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Mercury Marine union in Wis. rejects concessions (8000 jobs lost) Mercury Marine moving to OK
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| 8-23-09
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Posted on 08/23/2009 3:10:52 PM PDT by Indy Pendance
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To: albie
In college I obtained summer employment as a machinist in a California plant. The IAM struck two time in three years. The company stated if the IAM pulled another walk-out they would close the plant and move to Illinois. The IAM struck, the plant closed, I lost a job I badly needed.
To: Secret Agent Man
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The union people will wish they voted the other way soon." Naw! They'll just wait'll their kids starve to death and blame the company.
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posted on
08/23/2009 6:27:16 PM PDT
by
editor-surveyor
(The beginning of the O'Bummer administration looks a lot like the end of the Nixon administration)
To: MediaMole
No, you said, If the concessions are deep enough, you probably make more on unemployment than if you worked. Upon further review, I did say that and it could be true, but is probably not. It depends on the depth of the concessions, the fringe benefits vs. medicaid, and food stamps and unemployment.
However, it is unlikely concessions would force wages below 20,000 on an after tax basis and I am likely in error for saying the above quotation.
I will stand by my other statement which is "depending on the concessions, you are probably a chump for working"
To: Indy Pendance
Price comes sown, quality goes up!!
To: kcvl
With Card Check the jobs would have gone to China....
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posted on
08/23/2009 6:31:32 PM PDT
by
Shady
(The Fairness Doctrine is ANYTHING but fair!!!!)
To: Eaker; Joe Boucher
If the good folks of Wisconsin want to work the fry line at Wendys instead of having a great manufacturing job, so be it. Please allow me to offer a point of view from someone who lives 30 min. from Fond du Lac. These poor morons will not be working at Wendy's. Wendy's will be closing their Fond du Lac store as NO ONE in Fond du Lac will be able to afford to eat at Wendy's. Just about every other major employer in that area has already left. Mercury was holding the town together.
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posted on
08/23/2009 6:32:40 PM PDT
by
Blackhawk
(God said it, I believe it, That settles it.)
To: Joe Boucher
Families in Oklahoma will appreciate the jobs.
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posted on
08/23/2009 6:35:54 PM PDT
by
Tulsa Ramjet
("If not now, when?" "Because it's judgment that defeats us.")
To: Charles Martel
Well, what color are Mercury outboards, hmm? Well I'm guessing black, but the only reason I'm guessing black is because back in the early 80's my dad bought a old boat with a old mercury and it was white and many people back then said it most be a really old one cause they had never seen a white one before. I know that wasn't what you were thinking but I just had to throw that into this thread.
To: Indy Pendance
What is happening? Yankees in Wisconcon. Lost their jobs to willing native americans in Oklahoma. But at least they did not go to China..Yet. It is a good thing Merc is not such evil Capitalist they went to China.
To: LibraTango
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posted on
08/23/2009 6:39:23 PM PDT
by
blam
To: Indy Pendance; TheConservativeParty
Thanks for the replies.
Have Belling and/or McKenna talked about this?!! This is absolutely insane.
I know they have both talked about Doyle and Mercury Marine, but since I don’t hear their shows everyday (I am south of the Cheddar Curtain in SSC—the Soviet State of Chicago), I don’t hear them daily.
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posted on
08/23/2009 6:40:01 PM PDT
by
Freedom56v2
("If you think healthcare is expensive now, just wait till it is free! "~ PJ O'Rourke)
To: All
The soon to be unemployed:
![](http://cmsimg.fdlreporter.com/apps/pbcsi.dll/bilde?NewTbl=1&Avis=U0&Dato=20090823&Kategori=FON01&Lopenr=908230814&Ref=PH&Item=14&Maxw=600&Maxh=500)
Photo from press conference with union representatives at the union hall in Fond du Lac, Wis., after Mercury Marine union employees voted no, Sunday, Aug. 23, 2009, on the issue of accepting the company's final negotiated offer of reduced wages and benefits. Mercury announced today it will shut down manufacturing in Fond du Lac and consolidate operations at it's Stillwater, Okla., plant in the next 24-36 months.
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posted on
08/23/2009 6:41:19 PM PDT
by
TSgt
(I long for Norman Rockwell's America.)
To: Indy Pendance
Union leaders did not immediately release Sunday's tally but said the vote was "overwhelming" to reject what the company called its final offer. Nose: meet face...
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posted on
08/23/2009 6:44:36 PM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: Indy Pendance
The scene in Nat’l Lampoon's Vegas vacation comes to mind.
The Dealer tells Clark Griswald that he can split the $$$, and he will go out back and beat him over the head with a baseball bat. The result would be the same, only better for Clark.
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posted on
08/23/2009 6:49:21 PM PDT
by
Radix
(Obama represents CHAINS for posterity.)
To: albie
"Union thugs putting yet another company out of business."Pardon me while I correct that statement, since I read the post:
"Union thugs putting yet another company in the South."
LOL!
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posted on
08/23/2009 6:49:22 PM PDT
by
Redbob
(W.W.J.B.D.: "What Would Jack Bauer Do?")
To: Indy Pendance
Yeah, but the problem is those people migrate to non-Union states like VA and try to change it to what they left. Stay in Wisconsin, Mercury workers!
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posted on
08/23/2009 6:49:33 PM PDT
by
EDINVA
(A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul -- G. B. Shaw)
To: AdmSmith; Berosus; bigheadfred; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; ...
Looks like it’s not just the wind that’s sweeping down the Plains.
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posted on
08/23/2009 6:50:43 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
To: Jean S
The headline and story don’t match .. headling says 8000 jobs lost; story says union represents 850 workers .. could 7K at that plant be non-union ?? Hard to imagine.
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posted on
08/23/2009 6:51:24 PM PDT
by
EDINVA
(A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul -- G. B. Shaw)
To: MikeWUSAF
Hope those union idiots are staying in Wisconsin and aren’t allowed to transfer. Let ‘em wallow in what they’ve created for themselves.
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posted on
08/23/2009 6:51:58 PM PDT
by
RasterMaster
(The only way to open a LIEberal mind is with a brick!)
To: MikeWUSAF
"The soon to be unemployed:"Do you see ANYone in that picture that's less than 20% over what you might call their ideal weight?
Does this suggest a mind-set amongst them?
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posted on
08/23/2009 6:52:15 PM PDT
by
Redbob
(W.W.J.B.D.: "What Would Jack Bauer Do?")
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