GE Appliances will move the production of its hotel air-conditioner and refrigeration line from Kentucky to Tennessee, displacing 140 workers from its Kentucky plant and adding 210 jobs to its Tennessee facility.
Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam and Economic Development Commissioner Bob Rolfe said earlier this week that a facility owned by GE’s Chinese parent company, Haier, won the Zoneline business as part of a $9.3 million expansion. The Selmer facility will also produce the upscale Monogram refrigerators and freezers.
GE Appliances spokeswoman Kim Freeman says it would have cost around $13 million to add or expand a building to keep Zoneline at Louisville’s Appliance Park.
Appliance Park union head Dana Crittenden says IUE-CWA Local 83761 is considering lodging a formal complaint with the National Labor Relations Board.
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