"Leaning into the Hurricane"
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Gone are about half of the 2,300 jobs that, for decades, supported families in this blue-collar town.
York is a model of efficiency that Harley wants to replicate at all of its factories, including Menomonee Falls and Tomahawk, where the new manufacturing system will eliminate several hundred jobs but will lower costs and make the plants more responsive to changes in the motorcycle marketplace.
JMHO
#3
So now when major problems pop up on new model year bikes, the MOCO can blame everything on the automated plant that built your bike. Problem solved.,,
#4
This should make those whiners happy that union jobs are disappearing
Those good paying jobs that had a pension at the end of the tunnel created the 'working class' we know today. Those jobs are disappearing at an alarming rate and not because it makes sense. They're disappearing because companies now have more conservative government officials changing laws to crush collective bargaining. Bigger profits for shareholders is more important that workers making decent wages. Harley isn't stupid and slowly eliminate the older workers in favor of the lower paid (without benefits) Should really help with quality control. Someday some of you anti union weasels will reap your own benefits when it comes time to actually try and find a job that pays enough to put food on the table and make house payments and utility payments. Good luck because you're the modern day Jonas. Take your friends job for less and soon enough you and your friends are sweeping walmart floors.
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Those good paying jobs that had a pension at the end of the tunnel created the 'working class' we know today. Those jobs are disappearing at an alarming rate and not because it makes sense. They're disappearing because companies now have more conservative government officials changing laws to crush collective bargaining. Bigger profits for shareholders is more important that workers making decent wages. Harley isn't stupid and slowly eliminate the older workers in favor of the lower paid (without benefits) Should really help with quality control. Someday some of you anti union weasels will reap your own benefits when it comes time to actually try and find a job that pays enough to put food on the table and make house payments and utility payments. Good luck because you're the modern day Jonas. Take your friends job for less and soon enough you and your friends are sweeping walmart floors.
LOL another Kool Aid Drinker Vote Obama Vote Prosperity
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Those good paying jobs that had a pension at the end of the tunnel created the 'working class' we know today. Those jobs are disappearing at an alarming rate and not because it makes sense. They're disappearing because companies now have more conservative government officials changing laws to crush collective bargaining. Bigger profits for shareholders is more important that workers making decent wages. Harley isn't stupid and slowly eliminate the older workers in favor of the lower paid (without benefits) Should really help with quality control. Someday some of you anti union weasels will reap your own benefits when it comes time to actually try and find a job that pays enough to put food on the table and make house payments and utility payments. Good luck because you're the modern day Jonas. Take your friends job for less and soon enough you and your friends are sweeping walmart floors.
Instead of crying that businesses don't care about workers and profits are their primary concern, go out and start your own business. Then the profits can be yours. But most people don't have what it takes. That's why there are more employees than employers. There's a lot less to risk in being an employee.
If you're an employee of an existing business, that business owes you nothing beyond whatever you contracted for, i.e., wages, vacations, insurance, etc., when you took the job. If they default on any of those items you contracted for when you accepted the employment, then you have a legitimate beef, but a job for life was not part of your contract when you took the job. A business cannot be expected to remain in the stone-age and forgo efficiency improvements just so they can retain more employees. If they do so, the long-term result will be no business, and no jobs.
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Watch that Capitalistic Mentality will get you on Obama's watch list.... No really Watch Guy is correct Business are only in business to provide cradle to Grave Jobs and 100% Free Health Care, 100% Match 401K and Full Unpaid Retirement Benefits to all the Workers of America illegal or not....
That was Sarcasm,
I sure as hell don't like the shenanigans going on right now but I sure as hell don't want to call you Comrade....
Oh **** did not realize he was Canadian forget it you would be better off discussing quantum physics 101 with Forest Gump than politics with a Canadian Socialists
That was Sarcasm,
I sure as hell don't like the shenanigans going on right now but I sure as hell don't want to call you Comrade....
Oh **** did not realize he was Canadian forget it you would be better off discussing quantum physics 101 with Forest Gump than politics with a Canadian Socialists
Last edited by Iron Butt Springer; 04-13-2012 at 05:19 AM.
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Companies certainly aren't in business to create jobs. But the rest of us weren't born just to work ourselves to death for low pay either- so the struggle goes on as it always has. But whose side are you on and why ? That's all you can figure out.
I've been in both sides. it's tough to run a business, but I always tried to pay employees well and treat them with some respect- jussayin. P.S. I think my bike might be a lemon :-(
I've been in both sides. it's tough to run a business, but I always tried to pay employees well and treat them with some respect- jussayin. P.S. I think my bike might be a lemon :-(
Last edited by Blackfly; 04-13-2012 at 06:39 AM.
#10
Cant Legislate Life to be fair... Communism does not work.... Why not scrutinize Hollywood and the insane salaries entertainers get... Eve more grotesque Sports A guy pitching a Baseball getting millions a year.... Michael J0rd0n gets some insane amount of Money from N1ke every year... No moral outrage there ever... Going to a Movie for 13.50 is ok or a ball game for 45.00.... These are the upper 1% of this country who pay very little in taxes why the hell do you think they kiss every democrat politicians ***.. So there left on the do not screw over list....
Last edited by Iron Butt Springer; 04-13-2012 at 06:52 AM.