Media Watch: Hasbro to cut 200 jobs at Massachusetts plant
From Boston Business Journal:
| Hasbro Inc., the second largest toymaker in the United States, plans to eliminate 200 jobs at its board-game plant in Massachusetts....
“While this was a difficult decision, we are optimistic that the union will work with us to make the changes necessary to allow us to become competitive and hopefully secure the substantial majority of manufacturing jobs based in East Longmeadow,” David Hargreaves, Hasbro’s executive vice president of finance and global operations, said in the statement. |
Become competitive?! You mean Hasbro hasn’t been making a profit all these decades? To read the remainder of this short item, head to Boston Business Journal.
Posted by W. Eric Martin on Jan 9, 2008 at 09:00 PM in Game News, Media Watch / 731
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Increasing game quality and production quality while keeping prices down should do the tick, if you ask me :) Posted by Surya Van Lierde on Jan 10, 2008 at 04:15 AM | #
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Obviously the mention of a union is an indication that it was a union crushing move… there also could be some people from the acquisition of Cranium might have a duplication of jobs and machines, but I am not sure as to what things crossed over. I am sure that union busting had to be a part of it. Posted by William Baldwin on Jan 12, 2008 at 10:49 AM | #
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