‘The stakes couldn’t be higher’: GE urged to invest in green US jobs

Labor and environmental groups are demanding that General Electric stop offshoring jobs and invest in renewable energy

Kevin Smith, of Salem, Virginia, worked at General Electric for about 20 years before the town's plant was shut down at the end of 2019, and the work moved to a factory in India.

It was a total shock because of how things had been going, with all the overtime we were working, everything just seemed great, like there was no way this was happening. All I wanted to do was wake up, that I had a nightmare, but that wasn't the case," said Smith, 50, who was one of about 265 GE workers who were laid off due to the closure.