Business
Talgo announces layoffs at Milwaukee facility
Apr 4th
The company was supposed to create more than 100 jobs in Milwaukee, but now, Talgo train manufacturer has announced it will be laying off dozens of employees. Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett is blaming Governor Scott Walker and Republican lawmakers for the layoffs.
Whether Gary Pavloski and others will have a job at Talgo going forward was uncertain Wednesday morning, April 4th, after the Spanish trainmaker sent a letter to its union notifying it will begin layoffs of 35 employees at its facility in the city’s north side as early as this summer. “I’ve worked at this plant for 30 years. I worked for A.O. Smith and Teller Automotive. It’s unfortunate, that so many people in the inner city need jobs,” Pavloski said.
President Obama speaks at Master Lock
Feb 15th
President Barack Obama is using the resurgence of U.S. manufacturing to make an economic case for his re-election, touring factory floors and promoting a made-in-America message that seemed to fit his political campaign like, as it turned out Wednesday, lock and key.
Most presidents like to surround themselves with proud workers at factories, but Obama has gone further by making the rebounding manufacturing a key plank of his election-year agenda, arguing that the increasingly service-oriented U.S. economy needs to make things in order to prosper in the long run. He opened a three-day political trip with a stop in Wisconsin, a state he won handily in 2008 but is expected to pose more difficulty for him this year.
