, it just was one of the biggest reflections of what damage can be done without regulations on the greedy, fat cat slugs who really control our economy.

I read this several times and it doesn't say where the plants will close or which workers will be affected. It doesn't mention which Cities, States or Countries. Does Doyle have global influence over stuff like this?

I wouldn't worry too much about this: Barack Obama has promised us 4 million jobs.

You gotta love the auto industry. God help us.

With Doyle in charge this will be the norm. We are one of the most antibusiness states in the country. Big companies will get out while the getting is good.

We have enough large businesses leaving Wisconsin as it is. Why can't they close plants somewhere else????????

Localboy isn't that what GM in doing in Janesville??? Locking the door and walking away?

It cost almost as much to close a plant as it does to open one up. To close one, is the reverse of setting one up. Think about it. You just don't lock the door and walk away.

Of course it does. Severance packages for the employees who are let go, and the cost to decommission and tear down a plant are HUGE! And if any of the plants being closed were leased facilities, there's going to be costs to get out of the leases.

It COSTS money to cut jobs and close plants?!?!?!?