Business news briefs: Whirlpool plant closing protested Compiled from reports by Free Press news services MANUFACTURING Hundreds of sign-carrying protesters have gathered outside a Whirlpool plant in Evansville, Ind., to protest the company's plans to shutter the plant.
Vanderburgh County Sheriff's deputies shut down one lane of U.S.-41 Friday as the crowd gathered for a protest march from a nearby union hall to the factory.
AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka was expected to join the protesters, who carried signs reading "Save our jobs."
Benton Harbor-based Whirlpool announced in August that it would shut down the 1,100-worker refrigerator factory by mid-2010 and move production to Mexico.
Local union President Darrell Collins says corporate greed is behind the closure