The cost of doing business in New York is driving more jobs out, even with $543,900 incentives from IDA’s doesn’t help. It is cheaper to leave and leave us high and dry once again holding the bill.
Buffalo News - More than 100 lose jobs here as work shifts to Mexico
Visteon completed the shutdown of manufacturing at its radiator plant in West Seneca at the end of September, the company said, a move that eliminates more than 100 jobs.
The auto-parts maker is consolidating production at a lower-cost plant in Mexico, while retaining engineering and customer service jobs here.
“A small number of (production) employees will remain for several more weeks as we complete the transfer of equipment,” spokesman Jim Fisher said.
The plant in the North American Park made replacement radiators and air-conditioner parts sold in parts stores and service stations.
The site, part of Visteon’s Climate Control Systems division, had 130 production jobs when the shutdown plan was announced last year. The workers have been gradually let go as production tapered off, Fisher said.
Production workers are represented by the United Auto Workers Local 55 and make about $13 an hour.
The Michigan-based company said that about 70 non-production jobs remain in West Seneca.
“We’re actively seeking companies to sub-lease that space from us,” Fisher said.
Formerly the parts arm of Ford Motor Co., Visteon bought the climate control business in 1998 from what was then called ARS Inc. in Cheektowaga. Visteon moved the business to West Seneca in 2000 with the aid of $543,900 in incentives from the Erie County Industrial Development Agency.
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackLast week my best friend’s wife lost her job at a small Amherst company. It was not unexpected, as work had been slowing down over the past several months. She did credit checks for various lending institutions.
Al is 66 and Ruth will be 65 next June so the loss of Health Insurance, partially paid by her former employer, adds a huge financial burden to their lives.
They are now putting their home in Cheektowaga on the market because they can no longer afford the more than $4,000 they pay in yearly property taxes. Going to move to Hickory, North Carolina to be near her son Bill and his family. Bill fled Western New York with his family six years ago and the taxes and fees are much lowerin N.C.
The bleeding of jobs and people goes on and on in our region.
“The cost of doing business in New York is driving more jobs out”
Are you that mentally challanged Rus?
The jobs are going to MEXICO (thats another country). The problem is the United States’s problem, not Cheektowaga’s or West Seneca’s or New York’s…An employer can pay a worker $0.60 a day in Mexico or China, how can we ever compete with that?
You could blame it on the high cost in New York if they moved to North Carolina or Ohio, not Mexico.
And what about all those Geico and Medical Campus jobs that moved IN to WNY. High paying service jobs that require high levels of education are what we are attracting, because we have a lot of highly educated people thanks to the publically funded SUNY system.
We are losing manufacturing jobs, like the rest of the country, not because of the high cost in NY, but because of the high cost of the United States…
… personally I think the IDA should have gotten a “stop order” until that company paid back the incentive money and any other money given to them by the town, county or state. The companies that do this are nothing more than thieves and should be prosecuted. I’m also sick & tired of the production worker taking the hit when these companies leave the country. It’s nothing but GREED on the part of company execs.
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