Recent news stories say that Progress Rail (subsidiary of Caterpillar) is thinking of closing its diesel engine manufacturing plant in La Grange, Illinois, possibly moving that work to a plant in North Carolina.
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My immediate suspicion on reading this is that it sounds like GE's transfer of its locomotive building operations from Erie to Texas: management using non-union southern labor to break northern unions. But I only know what I read in the papers.
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My immediate suspicion on reading this is that it sounds like GE's transfer of its locomotive building operations from Erie to Texas: management using non-union southern labor to break northern unions. But I only know what I read in the papers.