Not so -- at it's highest employment, Kodak had about 15% of the jobs in
Rochester.

Rochester is also the home of Xerox, B&L, Paycheck, Gleason works
(gears) GM (Delco and Roch Carbs (now renamed)), Case Hoyt (printing)
and several smaller printers. Hickey Freeman (clothing) ANd Corning
build (and quickly sold) a fiber optics plant. Perhaps other locals can
add more

All fed by hundreds of small machine/job shops

I believe the biggest employer today is Strong health Care, followed by
Wegmans (regional supermarket chain)

WaIIy wrote:

On Thu, 4 Mar 2004 07:23:26 -0500 (EST), "Harry Krause"
wrote:


The unemployment rate in the six-county Rochester area jumped to 7
percent, representing about 39,600 people looking for work, according to
statistics released Wednesday by the state Department of Labor.



Gee, Rochester is a one industry town. Kodak was slow to respond and is
going down the ****ter.
I'm surprised the rate isn't 40% there.