Here's a local outsourcing story with a twist [1]:

The job cuts are part of an ongoing downsizing of the company's Blount County operations and transfer of production to a Ceramaspeed plant in Monterrey, Mexico.

Some "manual operations" have already been shifted to Mexico, and "automated production" operations will be moved to the Monterrey facility later this year.

So now we're outsourcing robot jobs, too? Do Mexican robots work cheaper than American robots? Have American robot unions priced themselves out of the U.S. labor market?