NEENAH, Wis. (WBAY) – A small group of people protested outside the Plexus headquarters in Neenah on Thursday to demonstrate against the outsourcing of jobs.
“Outsourced Wisconsin” is a group that is traveling around the state to highlight the issue. They held up signs, criticizing the manufacturing company for outsourcing jobs in the past.
In 2012, Plexus announced it was laying off 116 workers from its Neenah facility. All the jobs were outsourced to foreign countries. An investigation by WKOW, the ABC affiliate in Madison, later uncovered the company received millions of dollars in tax credits from the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation (WEDC)....
...moreKen Notes: Change the way we fund growth to jobs and this problem goes away. And for the record to be competitive you have to use global manufacturing markets. Your computer, TV, phone, and most cars were NOT made in the US.
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