Rich Thomas wrote:
Interesting news on the new Boeing plant going in here.
--R
http://www.postandcourier.com/news/2009/dec/09/sc-may-benefit-from-supplier-plan/
So, the labor unions committed career suicide?
Reminds me of the union shop I worked in the summer I was 18.
The guys I worked with complained that they were inefficiently putting out crap,
but didn't seem inclined to actually work harder, and I got leaned on a bit
because I was putting out good parts too quickly until I slowed down. It was
almost as bad as the Brit factory stories of the 1970's, the only thing missing
was deliberate sabotage. (I guess it was more like the Soviet Union than
England, nobody cared to do any more than they absolutely had to)
Soon after, the company (Johnson Controls by then) told the union how far wages
would have to go down to get the bottom line out of the red, and refused to
negotiate any more than that for the new labor contract.
The union went on strike, and Johnson closed the factory, because they were
unwilling to run a factory with negative profit and the union was unwilling to
do anything that would result in actual profit. I drove past it this afternoon,
still empty. I think the 25th anniversary of the plant closing was this year.
Mitch.
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