GE cuts 950 jobs at PA locomotive plant
Author: Thomas Alva Edison
Date: 04-09-2013 - 17:26

Wall Street Journal 4/9/13

950 jobs cut at GE's Erie, PA plant; will retain 4,500 workers.
160 jobs will be moved to Ft Worth, TX.
Cited lower demand for new locomotives due to falling coal prices; railroads have parked 3,000 locomotives in the past year.

Last year, Caterpillar closed its locomotive assembly plant in London, Ontario (Canada), and transferred production to its factory in Muncie, Illinois.



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