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Calhoun Falls, SC

Plant shutdown leaves hundreds without jobs

While new government data show the continued bleeding of textile jobs, the pain is especially severe in the Abbeville County community of Calhoun Falls, where 300 WestPoint Home employees learned Monday their ...

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Mar 18, 2006
 
This is terrible news for the employees, and will be difficult to overcome, but I just hope that each one will try to look for other job skills or Tech School training, which would be the best to do.
It is sad that due to all this global trade, America has lost it's manufacturing companies.
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May 29, 2006
 
most of clemson west point was just let go 2 weeks ago also.
everyone that i knew that still worked at WPS a month ago is now gone :(
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