In 2019, FreightCar America announced that it was shutting down its Roanoke operation, eliminating 200 jobs that paid an average of $20 to $21 an hour.
Some union members said then the jobs were really going to Mexico. Our research at the time showed otherwise. The Chicago-based company said it was moving the Roanoke jobs to what it called a âstate-of-the-artâ plant in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, although it sure looked as if the company was moving other jobs in its system to Mexico.
Just two months after FreightCar America announced it was closing the Roanoke operation, it announced it would start building some rail cars in Mexico â and would operate just two plants, the one in Alabama and the one in Castanos, Mexico.
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