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Harley-Davidson shutdown triggers 207 layoffs at another Kansas City operation
Layoffs are spreading beyond Kansas City's closing Harley-Davidson assembly plant as one of its suppliers revealed plans to eliminate 207 jobs in mid-August.
The company, syncreon, which does sub-assembly and related work for the motorcycle factory, notified Missouri of its job cuts, saying they "are due to the announcement by Harley-Davidson Motor Company of its intent to close these entire facilities."
Many of the workers targeted for layoff are temporary, according to the notice from syncreon. It said only 76 are direct employees of the company, and only some of those are members of either of the two unions representing workers there.
Capra said many of the more seasoned workers at syncreon have left for other jobs, knowing the layoffs were coming. He also said these were the first job losses tied directly to the decision to close the Harley-Davidson plant.
And they're evidence that plant closings hurt a local economy beyond their direct layoffs, just as opening big manufacturing operations help local economies by more than their direct employment.
Harley chose Kansas City for the facility, which opened in 1998, after receiving government assistance and a lot of wooing from officials including then-mayor and now U.S. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver.
"I remember having meetings with Emanuel Cleaver, then the mayor. He helped so much in getting this plant in Kansas City," Capra said.
Harley-Davidson has about 800 employees at the plant. The work is being moved to a plant in York, Pa.
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