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MetLife to move 2,600 jobs
to NC from NE, Calif.
Associated Press, by Emery P. Dalesio
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Posted By:beancounter, 3/7/2013 5:24:50 PM
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| RALEIGH, N.C. - Insurance giant MetLife Inc. said Thursday it will move 2,600 jobs from offices in four Northeast states and California to lower-cost locations in two North Carolina cities, while also getting tax breaks and other incentives that could reach $100 million. The insurer is shifting the jobs from Lowell and Boston, Mass.; Somerset, N.J.; Bloomfield, Conn.; Johnstown, Pa.; Warwick, R.I.; and Aliso Viejo and Irvine, Calif., MetLife spokesman John Calagna said. The positions will be consolidated in Charlotte, which will become the U.S. headquarters for MetLife´s retail business,
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Blue Hen1, 3/7/2013 5:28:34 PM (No. 9213753)
Taxachuseets!
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
TXknitter, 3/7/2013 5:39:19 PM (No. 9213770)
Enjoy the South you cute little liberal Caliornians!!!!
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Charactercounts, 3/7/2013 5:47:56 PM (No. 9213786)
The trouble is, when enough people from blue states move to red states, they end up changing the demographics and voting patterns of the state they move to.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
lotsamojo, 3/7/2013 5:54:41 PM (No. 9213795)
I wonder why all the jobs are going south and not consolidating in business friendly states like Mass, NY and Conn. . . . ?
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
kayjaymac, 3/7/2013 6:20:21 PM (No. 9213834)
Thankfully, our new Republican governor will hopefully see that this is just the beginning! Now, if only some of those jobs would come to coastal NC!
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
calgrammy, 3/7/2013 6:21:35 PM (No. 9213836)
Now 2,600 Progressives in NO.CA. will move to NC. Good luck with that N.C. Feel for you. I remember when CA. was a conservative state, I´m that old.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Ida Lil, 3/7/2013 6:22:23 PM (No. 9213838)
Met life says 2600 jobs not 2600 current job holders will be moved.
Son´s employer just moved 100 jobs but only 25 employees. Thankfully he was the first asked to go-- same state different location.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
bamapreacher, 3/7/2013 6:32:03 PM (No. 9213851)
I don´t consider Charlotte to be in the south. It´s kind of a liberal enclave within the conservative south, much like Vatican City is a Catholic enclave within increasingly secular Italy.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Penney, 3/7/2013 7:09:38 PM (No. 9213893)
BRAVO!!! Welcome to Dixie! You are going to LOVE it!
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
oldbuffalo, 3/7/2013 7:23:49 PM (No. 9213905)
As a MetLife shareholder I applaud the move. Every little bit helps.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
artman1746, 3/7/2013 7:28:36 PM (No. 9213916)
Those liberals will begin to take over the school boards and city councils and turn those cities in NC into little Californias. Look at Colorado. It´s your future NC.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Fiesta del sol, 3/7/2013 7:37:05 PM (No. 9213933)
Welcome to NC, but if you are liberal,please don´t vote here.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
ncgrammie4, 3/7/2013 8:05:06 PM (No. 9213965)
I have been a Met Life Customer for years and I welcome them to my adopted hometown of Charlotte. Over 50% of the people who live here are not natives so they should not have any problem settling in.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Axeman, 3/7/2013 8:09:16 PM (No. 9213970)
Not everyone in California is a commie homosexual criminal anti-American perverted stupid cowardly ignorant Democrat. But the ones who are not are hard to find in southern CA.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Axeman, 3/7/2013 8:10:10 PM (No. 9213973)
I forgot doped-up.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
jond, 3/7/2013 8:44:00 PM (No. 9214006)
It appears that companies sometimes move to shed employees.
OTOH, if you move from a high-cost-of-living state to a low one but keep your salary, in effect you´ve gotten a raise.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Shells, 3/7/2013 9:02:42 PM (No. 9214028)
I can assure you this will not even be mentioned by a single press outlet in CT.
Can´t make their boy Dannel look bad, can they?
My dream is to see every affluent resident of Fairfield county pack up and flee. The rest of CT deserves what they would get.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Trigger2, 3/8/2013 6:15:00 AM (No. 9214311)
Basically, MetLife is moving from high-cost demonrat run states who want even more taxes to low cost NC. Any moron could have predicted this.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Old Army Vet, 3/8/2013 8:31:09 AM (No. 9214535)
Keep it up Moonbeam, you are doing great.
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