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Story summary
- Whirlpool Corporation will eliminate 341 jobs at its Iowa plant on March 9 as it shifts production to Mexico.
- Union officials say the move follows a pattern of corporate abandonment and seeks cheaper labor.
- Employees report inadequate information about the layoffs.
- Whirlpool Corporation maintains the cuts are part of a modernization plan.
- Union representatives criticize the layoffs as detrimental to American workers and contrary to trade agreements protecting jobs.
