Originally posted by: umbrella39
Originally posted by: Fern
Originally posted by: ProfJohn
Did anyone actually click on the link?Originally posted by: Citrix
its a crying shame. a American company with a rich history just packs ups and leaves 1600 FAMILIES high and dry. sad sad sad.
The story is about a factory in CANADA!!!!!!
So much for the great American company packing up and leaving huh?
Smiths Falls will do "everything in our power" to keep Hershey's chocolate plant going, Mayor Dennis Staples vowed Friday, after the company announced it may close the factory in the eastern Ontario town.
Bwuhahahaha, It's a CANADIAN plant that's moving to Mexico.
I am sure then that the people of Canada that might lose their jobs and source of income enjoy that you find their plight so laughable. :roll: Does it matter that they aren't American jobs? Sounds to me like just another American company putting people out of work so they can increase their profit margin and pay slave wages in a country that does not mind living on those wages.
"The statement followed Thursday's announcement that the Hershey Co. will cut about 1,500 jobs from its workforce of 13,000, reducing production lines by more than one-third, outsourcing some production and building a factory in Mexico as part of a three-year restructuring plan."
Wow, the fact that it is a CANADIAN plant and not an AMERICAN plant really has swayed me into not giving a damn. Thanks!
Originally posted by: Fern
Originally posted by: umbrella39
Originally posted by: Fern
Originally posted by: ProfJohn
Did anyone actually click on the link?Originally posted by: Citrix
its a crying shame. a American company with a rich history just packs ups and leaves 1600 FAMILIES high and dry. sad sad sad.
The story is about a factory in CANADA!!!!!!
So much for the great American company packing up and leaving huh?
Smiths Falls will do "everything in our power" to keep Hershey's chocolate plant going, Mayor Dennis Staples vowed Friday, after the company announced it may close the factory in the eastern Ontario town.
Bwuhahahaha, It's a CANADIAN plant that's moving to Mexico.
I am sure then that the people of Canada that might lose their jobs and source of income enjoy that you find their plight so laughable. :roll: Does it matter that they aren't American jobs? Sounds to me like just another American company putting people out of work so they can increase their profit margin and pay slave wages in a country that does not mind living on those wages.
"The statement followed Thursday's announcement that the Hershey Co. will cut about 1,500 jobs from its workforce of 13,000, reducing production lines by more than one-third, outsourcing some production and building a factory in Mexico as part of a three-year restructuring plan."
Wow, the fact that it is a CANADIAN plant and not an AMERICAN plant really has swayed me into not giving a damn. Thanks!
I'm laughing because 99% of the posters above are responding as if it's a USA plant relocating to Mexico. Shows how many either don't read the links we post here, or can't read worth a d@mn.
No, I really don't give a damn about a plant moving from non-USA country to another non-USA country. Why should I?
Plus, the more plants/factorys that move to Mexico = less illegals moving here for jobs. If there were more jobs down there they wouldn't need to come here to begin with.
Fern
Originally posted by: piasabird
I guess it is no longer the great American Chocolate Bar!
Originally posted by: 1EZduzit
Fern,
If the company's moving the Canadian plant I'd say it's a only a matter of time until they move their Oakdale, Ca. plant. The Oakdale plant is 2 years newer and ccording to the wikii link I posted those are their 2 main plants.
I guess I see this as a "Send not to know for whom the bell tolls" scenario.
Originally posted by: piasabird
I guess it is no longer the great American Chocolate Bar!
Originally posted by: BoomerD
Companies who do this kind of stuff should be hit with import taxes, high tarrifs, and treated as if they were a totally foreign company.
FULL USDA inspections, AT 100% company cost, Treat them like the un-Americal pukes they are.
Originally posted by: KK
Originally posted by: BoomerD
Companies who do this kind of stuff should be hit with import taxes, high tarrifs, and treated as if they were a totally foreign company.
FULL USDA inspections, AT 100% company cost, Treat them like the un-Americal pukes they are.
I would think that all imports whether or not they once were based in the USA should be taxed alot higher.
Originally posted by: BoomerD
Originally posted by: piasabird
I guess it is no longer the great American Chocolate Bar!
I live only a few miles from the Oakdale plant, and people are hella worried about their jobs...
BOYCOTT Hershey's.
Originally posted by: senseamp
Thanks for the info, not buying Hersheys no more. They can keep their Mexican chocolate.
as a chocoholic, it hurts me to say this ,but yeah, hersheys are no more in my or my family's life. besides, there are lots and lots of other chocolate candy brands that are loyal to their north american employees to choose from.Originally posted by: Socio
Originally posted by: senseamp
Thanks for the info, not buying Hersheys no more. They can keep their Mexican chocolate.
Same!
Nestles all the way now!
Originally posted by: tweaker2
as a chocoholic, it hurts me to say this ,but yeah, hersheys are no more in my or my family's life. besides, there are lots and lots of other chocolate candy brands that are loyal to their north american employees to choose from.Originally posted by: Socio
Originally posted by: senseamp
Thanks for the info, not buying Hersheys no more. They can keep their Mexican chocolate.
Same!
Nestles all the way now!
Last I checked Mexico is not a U.S. state. It is called south of the border for a reason.Originally posted by: Mill
Mexico is in North America, dumbass.Originally posted by: tweaker2
as a chocoholic, it hurts me to say this ,but yeah, hersheys are no more in my or my family's life. besides, there are lots and lots of other chocolate candy brands that are loyal to their north american employees to choose from.Originally posted by: Socio
Originally posted by: senseamp
Thanks for the info, not buying Hersheys no more. They can keep their Mexican chocolate.
Same!
Nestles all the way now!
Originally posted by: Termagant
Why so much emotion over some stupid candy? A lot of your other food comes from overseas and America is better because of it. If you want to compete with Mexican or Chinese factories, fine, just be prepared to pay the "fair wage" of 30 cents per hour and no benefits. The other alternative is to enact protectionist policies which just hurts the American consumer who pays $3.00 for candy bars. If American companies/workers can't compete, they had better do something to become more productive, like more automation. Wouldn't you rather have Americans working as robot manufacturers/maintainers than Umpa Loompas?
When some people think of chocolate wars, they imagine battles for market share between The Hershey Co. and Mars Inc.
But now the battle is turning to chocolate itself.
Gary Guittard, president of Guittard Chocolate Co. in Burlingame, Calif., is taking a public stand over a request submitted to the Food and Drug Administration to allow a product to be called chocolate even though vegetable fats are substituted for cocoa butter.
"I just don't think that's right," said Guittard, who is the fourth generation of the family owned premium chocolate maker. Chocolate should "contain everything from the cocoa bean," he said.
Not having cocoa butter in chocolate is "like taking tomatoes out of ketchup," he added.
He's not against companies using substitutes for cocoa butter. He just doesn't feel the product should be labeled chocolate. Companies can call it chocolate flavored or something else, he said.
The request involving cocoa-butter substitutes is part of a petition submitted last fall to the FDA for the modernization of food standards. The request was made by the Grocery Manufacturers Association on behalf of 11 organizations, including the Chocolate Manufacturers Association.
The CMA, in a letter to its members posted on its Web site, said the petition reflects the CMA's "view that now is an appropriate time for FDA to update the standards of identity for all foods." The organization added that "by co-signing the food-industry petition, CMA has not endorsed any particular change to the standards of identity for chocolate products."
Hershey is taking a different stand than Guittard.
Spokesman Kirk Saville said, "There are high-quality oils available which are equal to or better than cocoa butter in taste, nutrition, texture and function, and are preferred by consumers."
Originally posted by: steppinthrax
What the hell do you expect. It's cheaper that is the only reason. You can pay a hispanic worker less then 1/3 that you pay an American and the job gets done more efficient due to the lack of worker rights that we have here in the U.S.. The same worker rights that inhibit work lowers efficientcy and causes every other company to leave the United States. Have you considered that Americans have done this to themselves......
Originally posted by: tw1164
Soon it will all be fake chocolate anyways
When some people think of chocolate wars, they imagine battles for market share between The Hershey Co. and Mars Inc.
But now the battle is turning to chocolate itself.
Gary Guittard, president of Guittard Chocolate Co. in Burlingame, Calif., is taking a public stand over a request submitted to the Food and Drug Administration to allow a product to be called chocolate even though vegetable fats are substituted for cocoa butter.
"I just don't think that's right," said Guittard, who is the fourth generation of the family owned premium chocolate maker. Chocolate should "contain everything from the cocoa bean," he said.
Not having cocoa butter in chocolate is "like taking tomatoes out of ketchup," he added.
He's not against companies using substitutes for cocoa butter. He just doesn't feel the product should be labeled chocolate. Companies can call it chocolate flavored or something else, he said.
The request involving cocoa-butter substitutes is part of a petition submitted last fall to the FDA for the modernization of food standards. The request was made by the Grocery Manufacturers Association on behalf of 11 organizations, including the Chocolate Manufacturers Association.
The CMA, in a letter to its members posted on its Web site, said the petition reflects the CMA's "view that now is an appropriate time for FDA to update the standards of identity for all foods." The organization added that "by co-signing the food-industry petition, CMA has not endorsed any particular change to the standards of identity for chocolate products."
Hershey is taking a different stand than Guittard.
Spokesman Kirk Saville said, "There are high-quality oils available which are equal to or better than cocoa butter in taste, nutrition, texture and function, and are preferred by consumers."
Originally posted by: dmcowen674
Last I checked Mexico is not a U.S. state. It is called south of the border for a reason.Originally posted by: Mill
Mexico is in North America, dumbass.Originally posted by: tweaker2
as a chocoholic, it hurts me to say this ,but yeah, hersheys are no more in my or my family's life. besides, there are lots and lots of other chocolate candy brands that are loyal to their north american employees to choose from.Originally posted by: Socio
Originally posted by: senseamp
Thanks for the info, not buying Hersheys no more. They can keep their Mexican chocolate.
Same!
Nestles all the way now!