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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 2003
Page
35
Rural residents fear no return of jobs after Tecumseh engine plant ends production and moves to Brazil. The June 30 closure eliminates 535 local jobs amid a shuttered factory district once buoyed by poultry, textiles, and metal parts.
From 1991 to 1998 rural communities gained about 155000 factory jobs but declined sharply since 2000. Last year 45 percent of rural manufacturing jobs vanished in plant closures while overall rural employment fell 13.4 percent. Burkett, once at Intermetro, retrains at Okefenokee Tech while Douglas leaders seek new industry options.
Unemployed tech workers say specialized L1 visa staff undercuts wages and retraining prospects as Gartner forecasts U S job offshoring rising. Industry leaders like IBM and Intel defend using L1 workers to train abroad and avoid layoffs while advocates push for caps and stricter oversight.
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