Maytag employees have known for more than a year that their jobs would end, ever since Whirlpool Corp. announced in May 2006 that it would close Maytag’s corporate headquarters and the local factory ...

NEWTON, Iowa Like his uncle, his grandfather and many of their neighbors, Arie Versendaal spent decades working at the Maytag factory here, turning coils of steel into washing machines. When the plant ...

NEWTON, Iowa (AP) -- The last washers and dryers were rolling off Maytag assembly lines here Thursday and the 550 workers who built them were preparing to leave the 2 million-square-foot factory for ...

NEWTON, Iowa - The last washers and dryers rolled off Maytag assembly lines here Thursday and the 550 workers who built them left the 2 million-square-foot factory for the last time, ending a century ...

The factory's closing occurs 100 years after the development of Fred Maytag's first washing machine in Newton. It was in 1907 that he made and marketed his first wooden-tub washing machine to generate ...

NEWTON, Iowa — The last washers and dryers rolled off Maytag assembly lines here Thursday and the 550 workers who built them left the 2 million-square-foot factory for the last time, ending a century ...