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As a former staff employee in a union tire factory my opinion is biased. I saw the union VOTE FOR the loss of over 1000 jobs because they did not like the idea of additional pay (piece work) above the standard production rate. The company offered an ADDITIONAL 5 dollar per tire built in a 12 hour shift after the standard was met. We had people that finished their quota in ten hours yet had to sit for two hours waiting for the shift to end. They could have earned 150 dollars PLUS a day if the union had allowed the piece work.
The union vote ended up in the company shutting down production of passenger tires at the plant. Close to 1000 people (Staff & union workers) lost their jobs. Personally I am glad it happened because I moved on to greener pastures and enjoy my job much more. Many of the guys working there were making 24 dollars an hour in production occupations had to figure out how to replace that income in a ten dollar an hour world.....
The union destroyed that plant. They continued to produce truck/bus tires at the plant with a NEW union contract at 4 dollars an hour less for existing workers and new hires starting at 13 dollars an hour.
As a former staff employee in a union tire factory my opinion is biased. I saw the union VOTE FOR the loss of over 1000 jobs because they did not like the idea of additional pay (piece work) above the standard production rate. The company offered an ADDITIONAL 5 dollar per tire built in a 12 hour shift after the standard was met. We had people that finished their quota in ten hours yet had to sit for two hours waiting for the shift to end. They could have earned 150 dollars PLUS a day if the union had allowed the piece work.
The union vote ended up in the company shutting down production of passenger tires at the plant. Close to 1000 people (Staff & union workers) lost their jobs. Personally I am glad it happened because I moved on to greener pastures and enjoy my job much more. Many of the guys working there were making 24 dollars an hour in production occupations had to figure out how to replace that income in a ten dollar an hour world.....
The union destroyed that plant. They continued to produce truck/bus tires at the plant with a NEW union contract at 4 dollars an hour less for existing workers and new hires starting at 13 dollars an hour.
That's called a race to the bottom until American workers make as little as the lowest foreign worker. It's also why corporate profits are breaking records while worker pay is stagnant.
Most important lesson to be learned here, is that when huge union demands are destroying your business, the way to get rid of them is to declare bankruptcy and shut down. Then you can reopen under new management... rid of the union thugs.
BTW, were you wondering why Obama etc. bailed out GM instead of letting it go bankrupt? They would have reopened a short time afterward, you know, under new management. And gone right back to making cars, with the same employees if they wanted the jobs.
But the unions would never have voted massively for Obama again.
Unions Force Twinkies Out of Business, Twinkies Re-Opens With 1,500 New Hires… None Union
by Eric Odom
Published: April 27, 2013 | 90 Comments
Dear union thugs, let this be a lesson.
The company that bought the Twinkie, HoHo and Ding Dong brands out of bankruptcy is gearing up to reopen plants and hire workers, but it won’t be using union labor.
Hostess Brands — Metropoulos & Co. and Apollo Global Management’s APO -0.58% new incarnation of the baking company that liquidated in Chapter 11 — is reopening four bakeries in the next eight to 10 weeks, aiming to get Twinkie-deprived consumers the classic snack cake starting in July.
Chief Executive C. Dean Metropoulos said the company will pump $60 million in capital investments into the plants between now and September and aims to hire at least 1,500 workers. But they won’t be represented by unions, including the one whose nationwide strike sparked the 86-year-old company’s decision to shut down in November.
When you make unrealistic demands and force companies to shut down, don’t expect the company to re-open with arms wide open to your ilk.
Well that is the company who bought them, nothing like paying workers less to do more work. It is the new American Way.
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