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OftenBen · 1597 days ago · link · · parent · post: About 4,000 US truck drivers notified on Monday Celadon was ceasing operations, leaving them jobless and without benefits
This is how it starts. We just watched the lower-middle class take a gut-punch and more are coming. Those jobs aren't coming back.
Mass layoffs will wreck any community. I grew up outside of Rochester, NY. In 2012, Kodak laid off about 27,000 people...in a city of less than 200,000. Rochester hasn’t recovered, and probably won’t. The surrounding area is still devastated from that blow.
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ButterflyEffect · 1597 days ago · link ·
No shit. I'm also from that area. It's weird - there's been some gentrification of Rochester and taking down the Inner Loop to me is still a net-positive, and there's been quite a few spinoff companies from Kodak (and Xerox) but...it's not enough. There's no easy way to entirely restructure a cities workforce like that.