Red Wing Shoe to trim workforce

Red Wing Shoe to trim workforce,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]
Red Wing Shoe Co. intends to cut 60 jobs from its Red Wing plant and close a Kentucky factory because customer demand for work boots has slid as many blue-collar workers lost their jobs in the recession.
At the Red Wing plant,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], which is unionized,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the company will offer early retirement packages to workers, company spokesman Peter Engel said Friday.
"We won't know for another four weeks if we have to have layoff notices for some employees,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]," Engel said. But he emphasized that many workers in Red Wing have 25 to 30 years of service, so layoffs could be avoided if 60 people choose to accept the voluntary early retirement benefits.
The company plans to shutter its Danville,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Ky.,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], plant by June and transfer the work that's done there to the two remaining factories in Red Wing and Potosi, Mo.
"We've been running at 60 to 70 percent capacity over the past 12 months" at the three plants,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Engel said.
As it consolidates workers in two facilities,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the company plans to restore 40-hour workweeks by early next year. Over the next six months, Engel said that about 40 to 50 workers will be added in Missouri. The full workweeks and new hires should keep production at current levels.
In Minnesota and Missouri, employees have been working four-day weeks and a shared work unemployment program allowed workers to earn about 90 percent of their regular paychecks,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Engel said.
In Red Wing, the second shift will be eliminated and everybody will work the main shift.
"We were optimistic that the economy would recover sooner,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]," Dave Murphy,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], company president,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], said in a statement. "However,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the continued record unemployment in the blue-collar segment, which is our core customer base, shows no signs of a quick recovery."
There are 199 factory workers and seven supervisors in Danville who'll lose their jobs,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Engel said,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], adding that job cuts will occur over time as production lines are shut down and moved to Minnesota and Missouri.
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