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50. GE shut down their lightbulb plant and laid everyone off, early 1970s

Fri Apr 4, 2025, 07:47 PM

Apr 4

I think it was in Syracuse NY. Built a new lightbulb plant in Mexico with cheap non-union labor. Their manufacturing costs went from $.25 per lightbulb to $.05 apiece. Do you think GE ever lowered their retail price for lightbulbs? Oh hell no! They just pocketed all the extra profit and paid it out to the shareholders. (My ex-husband was a financial manager for GE during those years, that's how I knew this stuff.)

Then it was small appliances, then televisions and other electronics, etc. etc. Plants were closed all over upstate New York and New England, moved to Asia, Central America and elsewhere. So many American jobs were lost! You actually landed on your feet and retained your career, but it didn't work that way for most of their former employees.

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General Electric was one of the first multi-national corporations to do it FakeNoose Apr 4 #40

GE was the inspiration for my post. Dr. T Apr 4 #41

GE shut down their lightbulb plant and laid everyone off, early 1970s FakeNoose Apr 4 #50

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