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Cowlesy
11-11-2011, 12:29 PM
How's that Hope and Change working out for you?

Go find a different way to put bread on your table, Stryker workers. Sincerely, the Obama Administration


http://www.freep.com/article/20111111/BUSINESS06/111110345/Stryker-cut-5-workforce?odyssey=mod|newswell|text|FRONTPAGE|s


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Stryker, the Kalamazoo-based maker of artificial hips and knees, will cut 5% of its global workforce by the end of next year to reduce costs in the face of new fees on device makers required by the U.S. health care law.

The job cuts will reduce annual pretax operating costs by more than $100 million beginning in 2013, when the medical-device excise tax is scheduled to take effect, Stryker said Thursday in a statement. Stryker had more than 20,000 employees as of Dec. 31, according to Bloomberg News data.

Stryker expects to record $85 million to $95 million of the expense in the fourth quarter of 2011.

KCIndy
11-11-2011, 12:46 PM
No sweat. All the manufacturing of the artificial joints will be moved to China, where they can be made by slave labor for 10% the cost. This leaves the displaced workers at Stryker free to purchase other goods that are still made in America and... uh... how was that supposed to go again??

/S

Cowlesy
11-11-2011, 12:55 PM
No sweat. All the manufacturing of the artificial joints will be moved to China, where they can be made by slave labor for 10% the cost. This leaves the displaced workers at Stryker free to purchase other goods that are still made in America and... uh... how was that supposed to go again??

/S

You forgot that also this will be somehow Wall Street's fault, and not Obama's fault, so they'll contribute to actually re-elect the man who cost them their jobs.