Comments on: Layoffs As Ascend Performance Materials Cantonment Facility Cuts Workforce

By: David Huie Green

David Huie Green — Wed, 16 Oct 2024 02:19:12 +0000

REGARDING:
“This problem will only be solved ONE WAY!
On November 5th vote for XXXXXX and MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!”

America has never stopped being great. That’s why so many want to come here. We are so wonderful.

How would voting in a long time crook who could never concentrate on his job last time and frequently shows signs of dementia improve things? He spent his last term kissing up to dictators, dodging criminal investigations, pardoning his felons, ignoring pandemic threats, disrespecting our services and their sacrifices for our freedom, lying about his losses and failures, ignoring global threats, selling out to other countries, stealing government property, just being himself.
None of which made America better.

Republicans HAD decent potential candidates who COULD have gotten elected without shame but chose him instead.

Let him eat cat since he can’t stomach crow.

By: Hudson Murphy

Hudson Murphy — Mon, 14 Oct 2024 21:12:31 +0000

I worked there 47 years, the company got greedy and ignored training good employees that are the Life of the Plant. Went up on prices instead of putting money into the plant

By: Adam wise

Adam wise — Mon, 14 Oct 2024 19:39:35 +0000

Sadly “give me a break” all the stats you brought up are post pandemic the jobs your claiming were made are literally jobs that were lost during pandemic. If what u say was true and those jobs were after all pandemic layoffs filled and not counted you wouldn’t see hiring signs everywhere. Plus you quoted 2021 stats they weren’t able to hire back the workforce that they laid off. 3.8 million by 2033 won’t equal what was lost. Work is being sent over seas you should probably listen more cause who stated the china stuff knows a lot more about this particular plant than you do. People get jobs at places like this to retire from them. Can say from experience it sucks coming in everyday not knowing if you’ll have a job. If you work out here and it isn’t crossing your mind often you’re lying to urself. Management is the biggest issue for ascend.

By: Tim Barberi

Tim Barberi — Mon, 14 Oct 2024 15:22:33 +0000

Thankx Uncle Joe…

By: RAM

RAM — Mon, 14 Oct 2024 00:28:31 +0000

Very terrible situation for the folks at Ascend.
For the last 3ish years, every morning when I boot-up my PC there
seems to be at least one news article about another company filing for bankruptcy.

There’s only ONE ANSWER that will solve this problem!
It’s not: “Unions” or “cutting CEO SALARIES” to cover payrolls.
This problem will only be solved ONE WAY!
On November 5th vote for Donald Trump and MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!

By: Bob

Bob — Sun, 13 Oct 2024 10:37:21 +0000

@Scott

…or we use an alternative to nylon.

By: Scott

Scott — Sat, 12 Oct 2024 18:38:20 +0000

Well now Kayla what parts of your everyday life can you do without if they get rid of nylon? Seatbelts in your car, zip ties, oven bags, safe dashes in your car, airbags in your car? Just to name a very few products made from nylon. When people wish to get rid of things to save the environment supposedly all they gotta do is figure out what they can do without. Go to horse and buggy. Tell FLP to turn ya power off. Tell the grocery stores to stop taking deliveries of food from truckers. Then when you get what you’re asking for, complain because you were ignorant of what you’ve asked for. Sit in the dark with the kids. No more tvs either. Many parts are made with nylon. Too many people have no clue.

By: Bibby

Bibby — Sat, 12 Oct 2024 16:20:52 +0000

Actually Mr Jackson is right. Shipping costs are way up thanks to high energy cost. Warehousing your materials got more expensive and to top it off they sent people to show companies in china how things were made here. Talk about working yourself out of a job. So cheap labor overseas without having a tax or something on these cheap made products coming into the country kills Americans jods plain and simple. Do keep telling yourself the same lie that your being spoon fed and keep your heads in the sand because your to afraid to go against the grain and say enough is enough.

# common sense makes life easier

By: Not You

Not You — Sat, 12 Oct 2024 14:24:20 +0000

@Rasheed Jackson
Industries started moving overseas when Reagan was president.

By: Tim

Tim — Sat, 12 Oct 2024 13:47:00 +0000

It has nothing to do with unions or how much CEOs makes. Read the article. There just isn’t as much demand for the product the plant makes. The economy has been poor for a few years, so people haven’t had money to spend. Union or no union, overpaid CEO or fairly paid CEO, if there isn’t a market for your product, you can’t just keep making the product. You can cherry pick whatever stats you want, but this is empirical evidence of the state of our current economy. It isn’t good.