Bristol-Myers To Close Indiana Facility
Make a commentBy Ed Silverman // October 21st, 2009 // 6:31 am
Another day, another downsizing. Unfortunately. The latest round will take place in Evansville, where the drug maker plans to permanently close a quality control facility effective Dec. 31 and also reduce its work force in Mount Vernon, The Evansville Courier & Press reports.
In a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (WARN) filing this week with the Indiana Department of Workforce Development, Bristol disclosed that it anticipates 113 full-time employees will lose their jobs. Of those, 79 are employed at Evansville and 34 at Mount Vernon, according to the filing.
“I’m totally surprised by this news,” Steve Fuelling, a member of the Mount Vernon City Council, tells the paper. “I thought the company was as solid as a rock.” Actually, Steve, with patent expirations and dry pipelines, no company is solid these days. And the only safe jobs are those held by senior execs. But that’s almost always the case.
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