Vought's silence signaled intent to leave (1000 jobs)

[UpInArms]

http://www.tennessean.com/business/archives/04/02/47530007.shtml?Element_ID=47530007

Things seemed to be going well in the local effort to help Vought Aircraft Industries expand its Nashville operations.

There was a lot of activity between July, when Vought's purchase of Aerostructures Corp. was finalized, and October, when the company's board convened in Nashville.

Then things changed.

''It went quiet in November,'' said Nancy Eisenbrandt, senior vice president for business services for the Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce. ''They didn't return our calls.''

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Cooper said the company had underestimated the political repercussions for closing the Nashville plant and eliminating 1,000 good-paying jobs.

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Officials from Cooper's office, as well as Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist and U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander, met with Vought officials in Nashville Friday afternoon and asked the company to reconsider its decision.

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[rfranklin]

1. It' s just good bidness...

Texas Bush crime family style.

[bmbmd]

2. Yeah-they are relocating to the Fort Worth area

the media keeps talking about three thousand new jobs. In reality, there are no new jobs-just transfers to Texas from California and Tennesee.

[jburton]

3. Yeah, DFW media is all excited

Every news anchor is having a spooge-fest over the "3,000 new jobs!"

Well, they aren't new jobs, just ones coming from another state, and many people will transfer.

But from what the news is saying you'd think the 80% local foreclosure rate and unemployment were just magically solved.