February 26, 2010 Evansville, Indiana. Click here to see our previous post about Whirlpool moving 1100 of our jobs to Mexico. The folks in Evansville, Indiana let Whirlpool know that moving to Mexico might not be a good idea. We covered the event with photos (click here to view photos) and videos (the videos are after the page break) hoping to give our readers a flavor of what transpired in Evansville, Indiana February 26, 2010 and according to our sources the Evansville police estimated 5500 were at the rally.
Richard Trumka had this to say: "What’s happening here in Evansville is a head-on collision between corporate greed and failed economic policies-and it’s happening all across our country." Click here to see the video.
The AFL-CIO delivered a refrigerator to Whirlpool.
AFL-CIO AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka along with 40 people, including children and grandchildren of workers, clergy and retirees, used a Whirlpool refrigerator to wheel petitions with 65,000 signatures to the plant’s locked front gate. The petitions urged Whirlpool executives to reconsider their decision to shutter the Evansville plant, laying off 1,100 people and moving jobs to Mexico. Union members also made more than 1,700 phone calls today alone to Whirlpool headquarters in Benton Harbor, Mich., and the Evansville offices with the same message.
Give Whirlpool a call, it's toll free (800) 422-1230. These are tough times and I believe in tough times we see the true colors of those that claim to be American patriots. Today I saw Whirlpool's true colors and they weren't Red, White and Blue. They were green and that's the color of greed.
