As a cost-saving measure, the land where the Silicon Valley plant sits will be sold. Most employees will be offered a paid relocation to Torrance. In cases where there is already a person in that job at the Torrance plant, whoever has seniority gets the job. The other one gets a pink slip. This will start this fall and continue throughout 2017.
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I heard from a consultant, former manager at San Carlos, that the Torrance plant will close. Those of us that did not move to Torri, knew that they would fail, we just did not anticipate how catastrophic it would be in the end. The comment above is not correct, San Carlos and Torrance did not make the same products. However, his/her comment about the Torrance mgt was correct, they did mess it up because they could not get the union employees to work together and work at all. The union is mostly at fault for the closure of the Torrance facility.
As an employee who worked in the San Carlos devision for 45 Years and retired.
Closing the San Carlos CA devision is a huge mistake by management. The reason is that trying to teach new people to build a highly technical product will without any doubt fail.
A concerned x employee.
Funny thing, both divisions (San Carlos and Torrance) make the same products, Military TWT. However, the San Carlos division actually has more sales than Torrance with a larger customer base. I'm not sure what the Electron Devices division does in Pennsylvania.
This will be all messed up. Torrance management doesn't know their a-- for a hole in the ground. They will f--- this up like everything else.
Yes it is the Electron Device devision in San Carlos.
From what I hear from the employees, the move is going very poorly and will more than likely fail.
Key floor managers and technicians are leaving and not training the Torance CA replacement employees.
These are very high tech products and it will be impossible to cross train the Torance employees by late 2017.
Is this the same division that will also see some jobs moved to Central Pennsylvania?