John V
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Actually everyone who responded or read the responses should read this before making judgment. Hershey is closing a few plants and laying off those employees, and are going to build a facility in Monterey Mexico. However Hershey is still going to continue to make chocolate in the US and is not closing down its operations here. Only about 10% of Hershey's workforce will be affected. Please read the following excerpt, and the URL in the Source List.
"Milton Hershey was not your typical corporate tycoon unlike others who exploited their workers to produce the largest possible profit, he worked to better the lives of those he employed. He built them a town (named Hershey, of course), and furnished it with schools, churches, banks, and stores. He also established the Hershey Industrial School (now the Milton Hershey School), then a training center for orphaned
boys but now open to both genders.
Milton Hershey died in 1945, but his town of Hershey lives on, as does his chocolate-making empire.
In February 2007, Hershey's announced it would be cutting more than ten percent of its workforce and closing some of its U.S. plants. It expects to do away with about 1,500 jobs over the next three years from its current workforce of more than 13,000 and also plans to reduce the number of manufacturing lines it operates by almost a third. The company is building a new facility in Monterrey, Mexico, that it says will be focused on both low-value added products and on emerging markets, and it is setting up a joint manufacturing venture in China with Lotte Confectionery of South Korea.
Hershey's Canadian operations are almost ended; by December 2007 the company will no longer have facilities in Canada. Other plant closures include facilities in Oakdale, California; Naugatuck, Connecticut; and Reading, Pennsylvania.
However, despite the e-mail's message that Hershey's is ending its U.S. operations, it should be kept in mind that while 3,000 of Hershey's U.S. workforce was (or will be) laid off, the rest of its American employees continue to work for the company, and Hershey's plants in the U.S. continue to make chocolate.
Boycott the chocolate maker's products if you feel it's the right thing to do, but if you do, do so on the basis of protesting a cut in Hershey's U.S. workforce, not because you think the company has ceased its American operations and shut down all its U.S. plants."
Barbara "bittersweet chocolate" Mikkelson
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