{"id":7692,"date":"2016-10-18T15:45:25","date_gmt":"2016-10-18T15:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/minutes.machine.market\/?p=7692"},"modified":"2016-10-18T15:45:25","modified_gmt":"2016-10-18T15:45:25","slug":"85-workers-cut-at-manitowoc-crane-group-in-shady-grove-pa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/machine.market\/blog\/85-workers-cut-at-manitowoc-crane-group-in-shady-grove-pa\/","title":{"rendered":"85 workers cut at Manitowoc Crane Group in Shady Grove, PA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.manitowoccranes.com\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Manitowoc Crane Group<\/a>\u00a0plant in \u00a0Shady Grove, PA has again laid off workers. \u00a0Brian Smith, director of human resources, confirmed the layoff which has affected approximately 85 employees in the production departments.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The cause of the layoff is due to the continued downturn in the economy,\u201d commented Smith, who added that if the economy were to improve, there could be an opportunity for the people who were laid off to return to work.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The layoff took place Friday, Oct. 14. \u00a0The layoffs contradicts previous statements in August, 2016 that the relocation of the crawler crane production from Manitowoc&#8217;s factory in Wisconsin\u00a0to Shady Grove, PA factory would create 250 new jobs.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/minutes.machine.market\/index.php\/2016\/08\/09\/5590\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Manitowoc Company relocating crawler crane operations to Pennsylvania from Wisconsin<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/minutes.machine.market\/index.php\/2016\/08\/10\/manitowocs-move-to-create-250-jobs-a-the-shady-grove-pa-factory\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Manitowoc\u2019s move to create 250 jobs a the Shady Grove, PA factory<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The company has had a history of layoffs over the past couple of years, the most recent in June affecting approximately 70 employees.<\/p>\n<p>Approximately 130 employees were laid off in July 2015, fewer than 100 in December 2014 and 260 employees in February 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Manitowoc Crane Group, founded as Grove Manufacturing in 1947, is still one of Franklin County, Pennsylvania&#8217;s top employers.<\/p>\n<p>Following this reduction, Smith said the company will have around 900 employees.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7693\" style=\"width: 634px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7693\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-7693 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/cranemarket.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Grove-Crane-Plant-Manitowoc-machine.market.jpg\" alt=\"Grove-Crane-Plant-Manitowoc-machine.market\" width=\"624\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/machine.market\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Grove-Crane-Plant-Manitowoc-machine.market.jpg 624w, https:\/\/machine.market\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Grove-Crane-Plant-Manitowoc-machine.market-300x240.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 624px) 100vw, 624px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-7693\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Inside the Manitowoc\/Grove GMK production facility in Shady Grove, PA.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manitowoc Crane Group\u00a0plant in \u00a0Shady Grove, PA has again laid off workers. \u00a0Brian Smith, director of human resources, confirmed the layoff which has affected approximately 85 employees in the production departments. &#8220;The cause of the layoff is due to the continued downturn in the economy,\u201d commented Smith, who added that if the economy were to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7694,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":""},"categories":[2,8,12],"tags":[1011],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v14.7 - 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