A South Carolina plant that assembles televisions using Chinese parts plans to shut down and lay off nearly all its employees because of new tariffs imposed by the Trump Administration, the company announced this week.
Element Electronics — which describes itself as the only assembler of televisions in the U.S. — plans to lay off 126 of its 134 permanent full-time employees and close the Winnsboro, S.C. plant on Oct. 5. Notably, there are still at least two smaller companies that continue to assemble speciality televisions in the U.S.
“The layoff and closure is a result of the new tariffs that were recently and unexpectedly imposed on many goods imported from China, including the key television components used in our assembly operations in Winnsboro,” Carl Kennedy, Element’s vice president of human resources, said in a letter to the South Carolina Department of Employment and Workforce on Monday.
What could they have possibly done to avoid this I wonder.
Austin Martin
that's true, but the factory isn't going anywhere. nationalize the industries.
Samuel Myers
No, they are shutting down because assembly line jobs are not viable in first world countries when yellow children are ready to do it faster for a bowl of rice per week.
meanwhile companies are investing trillions in new plants and new manufacturing and a fuck ton of jobs ….
element is struggling because they make shit TV's with cheap inferior Chinese parts
Jordan Walker
sane people expected to watch you grasp for straws and try to make it seem like your opinions had some semblance of logic and reasoning…….
Fucking idiots
You're the only people who are actually more stupid than trump
Dylan Price
…says the genius…
who doesn't realize that makeshift is ONE word
Andrew Collins
These faggots make it sound like they produce everything in the US and not the reality that they purchase all their shit from China and just assemble it using low wage, low skill niggers.
Adrian Price
this is the state of education (when it comes to trump supporters) hey idiot, the assembly line jobs were in the south carolina plant. It's the parts that were purchased from china. IT'S RIGHT THERE IN THE FIRST FEW WORDS OF THE ARTICLE YOU COLOSSAL IDIOT!
thanks, trump. so at least americans could have jobs assembling stuff, but because the raw materials/parts are too expensive now, even those jobs are disappearing.
Anthony Gutierrez
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Christian Moore
first few words, idiot…
Cooper Thomas
jobs aren't disappearing, employers are disappearing. there's still work to be done. factories aren't going anywhere, raw materials aren't going anywhere, and people aren't going anywhere either. the simple solution is the nationalization of industry. what are foreign companies gonna do when you nationalize "their" factories?
how 'coincidental' that you'd see this word in another thread, then be compelled to use the same word in this thread, but even after just seeing the word, you still thought it was two words.
my sinuses are all clogged up normally, I just blow my nose directly into the palm of my hand, because I feel tissue paper ruins the tactile nature of the experience.
but for some reason, I can't manage to get this dried bubblegum snot to eject out of my nose……………
You do that, and simultaneously I'll imagine being your age at the prime of my life and unable to get a girl to climb into bed with me because of the gay video games & anime
Christopher Reed
and if you're going to try and pretend you don't play sissy-ass video games and watch faggot anime, then it would clearly demonstrate that you're completely fucking full of shit!!
Do you know what the definition of ad hominem abusive is? Dis 2+2=4 aight? No good sir, I can assure you that 2+2=5 Guess which one is wrong?
Aaron Torres
Exactly what I meant (you massive retard). If the exact same job can be done for much less somewhere else, that is where the money goes, and should go. You really have to be (your) level of idiot to pay twice as much to have subpar products stamped "Made in McUSA".
Oliver Ward
well, there's the problem. also
Zachary Hall
Putting the last screw in a chinese made TV and calling it US made I bet?
Jose Martinez
Goodbye 1 more electric Jew
John Bell
negated because you're a faggot
James Evans
Good riddance.
That's the dumbest shit I've ever heard; you're essentially suggesting they continue to devalue your labor because some dumb chink doesn't understand what its worth.
Lucas Watson
Why did all the other tv manufacturers close pre-Trump?
Good riddance. Fuck them and the illegals they employ.
