{"id":242,"date":"2009-05-03T06:47:55","date_gmt":"2009-05-02T20:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=242"},"modified":"2009-05-03T06:47:55","modified_gmt":"2009-05-02T20:47:55","slug":"intel-philippines-to-close-1800-to-lose-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=242","title":{"rendered":"Intel Philippines to close; 1,800 to lose jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" \/><meta name=\"ProgId\" content=\"Word.Document\" \/><meta name=\"Generator\" content=\"Microsoft Word 11\" \/><meta name=\"Originator\" content=\"Microsoft Word 11\" \/>\n<link href=\"file:\/\/\/C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5Cdino%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml\" rel=\"File-List\" \/><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags\" name=\"PlaceType\" downloadurl=\"http:\/\/www.5iantlavalamp.com\/\"><\/o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags\" name=\"country-region\" downloadurl=\"http:\/\/www.5iantlavalamp.com\/\"><\/o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags\" name=\"place\" downloadurl=\"http:\/\/www.5iantlavalamp.com\/\"><\/o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags\" name=\"City\" downloadurl=\"http:\/\/www.5iamas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags\"><\/o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags\" name=\"PlaceName\" downloadurl=\"http:\/\/www.5iantlavalamp.com\/\"><\/o:smarttagtype><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>  <w:WordDocument>   <w:View>Normal<\/w:View>   <w:Zoom>0<\/w:Zoom>   <w:PunctuationKerning\/>   <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas\/>   <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false<\/w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>   <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false<\/w:IgnoreMixedContent>   <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false<\/w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>   <w:Compatibility>    <w:BreakWrappedTables\/>    <w:SnapToGridInCell\/>    <w:WrapTextWithPunct\/>    <w:UseAsianBreakRules\/>    <w:DontGrowAutofit\/>   <\/w:Compatibility>   <w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4<\/w:BrowserLevel>  <\/w:WordDocument> <\/xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>  <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState=\"false\" LatentStyleCount=\"156\">  <\/w:LatentStyles> <\/xml><![endif]--><!--[if !mso]><object  classid=\"clsid:38481807-CA0E-42D2-BF39-B33AF135CC4D\" id=ieooui><\/object> \n\n<style> st1\\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } <\/style>\n\n <![endif]--><\/p>\n<style> <!--  \/* Font Definitions *\/  @font-face \t{font-family:\"Arial Narrow\"; \tpanose-1:2 11 5 6 2 2 2 3 2 4; \tmso-font-charset:0; \tmso-generic-font-family:swiss; \tmso-font-pitch:variable; \tmso-font-signature:647 0 0 0 159 0;} @font-face \t{font-family:\"Script MT Bold\"; \tpanose-1:3 4 6 2 4 6 7 8 9 4; \tmso-font-charset:0; \tmso-generic-font-family:script; \tmso-font-pitch:variable; \tmso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;}  \/* Style Definitions *\/  p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal \t{mso-style-parent:\"\"; \tmargin:0cm; \tmargin-bottom:.0001pt; \tmso-pagination:widow-orphan; \tfont-size:12.0pt; \tfont-family:\"Times New Roman\"; \tmso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";} @page Section1 \t{size:595.3pt 841.9pt; \tmargin:14.2pt 17.0pt 14.2pt 17.0pt; \tmso-header-margin:35.45pt; \tmso-footer-margin:35.45pt; \tmso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 \t{page:Section1;} @page Section2 \t{size:595.3pt 841.9pt; \tmargin:14.2pt 17.0pt 14.2pt 17.0pt; \tmso-header-margin:35.45pt; \tmso-footer-margin:35.45pt; \tmso-columns:2 even 14.2pt; \tmso-paper-source:0;} div.Section2 \t{page:Section2;} --> <\/style>\n<p><!--[if gte mso 10]> \n\n<style>  \/* Style Definitions *\/  table.MsoNormalTable \t{mso-style-name:\"Table Normal\"; \tmso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; \tmso-tstyle-colband-size:0; \tmso-style-noshow:yes; \tmso-style-parent:\"\"; \tmso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; \tmso-para-margin:0cm; \tmso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; \tmso-pagination:widow-orphan; \tfont-size:10.0pt; \tfont-family:\"Times New Roman\"; \tmso-ansi-language:#0400; \tmso-fareast-language:#0400; \tmso-bidi-language:#0400;} <\/style>\n\n <![endif]--><\/p>\n<p class=\"Section1\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial Narrow'\">April 1 (Bloomberg) &#8212; Rosemarie Maglalang and her husband made a living out of housing and feeding Intel Corp. factory workers in the <st1:place w:st=\"on\"><st1:country-region w:st=\"on\">Philippines<\/st1:country-region><\/st1:place> for the past 13 years. That livelihood is about to disappear. <o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 3pt; font-family: 'Arial Narrow'\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial Narrow'\">The world\u2019s biggest maker of semiconductors will close its chip-assembly factory in General Trias later this year, leaving 1,800 workers jobless. The township south of <st1:place w:st=\"on\"><st1:city w:st=\"on\">Manila<\/st1:city><\/st1:place> will lose its largest employer, which Intel says accounted for 36 percent of the province\u2019s real domestic production in 2004. <o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial Narrow'\"><br style=\"page-break-before: auto\" clear=\"all\" \/> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 3pt; font-family: 'Arial Narrow'\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial Narrow'\">\u201cThis is the worst thing that has happened to our municipality,\u201d Maglalang, 42, said as she took a break from cooking chicken adobo, a Philippine delicacy. \u201cIt\u2019s unthinkable.\u201d <\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 3pt; font-family: 'Arial Narrow'\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify\"><st1:place w:st=\"on\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial Narrow'\">Asia<\/span><\/st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial Narrow'\">\u2019s developing economies lured multinationals such as Sony Corp. and Texas Instruments Inc. in the past four decades with cheap and abundant labor, and the factories in turn created jobs and spurred growth. Now the world\u2019s largest companies are shutting those plants in the global recession, threatening communities that have grown dependent on them. <o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 3pt; font-family: 'Arial Narrow'\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial Narrow'\">Tokyo-based Sony, the world\u2019s second-largest consumer electronics maker, said in December that it would cut manufacturing sites by 10 percent from 57 by March 2010 and eliminate 16,000 jobs. U.S. hard-disk-drive maker Western Digital Corp., and Toyota Motor Corp. and Panasonic Corp. of Japan plan to fire workers and shut or sell plants in Thailand, Malaysia and the Philippines amid falling demand. <o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 3pt; font-family: 'Arial Narrow'\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 16pt; font-family: 'Arial Narrow'\">Plunging Exports <o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 3pt; font-family: 'Arial Narrow'\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial Narrow'\">Intel\u2019s shipments through the <st1:place w:st=\"on\"><st1:country-region w:st=\"on\">Philippines<\/st1:country-region><\/st1:place> totaled $5.83 billion last year, more than 10 percent of the nation\u2019s $49 billion in export revenue. The country\u2019s dependence on foreign manufacturers is already hurting its economy: Exports slumped 41 percent in January from a year earlier, the biggest drop since at least 1981. <o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 3pt; font-family: 'Arial Narrow'\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial Narrow'\">\u201cThese multinationals will go and stay in countries where incentives are better\u201d as they lower costs, said Ernesto F. Herrera, secretary-general of the Trade Union Congress of the <st1:place w:st=\"on\"><st1:country-region w:st=\"on\">Philippines<\/st1:country-region><\/st1:place>, the nation\u2019s largest organization of labor groups. \u201cIt\u2019s purely business.\u201d <o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 3pt; font-family: 'Arial Narrow'\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial Narrow'\">The global economy is likely to shrink this year for the first time since World War II, swelling the ranks of the poor by 46 million and increasing poverty in 43 developing countries, the World Bank estimates. In the <st1:place w:st=\"on\"><st1:country-region w:st=\"on\">Philippines<\/st1:country-region><\/st1:place>, almost a quarter of the 94 million population already lives on less than $1.25 a day. The jobless rate, at 7.7 percent, is among <st1:place w:st=\"on\">Asia<\/st1:place>\u2019s highest.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 3pt; font-family: 'Arial Narrow'\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 16pt; font-family: 'Arial Narrow'\">Cutting Jobs <o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 3pt; font-family: 'Arial Narrow'\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial Narrow'\">Osaka-based Panasonic, the world\u2019s biggest consumer- electronics maker, said in January it would slash 490 jobs in <st1:country-region w:st=\"on\">Malaysia<\/st1:country-region> and 60 in the <st1:place w:st=\"on\"><st1:country-region w:st=\"on\">Philippines<\/st1:country-region><\/st1:place> by shutting three plants. <st1:city w:st=\"on\">Toyota<\/st1:city>, based in <st1:city w:st=\"on\">Toyota City<\/st1:city>, <st1:country-region w:st=\"on\">Japan<\/st1:country-region>, offered 300 temporary workers in <st1:place w:st=\"on\"><st1:country-region w:st=\"on\">Thailand<\/st1:country-region><\/st1:place> early retirement in December. General Motors Corp., the largest <st1:country-region w:st=\"on\">U.S.<\/st1:country-region> automaker, has cut 790 positions in <st1:place w:st=\"on\"><st1:country-region w:st=\"on\">Thailand<\/st1:country-region><\/st1:place>, paring its local workforce to about 2,000. <o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 3pt; font-family: 'Arial Narrow'\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial Narrow'\">The <st1:place w:st=\"on\"><st1:country-region w:st=\"on\">Philippines<\/st1:country-region><\/st1:place> predicts about 800,000 workers at home and abroad will be let go by companies. President Gloria Arroyo, 61, is spending more on roads and bridges this year to spur employment, giving her government the biggest budget deficit since 2004. <o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 3pt; font-family: 'Arial Narrow'\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"border: 1pt solid windowtext; padding: 1pt 4pt\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"border: medium none ; padding: 0cm\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Script MT Bold'\">If you can&#8217;t\u00a0explain it simply, you don&#8217;t<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 11pt\"> <\/span><strong><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Script MT Bold'\">understand it well enough.<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 11pt\"> \u2013 <\/span><strong><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Script MT Bold'\">Albert Einstein<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 11pt\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 3pt; font-family: 'Arial Narrow'\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial Narrow'\">\u201cThe closure of this facility will reverberate economically,\u201d said Arlita Narag, a spokeswoman for Intel\u2019s Philippine unit. \u201cOf course everyone is sad, but we have no choice. Every possible option had been studied.\u201d <o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 3pt; font-family: 'Arial Narrow'\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial Narrow'\">When Intel started building a factory to test and assemble semiconductors on a former pineapple plantation in General Trias in 1995, Maglalang was a housewife in a one-bedroom shack. <o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 3pt; font-family: 'Arial Narrow'\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 16pt; font-family: 'Arial Narrow'\">\u2018Silicon <st1:place w:st=\"on\">Valley East<\/st1:place>\u2019 <o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 3pt; font-family: 'Arial Narrow'\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial Narrow'\">By 2008, the community was thriving after Japanese electronics maker Toshiba Corp., <st1:country-region w:st=\"on\">U.S.<\/st1:country-region> mobile-phone chipmaker Cypress Semiconductor Corp. and <st1:country-region w:st=\"on\">Korea<\/st1:country-region>\u2019s Samsung Electronics Co. joined Intel in the <st1:placename w:st=\"on\">Gateway<\/st1:placename> <st1:placename w:st=\"on\">Business<\/st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st=\"on\">Park<\/st1:placetype>, 35 kilometers (22 miles) from <st1:place w:st=\"on\"><st1:city w:st=\"on\">Manila<\/st1:city><\/st1:place>. It was dubbed \u201cSilicon Valley East\u201d by then-President Fidel Ramos. <o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 3pt; font-family: 'Arial Narrow'\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial Narrow'\">Maglalang opened a small eatery in 1995 to feed workers building Intel\u2019s plant. Now, she and her husband also own a boarding house and a store selling shampoo and soap to the factory\u2019s employees. They earned enough to send three children to private school and expand their house to three bedrooms and two kitchens. <o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 3pt; font-family: 'Arial Narrow'\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial Narrow'\">\u201cWe were feeding around 150 people three times a day\u201d at one point, said Maglalang, who earns about 10,000 pesos ($207) per month renting out five rooms in the boarding house alone. \u201cThere were a lot of business opportunities that came up and we cornered them all.\u201d <o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 3pt; font-family: 'Arial Narrow'\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 16pt; font-family: 'Arial Narrow'\">Shuttle Rides <o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 3pt; font-family: 'Arial Narrow'\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial Narrow'\">The number of bakeries, banks, drugstores and other businesses operating in General Trias increased threefold to 2,729 last year from 903 in 1996, the local government says. <o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 3pt; font-family: 'Arial Narrow'\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial Narrow'\">Santa Clara, California-based Intel gave employees free meals, shuttle rides and computers, and sponsored trips to beaches, said Israel Ascano. He worked at the plant for more than a decade and earned 19,500 pesos a month. <o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 3pt; font-family: 'Arial Narrow'\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial Narrow'\">\u201cThose were the boom days,\u201d said Ascano, 36, who has been unemployed since being fired in October. Intel also dismissed his brother and sister-in-law when it cut about 900 General Trias jobs last year. \u201cIt\u2019s such a shock. We never expected Intel to shut down because they have always been generous.\u201d <o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 3pt; font-family: 'Arial Narrow'\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial Narrow'\">Intel has invested more than $1.5 billion in the <st1:country-region w:st=\"on\">Philippines<\/st1:country-region> since opening a factory in <st1:place w:st=\"on\"><st1:city w:st=\"on\">Manila<\/st1:city><\/st1:place> in 1974 and at one time employed more than 5,000 people in the country. It also generated 36,000 jobs indirectly, according to a study commissioned by the company in 2004. <o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 3pt; font-family: 'Arial Narrow'\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial Narrow'\">Maglalang, who once worked as a maid in the <st1:place w:st=\"on\">Middle East<\/st1:place>, is considering looking for work overseas again. <o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 3pt; font-family: 'Arial Narrow'\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial Narrow'\">\u201cAll my kids are in private school,\u201d she said. \u201cWhere will we get the money so they can finish?\u201d \u2013 ?<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 1 (Bloomberg) &#8212; Rosemarie Maglalang and her husband made a living out of housing and feeding Intel Corp. factory workers in the Philippines for the past 13 years. 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