Wow. Something I finally agree with you about.
Unions killed my hometown. Neither unions nor their sympathizers will get any respect from me.
Posted on 03/11/2005 1:16:26 PM PST by ladtx
Associated Press
Boeing-Wichita Issues 8,100 Layoff Notices
Friday March 11, 4:00 pm ET
The 60-day notices went to 5,200 hourly and 2,900 salaried production and service workers, said Boeing spokesman Dick Ziegler. Engineers have not yet received pink slips.
The notices are part of the separation and re-employment process required as the Chicago-based aerospace leader transfers assets to Toronto-based Onex. Workers were asked to sign waivers allowing release of their personnel information to be considered for new employment with Onex.
Onex is forming a separate aircraft company in Wichita, which it has temporarily named Midwestern Aircraft Systems until a more permanent name is determined, said Ziegler, who also received a layoff notice.
In a memo sent Wednesday to employees, Boeing executive Jeff Turner assured employees that receiving a notice is not reason to panic or to assume they would not have a job with Onex.
Onex agreed last month to buy Boeing's massive commercial aircraft plant in Wichita, plus other work sites in Tulsa and McAlester, Okla., for $900 million cash and the assumption of $300 million debt. The sale is part of Boeing's strategy to focus its commercial aircraft business on design and final assembly.
The DC-9 is a Douglas aircraft company plane. Boeing did use the 717 moniker for one of it's planes...I can't remember which.
Businessmen take risks, work their ass off and make enormous sacrifices to create an enterprise. Not to mention putting up with endless government-moron bullshit and paperwork.
Union thug parasites then come along to attempt to extort and sponge off the enterprise created by the Businessman's work and risk-taking.
Greasy, lazy, corrupt, violent, worthless union thugs. They can kiss my ass.
You said a lot without saying a thing. My career working for a unionized company didn't reflect any of the things you mention.
I am sure it was union members who dreamed up the WorldCom fiasco. Let's not forget to mention Tyco or Enron either.
Have you ever met a union thug? I didn't in thirty years in a union. I did meet a lot of hard working, intelligent people who were concerned about the financial health of the employer. I also met a lot of men who would jerk the slack out of you a&^ if you weren't getting the job done.
Peer pressure did a fine job of keeping people on task even in the rain, snow, ice, mud or blistering sun of a storm break any time of the year.
When you happen to pull you head out you can kiss you own back side.
"You can't do that, that's not your job."
"I can't do that, it's not my job."
"I'm on break, don't talk to me."
"We're filing a grievance." (I'd go for grievances just for sport.)
"We need more money, or we walk."
Screw 'em. I've refused to even accept bids from or even talk to union shops for over 15 years, and life has improved as a result.
Lazy extortionists.
Wow. Something I finally agree with you about.
Unions killed my hometown. Neither unions nor their sympathizers will get any respect from me.
Right up front. I don't believe a word you posted. I keep seeing the same phrased posted, almost like urban legends. It's has to be true if it is repeated enough.
That must explain the heights of popularity being achieved by unions these days. Helps to explain why they lose vote after vote. Nobody ever has bad experiences, such as mine, with unions.
And if we say it did, unions will make sure we sleep with da fishes, right? Or is that just an urban legend?
Yea, in 1976, when I was 25 years old, driving a GMC Asto 95, with a GM V8 and 36' Freuhauf trailer.
I crossed a picket line to have my rig weighed.
As I was unlocking the 5th wheel and cranking down the trailer's landing gear, a union thug walked up to me, unannounced, punched me in the nose, breaking my nose.
In court, after I had him charged with assault, he grew a beard and let his hair grow longer over the 6 months before their was trial.
The defense lawyer tried to have the case dismiss because I did not identify the person correctly. Fortunately the judge saw through that charade.
What I learned from this experience was if you need violence to get your point across, your point ain't worth a shit.
Thank you for setting the record straight.
In addition, all of the laws mandating payment for overtime, minimum wage, etc., violated the U.S. Constitution:
Amendment V
"nor shall private property be taken for public use without just compensation."
No. We owe a debt of gratitude to globalist, multi-national corporations and executives like Ken Lay and Bernie Ebbers. They're always looking out for the little guy. They're our friends.
/sarcastic rant
Unions have also made the U.S. auto industry totally uncompetitive with Japanese and Korean auto companies, destroying thousands of factory and office jobs in the process.
Unions =Can't fire incompetant people no matter how bad they are.
It was higher productivity that allowed those things. Countries with low GNP per capita tend not to have them.
And more recently they have brought us the outsourcing of much of our manufacturing capability - from steel to electronics, and everything in between.
And they have saddled us with government enforced Davis-Bacon "prevailing wages", which make all of our government projects cost about 30% more than they should.
Take your unions and shove them.
and non alcholic
China or India.... ??
The 717 is being built in Long Beach - it was the last derivative from the DC-9 line (it actually was called the MD-95 until Boeing took over the line). It was recently canceled and they are finishing up the remaining orders as we speak. This was one little hotrod of an airplane.
Ah, the Social(ist) wing of the conservative movement speaks.
I'll see your Pat Buchanan and Sam Francis and raise you an Ayn Rand...
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