Article 5K9K9 ‘When is this going to end?’: US factory town devastated by jobs moving overseas

‘When is this going to end?’: US factory town devastated by jobs moving overseas

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Michael Sainato
from Economics | The Guardian 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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