Category: Maytag

Maytag Corporation reported today that its third quarter earnings fell almost 80 percent from a year earlier as restructuring costs, higher steel prices and lower sales on Hoover floor care products have also taken a toll on the company.

Assembly workers at Maytag’s Jackson Dishwashing Products plant walked off the job Thursday morning.

Less than a week after approving a new three-year contract, union workers at Maytag Corp.’s Amana Refrigeration Products plant in Middle Amana face possible layoffs. “It’s an adjustment in production schedules driven by seasonality,” Maytag spokeswoman Lynne Dragomier said Wednesday.

NEWTON, Iowa Maytag Corporation has agreed to a tentative settlement in a lawsuit alleging design flaws with early versions of its Neptune front-load washers.

A further approximately 193 workers at Maytag’s laundry factory in Newton Iowa due to a lower demand for certain appliances produiced at the plant.

In the same week that Matag close their plant in Illinois they have also announced that they will lay off a further possible 170 jobs from its washer and dryer plant in Newton.

Nominated by his college-age daughter, Mark Hunter, 44, of Afton, is Wyoming’s 13th annual American Worker of the Year, as named by Williamson-Dickie Manufacturing Company, maker of Dickies. “There’s not a better job on earl than mine,” Hunter said. “I love my customers and my daily duties. I cou…

Sixteen hundred workers in Galesburg will soon lose their jobs at Maytag. It’s part of the company’s plan to shut down their Galesburg plant and move production to another country.

For Americans who just can’t acquire too much stuff, Maytag has introduced a beverage-vending machine for the home. The SkyBox can dispense 64 cans or 32 bottles, including long necks, and is equipped with child-safety locks to keep kids out of the grown-up drinks. The front panel illuminates lik…

DES MOINES, Iowa Negotiations have begun toward a new contract covering 15-hundred-30 union workers at Maytag Corporation’s Amana refrigerator plant. The workers at the plant in Middle Amana, about 15 miles southwest of Cedar Rapids are represented by Local 1526 of the International Association o…