‘When is this going to end?’: US factory town devastated by jobs moving overseas
by Michael Sainato from on (#5K9K9)
The Viatris plant in West Virginia has been making pharmaceuticals since 1965 - but it's closing down and laying workers off
Disbelief. Distraught and traumatized."
Just some of the words the United Steelworkers Local 8-957 president, Joe Gouzd, used to describe how he and hundreds of other workers felt after their 56-year-old pharmaceutical plant in West Virginia was shut down, sending between 1,500 and 2,000 jobs to India and Australia.
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