Heinz to close Ontario factory, trim 740 jobs

Heinz is closing one of its biggest plants in Canada located in Leamington Ontario. This action will cause almost 740 people losing their job.

The rising pressure for Canada manufacture plants is the biggest reason why Heinz take this action. The cost of manufacture product in Ontario is rising while making export is becoming expensive. To ensure future profit and maintain effectiveness for Heinz, top management team decides to shift production to places with more affordable labor and higher production.

In another way, almost 740 people will lose their job due to this action. Closing this plants will hurt Leamington badly since this plants has more than 100 years history and creating major job opportunity for this town.

This change is not only related to profit and productivity within Heinz company, it is also related to ethical issue created by Heinz. Because of the close down, former employers are facing challenging situation because their limited skills. Many of them need to go back to school in order to seek new jobs to support their families. Local government should not rely on Heinz to provide job opportunity, what they should do is to take over the responsibility and try to create job opportunity for unemployed workforce.

What local government can do is promoting policies that attracts more manufacture plants or firms. It creates job opportunities that solve the problem.