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New Temporary Layoffs At Harley-Davidson

Published by Cyril Huze June 20th, 2008 in Editorial.

At Harley-Davidson in Springettsbury Township the temporary layoffs are in addition to Harley’s planned shutdown from June 30 through July 3. The exact number of layoffs for the week beginning Monday is not known. Harley said in April that more layoffs were on the table for the future (like the one it ordered for 4 days in fall 2007when the Springettsbury Township facility shut down to cut production). The company also said in April that it would permanently cut about 300 workers from the Springettsbury operation, in addition to another 70 production workers in Milwaukee and elsewhere. Harley also plans to cut about 360 nonproduction workers company wide. The company said it hopes to make most of the workforce reductions with early retirees.

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  1. 1 rodent Jun 21st, 2008 at 7:45 am

    They built the new 1200 for Europe and this is their reward.

  2. 2 madpuppy Jun 21st, 2008 at 8:49 am

    Yep, that`s what it looks like to me also.

  3. 3 burnout Jun 21st, 2008 at 9:42 am

    Hmmmmmmmmm! peace

  4. 4 Gar Jun 21st, 2008 at 1:28 pm

    Not even the almighty Harley Davidson is imune from the downturn in the motorcycle industry. Is AMF still around??????????

  5. 5 Conrad Nicklus Jun 22nd, 2008 at 4:01 pm

    “Is AMF still around??????????”

    HAHAHA…..Wow that was seriously funny.

    But yea “temporary layoffs”….hmmm

  6. 6 mike Jun 23rd, 2008 at 8:42 am

    i am still am blown away by those guys striking a while back. so out of touch

  7. 7 mike Jun 23rd, 2008 at 11:08 am

    i wonder when hd will make a move to supplying inexpensive “competitive” bikes for the “growing”
    portion of the market. also , you really dont buy a harley for good gas mileage

  8. 8 Mike Greenwald Jun 23rd, 2008 at 11:21 am

    Another era of hard times.

    http://www.hotbikeweb.com/features/0701_hbkp_american_machine_foundry/index.html

  9. 9 psychodrew Jun 23rd, 2008 at 3:50 pm

    Good for them,all the new bikes they have been putting out lately are quite gay looking.Point being the new cross bones.Single cam evos will go down as the best motor HD has ever made.Twin cam Swim cam they are not REAL

  10. 10 Rainbow Warrior Jun 27th, 2008 at 1:13 pm

    I like the older Harley’s as well. This is a scary thing to see Harley Davidson is laying off 77 people. A sign of the times we are living in. Not many people have extra cash to buy a bike or buy custom parts…heck, we are lucky if we have money to fill up our bikes gas tank.

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