A good friend's company was slating lay offs of 500+ in a very rural area. That was scheduled to hit in about a month.

Last night, the lay off was called off. Domestic orders have picked up enough since Nov., and with projections for even more coming.

in the big picture 500 jobs don't seem like a lot but I bet it seems like 500,000 to those losing the jobs.

I will be nice to buy goods manufactured here in the states again.

In an area that small, 500 jobs is YUGE.

Consider that employer makes heavy trucks. Now what's the ripple effect?

500 jobs feeding 500 families, so likely affecting 1000's.

I have heard it said that for every GM employee there are 9 supporting jobs created. I would think it would be a little higher in the heavy truck industry but I don't' know that as fact.

So in the least it would mean about 5000 jobs total, not bad on Trumps first 1/2 day!

500 very good paying blue collar jobs!

Damn little you can buy made in usa even if you set out to.

Yew think....

I have family that would have been on the chopping block, they are all very relieved today!!
Go Trump!

We know exactly what would have happened in that area had the lay off gone forward. It might have just been 500 jobs directly, but indirectly it would have crushed thousands in an area that cannot afford another gut punch.

Watch the Democrats try and play their normal game of saying "see all of Obama's economic policies turned everything around and Trump inherited it..."

For every job there, there are 3 more support jobs at other places. I hope their order board fills back up and things take off!

How many were layed off 2 months ago?
300?

This most recent announcement was basically going to shut down a whole shift wasn't it?

+1000 !

Yes, and yes.

Those 300 should be getting a call back soon, I hope.

This^^^^^^^^^^

For every job lost like that, it effects at least 4 other local peoples jobs.... maybe more in a rural area...

So 500 people is effecting a total of 2500 people, themselves included....

Even in a small town of 10,000, that would pretty much most of the town's workers effected one way or another...

having worked for 2 years in a GM factory during college, I can tell you there are more than 9 peripheral jobs for each in plant employee.....

Wonder if under Trump, we'll actually find out how many people are really unemployed in this country......

and the jobs he's bringing back, aren't flipping burgers or making Tacos....unlike the Obama Administrations achievements of "new jobs"....

Hopefully their orders come back up and those folks get called back soon.

I'd love a reason to own a coal scuttle

They HAVE announced some new contracts that they have received within the past 3-4 days.

Betting RAAP starts ramping up production as well.

Oh yeah! Madam has been mentioning up to 3 times in5 minutes how oboma inherited an economy in crises. Word for word pretty much. Surely this was not a talking point put out for legacy??? Not one word about abisimal growth rate or the doubling the debt in 8 years from what it took a half dozen other presidents and 40 years to "achieve".

500 jobs averaging 40,000 = 20,000,000... taxes at 10% = 2,000,000 vs 500 unemployment claims... add to that all the supporting businesses and jobs.

Capitalism, private sector and street economics, it's fairly obvious.

Kent

Damned smell Chex!! MSM not madam, tho they are whores.

strange you should mention that, i have been eyeballing a couple of companies the last couple days.

#WINNING!

Those previously laid off workers are being called back.

Winning...

Those 500 jobs will feed a vast fleet of vendors!!

Over 800 now; 500+ not laid off, 300+ recalled from an earlier layoff.

In an area of well under 40,000 total residents.

Starting salary for those jobs is above the median HOUSEHOLD income in the region.

YUGE, is an understatement.

No one in Gooberment ever bring this up.

500 jobs can help support a hole lot more out side direct contact with the company they are employed by.

When I talked about 9 supporting jobs created for every auto worker job created I didn't even think about the jobs that would be created when those 300 start spending their monies.

You bet it's huge, Bigly!

The county this plant is located in went 70% for Trump. We were ready to start winning

It is a pretty big deal as 500 pay checks a week turn over a few times through out the community...lotsa ripples...

GM had a layoff in December of a few thousand and Ford shut down their F-150 line for about a week all due to the uncertainty leading up to Nov. 8th. Goodyear did a two week shutdown around the Christmas holiday at the Lawton facility as they were overstocked with OEM tires. I understand all of that is nearly back to normal. (about 10,000 affected in the short term) ...More Trump effect...

This is about right.

500 real jobs supporting an additional 4500 service sector jobs.