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An RV manufacturing site in Sturgis will close in June, resulting in the elimination of 121 jobs.
According to WTVB of Coldwater, Elkhart-based Heartland Recreational Vehicles filed a “Warn Notice” this week with the Michigan Department of Labor and Economic Opportunity, relating the details of the layoff.
Heartland is known for its selection of towable recreational vehicles and travel trailers.
Heartland is closing its facility on Haines Boulevard in Sturgis due to what it called business necessity. The measure will result in six salaried jobs and 116 non-union hourly jobs lost, effective June 20.
The Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act requires companies going through mass layoffs and/or site closures to issue advance public notice to the state’s labor department, should that step meet certain requirements for the size of company or number of people involved.
Non-union means low wage hourly workers barely getting by fired by Thor Industries, a $billion corporation that bought up most everything in recreational vehicles, lowered build standards, ignored warranties, cut wages of workers, and gleefully climbed into with investment monopolizers like Vanguard, Black Rock, Timucan, et al. Fired by CEO Bob Martin who is worth over $50 million, lowly compared to chairman Peter Busch Orthwein’s $298 million.
When are Americans going to stop voting for the million – billionaires, and their political shills, who care nothing for the underpaid people who make their businesses possible with their time and effort?