Archy McNally
The Lake Hamilton Gazette
Monday, December 12, 2005

For those of you who for years have praised certain parts of Europe as the blue collar workers Shangri-La the fallowing will come as quite a shock.

Swedish based Electrolux the world's biggest maker of home appliances will close its plant in Nuremberg, Germany as of the end of 2007. Production operations will be transferred to Poland and Italy where production costs are much lower thus eliminating 1,750 Nuremberg workers. Also slated to be closed is a plant in Torsvik, Sweden which employs 190 workers.

The closings are due to the significant high cost of doing business in a socialist country. Labor costs, taxes and government regulation are stagnating the company said Johan Bygge the head of the company's major appliances unit for Europe, Asia and the Pacific.

One never knows does one?