Too bad. I've been buying Oneida for 17 years. Let's face it if you have any kind of factory job in this country no matter what your supervisor says you should be preparing to do something else.
Maybe a good job in IT. Uh..., nevermind.
Grocery market jobs are by the way being outsourced to immigrant labor who will be happy to work for less than seasoned American workers making $18.00 per hour. This is what the unions are doing to us.
I live only a couple of miles away from the Oneida factory in Sherrill...this will be a hard blow for our county ...many people in my town depended on Oneida Ltd. for their livelihoods..Madison county is very rural, with only a few factories spead out throughout the county...the closest places to work are Syracuse and Utica..and many places have already closed down or are planning to close.
We do however have the Oneida Indian casino that rakes in untold revenues and does not pay taxes..they have taken over our gas stations and have bought up huge amounts of land which are now automatically tax free. Our taxes have tripled in the 10 years we have been here.
Losing the Oneida factory is going to be hard...and I pray for the families who depended on Oneida Ltd. for their paychecks.
No, you mean, "No matter what your union steward says." Union interference with day to day operations and the constant threat of work stoppage and job actions coupled with the cost to the company of union personnel doing union business make the costs of doing business in a US unionized environment simply too high!
If we are talking 400 union employees, my bet is that at least 8 and maybe 16 are paid for by the company but do nothing but "union business." Add the management time that is necessary to meet with the union hacks while they do union business and you have a cost burden that outweighs every productivity advantage the US workers have.