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Mercury Marine Managers Sue Over Unpaid Bonuses
JSOnline ^ | September 18, 2009 | John Schmid

Posted on 09/19/2009 4:58:36 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin

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Hmmmm....I get to keep my union job and not have to move to Oklahoma, but d@mmit, I want my bonus, too!
1 posted on 09/19/2009 4:58:37 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
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To: Jean S

Ping!


2 posted on 09/19/2009 4:58:51 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

100 managers??

Doesn’t that sounds a lot.


3 posted on 09/19/2009 5:00:02 PM PDT by GeronL (http://libertyfic.proboards.com ............. http://tyrannysentinel.blogspot.com)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Dumb company should have moved to OK. I do not like their engines.


4 posted on 09/19/2009 5:00:08 PM PDT by Frantzie (Do we want ACORN running America's healthcare?)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
Gee in the old days we only got bonuses if the Company Made money!!The Marine business has been hit harder than I have ever seen in my Life and these Democrat Idiots want Free money!
5 posted on 09/19/2009 5:03:38 PM PDT by Cheetahcat (Zero the Wright kind of Racist! We are in a state of War with Democrats)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

I heard a radio report about this earlier today. What are these idiots thinking?! Their jobs were saved.


6 posted on 09/19/2009 5:05:47 PM PDT by Jean S
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I get to keep my union job and not have to move to Oklahoma, but d@mmit, I want my bonus, too!

These are managers suing, not union members.

7 posted on 09/19/2009 5:14:15 PM PDT by Graybeard58 ( Selah.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
I don't know if Managers are Union. Most places they are salaried.
8 posted on 09/19/2009 5:19:52 PM PDT by BallyBill (Serial Hit-N-Run poster)
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To: Jean S

“What are these idiots thinking?! Their jobs were saved.”

No kidding! I’d be kissing the ground and thanking God for my many blessings, versus suing for more money.


9 posted on 09/19/2009 5:22:07 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
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To: Frantzie

Have you had a problem with their engines? We have a Mercruiser 5.0 and really like it.


10 posted on 09/19/2009 5:24:29 PM PDT by Arizona Carolyn
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
I don't know Diana, I think they will get that plant shut down yet. I'm glad I don't actually live in Fon du Lac. I don't think my blood pressure could handle it. It is bad enough being 40 min. away.
11 posted on 09/19/2009 5:25:43 PM PDT by Blackhawk (God said it, I believe it, That settles it.)
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To: Arizona Carolyn

Most people I know with outboards like Yamaha’s. I know someone that had Honda’s too. The old Johnsons were good in their day.


12 posted on 09/19/2009 5:28:10 PM PDT by Frantzie (Do we want ACORN running America's healthcare?)
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To: Graybeard58

What’s the difference if it’s going to harm the company that BEAT the Unionistas and saved the managers’ jobs?

If there was a contract signed that they would get bonuses, that’s one thing but according to this article, Brunswick just ‘promised’ them bonuses based upon a ‘self-funded bonus program’...whateverthehell that is, LOL!

We shall see. That company has taken so many hits, it’s doomed anyway. All manufacturing has been sucked dry by the unions in our state, it’s amazing we can produce a No. 2 pencil in this country without them costing $50.00 each, let alone something really needed...like an outboard motor...for boats that no one is buying because manufacturing is so screwed up in great part due to the unions.

It never ends! *Rolleyes*


13 posted on 09/19/2009 5:29:16 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
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To: Arizona Carolyn

Frantzie has a problem with EVERYTHING no matter WHAT the topic. ;)


14 posted on 09/19/2009 5:30:15 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
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To: BallyBill

Management is not unionized. Mercury Marine decided to stay in WI after negotiating with the union employees who made major consessions to keep their jobs, major pay and benefit cuts. Also, the county created a sales tax, I think it’s .01%, to help bolster MM. Now these managers are pulling this stunt.
Sickening.


15 posted on 09/19/2009 5:31:01 PM PDT by Jean S
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To: Blackhawk

We’re just waiting for the old dogs and the Grandparents to pass on; then we’re moving to a SANE state for the remainder of our lives. ;)


16 posted on 09/19/2009 5:31:46 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

“$7 million in bonuses to roughly 100 managers”
Ack! Sorry to go on about this but SHEESH!


17 posted on 09/19/2009 5:33:58 PM PDT by Jean S
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
I have installed incentive programs in many companies, and it works at all levels. In one case a bank owned the company, and the company had earned 0 profits for the last 4 years. I went tot he bank and said would you be willing to give 40% of the profits to the employees? Yeah why not 40% of nothing is a good deal.

The first year they made a 7% profit, and the employees at all levels got a nice incentive payout. The following year they made 12% profit. Employees at the bottom were saying wait don't replace Joe who is retiring we can pick up his job.

The bank was happy, and the employees were ecstatic. Top level mgrs were getting $40,000 plus incentives. entry level employees were getting $4 - 5,000.

Of the incentive money 40% was paid out in cash, %40 went into a 5 year pay out, and the balance into equity in the company.

18 posted on 09/19/2009 6:02:11 PM PDT by stubernx98 (cranky, but reasonable)
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So, is that what they’re talking about? This is money they they earned in the PAST that the company is now refusing to pay them?


19 posted on 09/19/2009 6:21:44 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
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To: Cheetahcat

If the deal was that they got a percentage of the money they saved, the company needs to pay up. If they didn’t get it in writing, they’ll have a hard time collecting.

I have no problem with the managers trying to get MM to live up to their agreement. Without this type of basic contract law, the United States no longer exists.


20 posted on 09/19/2009 6:30:58 PM PDT by MortMan (Stubbing one's toes is a valid (if painful) way of locating furniture in the dark.)
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