Caterpillar: Goodbye Illinois, Hello Indiana’s Right To Work (Update: Georgia)

National Right To Work Committee ^ | Feb 17, 2012 | NRTW Committee Staff

[RegulatorCountry]

Maybe they were trying to send a message to the Washington State jamokes that think businesses are there for government and labor unions to pilfer?

There are several centrally located cities with large airports in right-to-work states that would have sent a better one.

[RedMDer]

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[Calvin Locke]

True, but Chicago does have a higher "cultural appeal" than most other places, Crook County, and talk-show drivel notwithstanding.

When IL decided to tax itself into misery, I thought Boeing might regret its choice of HQ, but then I remembered Obama...

IL would not have been my first choice if taxes were a consideration, even before they raised them.

[Paladin2]

"Maybe they were trying to send a message to the Washington State jamokes that think businesses are there for government and labor unions to pilfer? "

Then why move to Illinois, much less Chicago? They wanted to be in an expensive, corrupt gun free zone?

[bfree]

Yes something changed. They announced the site in Athens, GA. for the plant, as the article says.

[RegulatorCountry]

Different plant, by my reading. Athens, GA 4,200 employees. The one Wilmington, NC is or was in the running to land, 1,400 employees, for manufacturing formerly done in Japan. Sounded like two different proposals to me, maybe I’m mistaken.

[RegulatorCountry]

Egos have gotten so fragile in the executive suite that they demand a “world class” city for their edification and entertainment. Such cities are nearly all under leftist control. I still recall F. Ross Johnson rolling into town here and ripping RJR-Nabisco up by the roots because his wife thought Winston-Salem was too bucolic. That, after building the most ridiculous Disney-esque mansion on one of the best, old streets in the best part of town. It still looks like an overblown gift shop in some tourist trap town, imho. Seashells embedded in the stucco, all sorts of frippery and kitkat. No accounting for taste, I guess, no matter what the wherewithal.

[taildragger]

I said here about a week ago between the 2 Nuke Plants being OK'd and the Dredging of the Savannah Port for Deep Water Vessels, Georgia is going to be the place to be for business in the next 5 to 10 years.

For Cat, low cost 24/7 electricity and a deep water port to ship these smaller tractors etc from.

I know a fireman from "Detwaa" who is looking outside of MI for jobs, as many states are willing to take them because they are highly trained given all the fires they put out. Georgia maybe gentle on the Fireman's mind....

[redangus]

At least get your facts straight. The toll road was not sold it was leased for 99 years with a lot of strings attached for over $3B dollars. Money that has been used to fund highway projects around the State, employing hundreds if not thousands of people in good high paying jobs. For the first time in decades the toll road itself is being upgraded at no expense to the taxpayers of Indiana.

[MasterGunner01]

The valid business reasoning for the Boeing Corporate move from Washington to Chicago, IL was due to its CEO, Harry Stonecipher. Harry wanted to be near his daughter who lived in Chicago and he didn't like the four hour trips each way on the company jet. He got the Boeing Board to authorize the move.

Stonecipher retired from Boeing in 2002, but was hired back by the BoD when President Phil Condit left the company. When word of an affair between Stonecipher and a married 45-year old VP surfaced in 2005, the Boeing BoD asked for and received his resignation. Stonecipher’s wife of 50 years, Joan, filed for divorce shortly after the affair was made public. The female VP was fired and her husband subsequently filed for divorce. The former Mrs. Stonecipher got 50 percent of Harry's pension, perks, and property in the divorce. Here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Stonecipher