Posted on 09/29/2009 1:22:51 PM PDT by The Magical Mischief Tour
Edited on 09/29/2009 3:01:11 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Peterbilt Corp. permanently closed its truck plant in Nashville.
(Excerpt) Read more at newschannel5.com ...
That’s some recovery !!
they wont be holding their signs anymore...
Does that mean that all the employees can thank Mike Pardue and the UAW for the loss of their jobs?
Paging Captain Obvious.
>> United Auto Workers Union Local 1832 President Mike Pardue said the Texas plant is nonunion and the UAW believes that’s the main reason the Madison facility is the one being closed.
And they say union workers are stupid. This one gets it!
Y’all just come on to Texas and get you a new Peterbilt!
Union members can think, who knew?
“Does that mean that all the employees can thank Mike Pardue and the UAW for the loss of their jobs? “
Yes it does.
I hope you enjoy the benefits that you pay to the union bosses and the millions of dollars you've given to the democrat party.
bwahahahahahaha.... ESAD...
Both states have nop income taxes.
Is this all a union problem?
Another American business driven to bankruptcy by unions with their socialist masters pulling the strings behind the scenes.
Unions are scum.
I didn’t read far enough.
It sure is a union problem.
This is another reason why Card Check needs never to see the light of day.
That is exactly what it means. The UAW killed its Golden Goose.
The unions DID destroy this plant. Heck, the have a union strike-shack built near one of the entrances. There have been TWO very long strikes in the past 3 or 4 years that brought the production to a virtual standstill. They stiuck themselves out of a job.
It is no big deal for Peterbilt to move all the production to Texas and build them there because this facility was strictly an assembly plant.
Oh good. Glad to hear that.
Too bad for the Tennessee workers, but they have their local union thugs to thank for that.
Semper fi Texas!
LOL! They struck themselves out of a job.
Dumb ba*tards. Getting the Hope & Change they can deserve.
The UAW are parasites like ACORN.
LOL! I guess the folks in Texas actually build Peterbuilts versus sitting on lawn chairs holding strike signs.
Who in their right mind would be on strike heading into Obama’s Depression?
I mean are they INSANE! How stupid can you be? People would kill for those jobs.
I worked there for exactly one week right out of college (they promised me an engineering job and then put me on the line inspecting partially assembled cabs and sleepers), and they were running two shifts and producing 92 trucks a day. Last I heard a few months ago they were down to 35 trucks a day.
The Peterbilt plant here makes good product, and works WITH management to keep jobs, be innovative. Texas works. That’s why Toyota is closing its CA plant and moving the jobs and product to the plant in San Antonio.
We’ve opted to rebuild since hubby is shop-bound for 8-12 weeks, but thanks for the offer.
“Vessels said (with tongue squarely in cheek)a labor dispute that stopped production at the plant last June had nothing to do with the closure”
The Madison facility was pretty cool.
I’m a PACCAR supplier and got a walk through during the implementation of supplier line sequencing.
No two trucks were the same and all of the customer parts/configurations were sequenced to the chassis. Pretty cool to see the cabs coming out of the paint room. Some of those truckers had some peculiar taste in color and design. You could probably pick which ones were driver by OTR serial killers.
Ya think?
Yup. Why would Toyota stay in Calif especially with the parasitic UAW. The UAW killed Detroit.
I wish Ford would move it’s plants to non-union states.
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My sister-in-law will be VERY upset.
She wears those Gloria Peterbuilt jeans.
they wont be holding their signs anymore...
Don’t be so sure. I’ve seen Union pickets in Michigan outside of businesses that closed or were sold years prior.
Eastern Airlines in Miami. The company was dead and buried for 5 years and they still have a small picket line.
The UAW will probably picket the closed plant annually for old times sake.
They really picket the dead? I thought only ex-wives would come after a dead guy.
Oh really DUH; and how's that hope and change workin' for ya?
IIRC, Peterbilt locked them out. I can’t remember the exact beef, but I’m sure it was more UAW BS.
So they became permanent gate squatters.
Now they’ll never again have to worry about paying too high a share for benefits, not enough time off, working overtime, only getting $28/hour as a high school graduate...
Hope and change, baby.
Ping
OK, I’ll say it:
“Old truckers never die, they just get a new Peterbilt.”
I go past Peterbilt going to Donelson a lot,hate to
see the plant close,but I sure don`t blame the company
leaving town.Yeah,looked like they struck about as much
as they worked
Party on UAW idiots,gonna be some “change” in those pockets now
Regards,
Raven6
Yes it does.
But they won't.
I wonder if the UAW idiots will continue their strike now that they killed the golden goose.
I have a business near there.
The workers there have been on strike almost continuously for over 12 years
“United Auto Workers Union Local 1832 President Mike Pardue said the Texas plant is nonunion and the UAW believes that’s the main reason the Madison facility is the one being closed.”
Just think this schmuck figured that out all by himself. Maybe he was attending Basic Logic 101 classes during this last strike.
http://www.collinsreport.net/2008/12/16/auto-farm-the-uaw%e2%80%99s-future-in-orwell%e2%80%99s-book/
me too..just a few days ago I drove up to go to Chef’s over off Conference-Long Hollow and drove by on Myatt.
amazing isn’t it?
Good was to get dead Democrat voters, I am told.
Just add the Nashville plant to the long list of union plants that the unions eventually ran out of business: Steel industry, textile industry, car industry (but for the government bail out), etc. Unions are evil and have no place in our free market economy. They would not exist if our government did not have union laws that forced businesses to deal with them.
I`m gonna have to past there tomorrow and check...there
is a Country Buffet to eat at close by
Hee Hee,they had there brains scrambled smelling smoke
from staying warm over those fires in the barells
Hey, just because a person’s dead, should they lose all their rights?
“This is another reason why Card Check needs never to see the light of day.”
Not only that but states need to pass right to work laws.
Old truckers never die; they just get a new Peter built. Er, Peterbilt.
I think you mean Captain Oblivious, zero is oblivious to any kind of American work ethic, assembly line or production. The Government is here to save us all.
Those idiots sacrificed their good jobs on the altar of the UAW.
Hope you’re still doing well, Warddady.
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