{"id":1751,"date":"2013-08-31T09:22:39","date_gmt":"2013-08-31T03:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/news\/2013\/08\/31\/another-furniture-company-halts-production\/"},"modified":"2013-08-31T09:22:39","modified_gmt":"2013-08-31T03:52:39","slug":"another-furniture-company-halts-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/another-furniture-company-halts-production\/","title":{"rendered":"Another furniture company halts production"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GRAND RAPIDS &#8211; Hekman Furniture is stopping production in Grand Rapids, and 60 people are out of a job.<br \/>\n                        <!--adsense--><br \/>\n\t\t <!--more--><br \/>\nIn a statement, the company said it&#8217;s been a difficult decision. &#8220;This transition is dictated, among other reasons, by continued global competition and domestic excess capacity within the residential furniture industry and is not a reflection on the dedicated work force in Grand Rapids.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hekman&#8217;s main office will remain in Grand Rapids. They are working with federal and state agencies for job training and other benefits for\u00c2\u00a0all their affected workers.<\/p>\n<p>Other existing West Michigan facilities and in North Carolina will continue operation.<\/p>\n<p>24 Hour News 8 will have more information as it becomes available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GRAND RAPIDS &#8211; Hekman Furniture is stopping production in Grand Rapids, and 60 people are out of a job.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-furniture-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1751\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}