The Congress member, Ro Khanna, is alarmed on mass layoffs in the American economy resulting from the failed economic policies of President Donald Trump. More than 4,000 factory workers have lost their jobs this week due to layoffs or factories.
Thursday, the automaker Stellantis, citing conditions created by Trump prices, announced temporary layoffs for 900 workers, represented by the United Auto Workers (UAW). “Affected American employees,” reportedCnn“Works in five different Midwest plants: Warren and Sterling stamp factories in Michigan, as well as the Indiana transmission plant, the Kokomo transmission plant and the Kokomo molding plant, all in Kokomo, Indiana.”
In a wire on social networks on Saturday evening, the representative Ro Khanna (D -Calif.) – A legislator who advocated aloud, including in books and in the congress, for an industrialization policy that would bring manufacturing jobs to the United States – posed a litany of other dismissals announced recently in the way in which American workers and chaos were raised.
“This week”, wrote Khann, “19 factories had mass layoffs, 15 closed and 4,134 factories across America lost their jobs. Cleveland fliffps dismissed 1,200 workers in Michigan and Minnesota because they deal with the impact of Trump prices on steel and automobile imports.”
“We need jobs and currently, at present, the majority of the companies with which we work and represent our members not to hire.” —Mark Depaoli, Uaw
For union leaders representing these Cleveland-Cliffs workers, they said that “chaos” was the word operating. “Chaos. You know? A lot of questions. You have a lot of people who have worked there for a long time who are potentially losing their job,” said Bill Wilhelm, service representative and editor of the local UAW 600, told Local ABC News Affiliate Wxyz-Channel 7.
UNITED car workers claim that the dismissal fund reserved for those who lose their jobs will not last long and find new jobs of this quality will not be easy. “Our first concern will be to look around all the companies where we have members and to see if we can find jobs,” said the 1st local vice-president, Mark Depaoli. “I mean, jobs will be the key. We need jobs and currently, for the moment, the majority of the companies we work and represent our members not to hire.”
The pain of workers in Dearborn families, as the Khanna thread indicates, is only the tip of the iceberg. In Post after post, he cataloged a flow of new layoffs with an impact on workers nationwide and in various sectors:
- The lost poultry distributor Farms dismissed 433 workers this week in Monterey, Tennessee.
- As part of mass layoffs to US branches, tractors manufacturer John Deere dismissed 9 workers from his Ankeny, Iowa installations. The company also expressed its concerns about the impact of Trump’s prices on production.
- The interconnection of the summit of the semiconductor manufacturer closed in Santa Ana, California, costing 74 people. Congress must invest in manufacturing to guide the United States in the main manufacture of semiconductors.
- The manufacturer of automotive and industrial supply transmission Bando USA Inc. reduced 65 jobs for their installation in Bowling Green, Kentucky.
- Coal manufacturer Wilson Creek Energy LLC reduced 332 jobs after closing their factory in Friedens, Pennsylvania. 93 other workers were cut when the Grantsville factory Maryland closed.
- In Sumner, the Washington pipe manufacturer Advanced Drainage Systems has closed, costing 54 employees their jobs.
- The manufacturer of electrical equipment Sensata Technologies closed its doors in Carpinteria, California, made 57 employees lose their jobs. The company closes to compensate for the increase in inflation costs.
- In San Jose, California, the manufacturer of electronics Inrensensense Inc. dismissed 55 people due to new market conditions in the enlargement of the technological industry.
- The manufacturer of battery quantumscape Battery Inc. dismissed 53 workers in San Jose, California, as part of a restructuring effort.
- The manufacturer of biosense medical devices Webster Inc. cut 9 jobs when he constantly closed his installation of Los Gatos, California.
- The biotechnology manufacturer Immunitybio, Inc. dismissed 9 employees of his establishment in El Segundo, California, and his installations in Culver City, California.
- The Del Monte Foods culinary robot, Inc. in Hannaford, California, cut 378.
- In Agawam, Massachusetts, wholesale of Bakery Connecticut Pie, LLC DBA Diana’s Bakery dismissed 229 workers.
- The poultry plant Alatrade Foods has dismissed 165 employees in its establishment in Phenix City, in Alabama.
- The manufacturer of food products, Rich Products Corporation, dismissed 139 workers after having closed his installations of Santa Fe Springs in California to compensate for the increase in costs.
- In Townson, Maryland, the manufacturer of sports clothing Fila USA, Inc. dismissed 112 workers. The company also dismissed 18 employees of their establishment in Curtis Bay, Maryland.
- Engineering Services Company, S&B Engineers and Constructors, Ltd. In Kingsport, Tennessee, cut 112 workers.
- In Bridgeview, Illinois, 88 workers lost their jobs when the Smurfit Westrock sustainable packaging company closed its doors.
- The manufacturers of Syzygy Plasmonics chemicals, led to layoffs in two Houston, Texas installations, by reducing 68 jobs in total.
- The manufacturer of pre -closed packaging products in San Antonio, California. Forty-five people have lost their jobs.
- In Longview, Texas, the engineers and manufacturers of the construction supplies manufacturer reduced 43 jobs.
- Board manufacturer, EDARON, LLC closed its doors to South Hadley, Massachusetts, cutting 24 jobs.
- In Holliston, Massachusetts, the cannabis manufacturer Pharma Cann dismissed 19 workers.
- Ease of medical management, MSO bonus, LLC closed its doors to Encino, California, costing their jobs to 6 people.
Workers in the public sector being dismissed in massive number on the national level due to the blitzkrieg unleashed by the Ministry of Elon Musk, or DOGE,, or DOGE, private sector workers are not foreign to mass layoffs in an American economy dominated by business interests and union density still to historical places.
The Léopold, executive director of the Labor Institute who has rang the alarm for years on the devastation associated with mass layoffs, recently wrote on the way in which the situation is even worse than he has already understood. In addition to the greed of existing companies and the phenomena of acquiring shares that stimulate many mass licensees in the private sector, Trump mismanagement on prices and commercial policy is almost sure to worsen things, triggering more loss of jobs in addition to higher costs on consumer goods.
In order to fight Trump, Leopold wrote last month, “Democrats should take a Trump page and put employment protection in addition to their program. While prices bite and cause job destruction, Democrats should present themselves and support these relaxed workers.”
Instead of simply calling Trump’s prices “crazy”, which many have just so so, the Democrats “should call them Work killers“Consulté Leopold”. As prices are increasing, they can also blame Trump for this. “”
Trump’s economic policies coming entirely, the image is dark for large and small companies – which means more pain for workers.
As Axios“Ben Berkowitz reported on Saturday. “When everything becomes more expensive everywhere because of the prices, it also starts a cycle for companies-which could end with layoffs, bankruptcies and higher prices for survivors’ customers,” he said. “The cycle is just beginning now, but the pain is immediate.”
The “big image”, continued Berkowitz, is as follows:
The stock market is not the economy, but if you want a decent proxy for companies on the main street, look at the Russell 2000, a large measure of small businesses on the stock market in all industries.
– It is down almost 20% this year only.
– It does not make itself a business turning off the lights, but that said something about the public’s confidence in their prospects.
– “The market is like a real -time survey … It will have an impact on all companies in one way or another without a doubt,” Mahoney Asset Management on Friday.
In Sunday comments at Common dreamsLeopold wanted to know where Khanna and other Democrats were last year when John Deere was dismissed a thousand workers.
“What have progressive democrats have to say about the tens of thousands of mass layoffs that take place every month? The radio silence,” he said. “It would be useful if they had a policy that was addressed to mass layoffs induced by Wall Street rather than simply opposing the prices, but I would not bet on it.”
On the question of silence and which, ultimately, will defend American workers – whether in the public or private sector – it is not clear that will emerge as a real defender or what forces would galvanize to really represent the interests of the working class of the nation.
“Imagine if the unions of federal workers and the officials of the Democratic party presented themselves at the door of the factory of a company that was about to close its doors to finance bought stocks for its billionaire owners,” Leopold wrote in early March. “A demonstration of support for their colleagues victims of dismissal and a message of unit aimed at stopping the destruction of billionaire employment would be simple to make and easy to share. This would be news.”
“Why don’t Democrats do that?” He asked.
