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CNH to Cut 150 Jobs at Mount Pleasant Tractor Plant
Wisconsin Ag Connection - 10/28/2014
For the second time in two and a half years, the CNH Industrial plant in Mount Pleasant will be cutting a large number of workers. Union officials said 150 employees will be laid off indefinitely on December 1. The facility is used to make Case IH Magnum and New Holland 8000 series tractors.
Jeff Vassh, who leads the United Auto Workers Local 180, told the Racine Journal Times that CNH will shut down its second-shift tractor assembly this fall and slow tractor production from 40 tractors per day to 30.
CNH blames the slowdown in sales on lower commodity prices, especially in corn and soybeans.
The plant currently employs about 850 union employees. In 2011, the plant expanded its workforce by adding 150 new employees, but then cut about 100 of those jobs in February 2012.
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