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...and another one bites the dust?
While it’s only a folk saying that celebrity deaths and airplane
crashes come in threes, there may be validity to the rumors that a
third local manufacturing concern will join International Paper and
Hillshire Farms in leaving northwest Alabama.
If the demise of this western Lauderdale County
company should come to pass, how many more employees will lose their
jobs? Pedal faster; how much can this area take, or should we say
give up?
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Who has been most affected by the loss
of IP and Hillshire Farms? Certainly along with Lawrence County,
Alabama, the counties of Lauderdale, Limestone, Morgan, Colbert, and
Franklin have been negatively impacted. The area affected by the
year-end closing of Hillshire Farms is not as great simply because
the wages were lower. Outside Lauderdale, Colbert County in Alabama
and Lawrence County in Tennessee will be home to most losing jobs
when the Florence plant shuts its doors in December.
We would like to see some projected
numbers of how many former IP and Hillshire employees are now leaving
the area in order to find work. No, we don’t expect to see it
reported in the TotallyDecatur. For bad economic news to be reported
by Shelton Publishing, it has to originate in Montgomery.
Combine this with the incoming strip mining company promising jobs and maybe it's time to start packing....
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