Freightliner strike ends

A strike by workers at a Freightliner plant in North Carolina has ended.

According to the Charlotte Observer, an unsanctioned strike at Freightliner’s Rowan County plant came to a halt after union leaders from the international union began negotiating with the company about work conditions and pay.

A union leader told the Observer the walkout was prompted by concerns about plant safety – not wage issues.

However, in December 2006, Freightliner announced it would cut 1,200 of the plant’s 4,000 jobs because of slumping sales. The company also announced it is opening a plant in Mexico that will employ up to 1,600 people.

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Quality in Freightliners will continue to go down hill, if the plant goes to Mexico. I have hauled trucks out of the North Carolina plant. Some of them trucks were junk anyway.

No more Freightliners from Portland, OR, plant

About 750 workers who built Freightliner trucks at a plant in Portland, OR, are now unemployed.

The last Freightliner rolled off the assembly line on Thursday, March 28, and the company claims a slump in sales led to the layoffs, according to media reports.

Company officials said in a press release that the company will continue to manufacture its Western Star trucks in Portland, but Freightliner production is moving to plants in North Carolina and Mexico.

The company said the 740-acre Mexico plant could employ as many as 1,600 workers.

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