Caterpillar: South Carolina’s Loss Means Job Gains for Georgia
Thursday, May 1st, 2014
Nearly 400 full-time jobs and 130 temporary positions will vanish from the South Carolina Upstate within months as Caterpillar is shutting down its facility in Fountain Inn, S.C.
Caterpillar made the announcement this week – citing production issues as its reason for shifting a marine engine assembly line to Georgia and another engine assembly line to Texas.
According to reporter Brianna Smith of WSPA TV 7 (CBS – Greenville-Spartanburg, S.C.), the company “will ramp down production beginning in the second quarter of 2014.”
The station adds that “employees in Fountain Inn have been sent home Tuesday to be with their families.”
