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Updated: 6:25 PM Oct 31, 2008
Layoffs affecting North Texas workers as well
GRAYSON COUNTY, TX ― Southern Oklahoma is not the only area suffering recent layoffs. Companies in north Texas are also being forced to cut back. Rashi Vats spoke to a Van Alstyne worker who lost his job and tells us what these Texomans are now facing. Posted: 6:16 PM Oct 31, 2008Reporter: Rashi Vats Email Address: rashi.vats@kxii.com |
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GRAYSON COUNTY, Tex. ― Southern Oklahoma is not the only area suffering recent layoffs. Companies in north Texas are also being forced to cut back. Rashi Vats spoke to a Van Alstyne worker who lost his job and tells us what these Texomans are now facing.
Pedro Wences went to work on October 6 at MI Windows and Doors in Van Alystne like he has for the past 3-and-a-half years, but that day, when he arrived at work― he found he didn't have any.
"I was mad that they didn't give us any warning or anything. They just took us to a meeting and told us to sit down and started explaining because of the economy and lack of work, they had to lay off people," Wences says.
After the stunning news, Wences says he was forced to borrow money from his family, so he began job hunting immediately.
"As soon as I found out I went straight to go find a job and I was just trying to find whatever I could get," Wences says.
MI Windows and Doors confirms the 35 layoffs are permanent, but job agencies say even while some companies are laying off employees, there are still jobs available in Texoma.
"One thing you have to keep in mind is if you have a job for any period of time and worked your way up, chances are you might not get that same level of job unless you are in one of the very specific skills,” Workforce Texoma executive director Janie Bates says.
Wences went from being an assembly line worker to working at Denison industries repairing auto parts.
He says right now he's just grateful to have a job.
"We’re getting by, but since I found another job it’s getting by right now," he says.
Bates says there are 1,800 new workers currently employed in Grayson County. She says Texoma is not experiencing a vast amount of layoffs, but there are some, and they add up.
"Anytime there is a recession in any part of the country it does have a trickle down effect on us,” Bates says.
It is an effect that the national economy has seen for months, and now Texoma is beginning to see as well.
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