A friend of the blog emails:
Should we start a list?
The friend started with the list below, which includes Minnesota companies that are abandoning operations in Minnesota, or moving lots of jobs out of state.
- 3M expansion in South Dakota
- Shutterfly
- TE Connectivity
Any more?
I’d like to make this a running list.
Can’t confirm this, but I did get the information from a former employee that resigned in February. Seagate opened a large facility in Shakopee about ten years ago. After the WuFlu scam, they announced internally, that they were transferring jobs from that facility to “other locations”. She told me that all of those locations were outside of Minnesota and that several other people have already left and took other jobs.
Medtronic?
Between what dates?
Y’all have already lost a lot of heavy manufacturing. Caterpillar for instance, went to Georgia back in 2012.
Night/Night Holdings, LLC will be moving as soon as I can disentangle Minnesota operations and establish new global headquarters in Wisconsin.
This is somewhat related to the topic. At least, it’s another illustration of why people leave.
On Saturday, I received a notice from the Minnesota Department of Revenue, regarding my 2018 property tax refund. I owe them $465. No real explanation; just a copy of my submission form and a smugly worded letter stating “We can do this, because Statute blah, blah, blah”, which also had the standard dispute instructions.
It did allow me to give my wife a wake up call. She’s one of those libidiots that is happy to pay more taxes…, so I told her that this is her chance. Also told her that this is classic DemoCommie fiscal stupidity. Make laws and promises to their drooling constituents, then scramble to find the money to pay for them.
The taxes and Walz’s minions aren’t helping, but (writing as a guy who’s worked in data storage for about a quarter century) the Shakopee Seagate site has a lot of other issues, starting with the fact that desktop and laptop HDDs have been replaced by SSDs for the most part, and Seagate has a lot of competitors in that space. So it’s really more the shift of technology there than government.