"I think it's certainly on people's minds, the future of the company, the stock," the manufacturing employee said.
The company pays its manufacturing employees an average of $12 per hour.
The company has 285 manufacturing employees over three shifts and 100 support staff.
The last 346 manufacturing employees were laid off.
The company currently has about 50,350 manufacturing employees in the two countries and Mexico.
The severance plan does not affect the 4,000 salaried manufacturing employees.
It expects to add more than 200 manufacturing employees at the plant.
Another resident of the same mobile-home park, a manufacturing employee, was elected town selectman.
As for workers, the government says the average manufacturing employee worked 4.2 hours of overtime a week in May.
Their problems are still small, compared with the devastation succeeding slowdowns have caused blue-collar manufacturing employees in the region.
