"naaaaaaa tolcha"
Posted on 03/17/2012 5:31:16 PM PDT by SteelToe
MUNCIE, Ind.—Jerry D. Bumpus Sr. was a member of the United Auto Workers union for four decades and earned as much as $28 an hour at a General Motors Co. GM -1.84%car-parts plant before accepting a bonus to retire at age 60 five years ago.
On a recent Saturday morning, Mr. Bumpus, wearing a black jacket and clutching his résumé, was one of several thousand people lining up to apply for jobs at a new Caterpillar Inc. plant that makes train locomotives here. Those jobs start at as low as $12 an hour plus benefits, and there is no union representing the workers.
"I'm able to adapt to that," says Mr. Bumpus, who hopes he can get the job to build up his scant retirement savings.
Things have changed in Muncie, a city of 70,000 where closures of auto-industry plants and other factories have left about one in five homes vacant. Jobless workers here and in many parts of the Rust Belt have lowered their expectations and become more flexible. At the same time, state politicians are fighting harder than ever to attract employers with lower taxes, streamlined regulation and other incentives. Companies like Caterpillar are eagerly exploiting both trends.
The politicians and workers are realizing that the battle for scarce jobs isn't just with Asia and the Sunbelt states. It also is with neighboring states and Canadian provinces in the North American industrial heartland.
(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...
"naaaaaaa tolcha"
Just yesterday a local Michigan factory voted against the Teamsters. As far as I know, the building hasn’t burned down yet.
>>Employees at Jackson’s Production Engineering Inc. vote against unionization<<
Just yesterday our governor signed the bill that ends the automatic deduction of union dues from paychecks of teachers and other school employees. On Wednesday he signed a bill that says grad students are not employees and cannot be unionized.
The Unions will be back over and over again. Ideally they would have to wait a set amount of time before they can return and try to establish the Union.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-investor/caterpillar-caw-strike-closeout-deal/article2345099/
“Electro-Motive shut down the southwestern Ontario plant this month and is moving the work to a plant in Indiana after locking out the Local 27 CAW hourly workers in a pay dispute.”
Time to get rid of the union parasites, from the lazy ass public workers to the non-functional few private union members.
They’re running into real problems including rebellion from within. Terry Bowman heads a group of conservative UAW members and testified against union political fundraising on capitol hill last month.
http://www.michigancapitolconfidential.com/16292
I had a Firebird that had the legendary Muncie M-22 rock crusher 4 speed transmission.
http://www.nastyz28.com/~copo/muncie.htm
this should be a stroll down memory lane for you
Hollywood does this each and every day. The are gypsy productions that move to the lowest taxes and regulations.
the recession would have finished off organized labor once and for all if obama had not been elected. it’s yet another unfortunate accomplishment of the obamites.
“cluthing his resume’. What, for the last 35 years you screwed fenders on a chevvy!! And that qualifies you for what, Mr. Bumpus? (Sunsa bitchin Bumpasus!!)
I just love that movie.
the POS had his snout in the GM trough up to his eyes for FORTY years and took (i'm sure) a very large buyout, and is now broke... and he thinks CAT will hire a 65 year old useless eater???
feh
““cluthing his resume’. What, for the last 35 years you screwed fenders on a chevvy!!”
Mu guess is that Mr. Buttkiss spent a bunch of his ill-gotten “retirement” on a new boat and other fun stuff, and now that his union (and of course the government and the banks) screwed him out of 30% or more of his retirement’s value (and managed to take his investment returns down to near zero), he’s forced to go back to work at 65 to make ends meet. Good luck Buppie, welcome to the cub.
If the shop had voted to go union, could the brothers move out of state or shut down the business legally? Since it is a private company, I would think they could, but with all the rules and regulations, I don’t have a clue.
How many times did you pull that Democrat lever Jer? Now you want to keep taking? When will you start “organizing the men?”
Time to make Wisconsin a “right to work” state as well.
“Getter done!”
Sounds just like the truck I drove when I worked at a summer camp back in the mid-1970s! Even the downshift synchomesh!
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