Tennessee Peterbilt plant closes doors for good (Union Plant, on strike since June of 2008)

WKRN Nashville, TN. ^ | 12/02/2009 | WKRN Nashville, TN.

[The Magical Mischief Tour]

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – The Peterbilt plant in Madison is shutting down for good on Tuesday.

The truck manufacturer is consolidating production with its other plant in north Texas, leaving about 390 Tennessee workers out of a job.

The plan temporary shut down in February, when Plant manager Larry Vessels told News 2 the plant would not resume production until the economy improves.

Hourly workers at the plant had been locked out since June 2008 because of a labor dispute.

[pnh102]

Hourly workers at the plant had been locked out since June 2008 because of a labor dispute.

The title states they were on strike. There's a huge, huge difference between being on strike and being locked out.

[CGASMIA68]

Once again the parasite kills the host

[The Magical Mischief Tour]

Perhaps, but the root of either problem is still the unions... and they killed the plant and the jobs.

[CGASMIA68]

title doesnt say that,the Poster decided to add 2 cents “again”

[Wpin]

Now you see the importance for the socialist democrat party to take over private industry. The only place where union membership is growing is in the public sector...

[Paige]

Labor Dispute always means the Union is involved. For the life of me, I can’t wrap my mind around why Unions would not do everything in their power for people to ‘keep’ their jobs.

[Jimmy Valentine]

Let me get this straight. The Union would not work out a settlement in a deteriorating economy for two and one-half YEARS!!??

Merry Christmas you idiots!!

[Dan(9698)]

I can’t wrap my mind around why Unions would not do everything in their power for people to ‘keep’ their jobs.

The United Steelworkers union from Minnesota came to Wyoming and shut down an iron ore mine.

They would rather have the "jobs" back east.

[Landru]

"The Peterbilt plant in Madison is shutting down for good on Tuesday...Hourly workers at the plant had been locked out since June 2008 because of a labor dispute." -END OF LINE-

LOL

[octex]

I was in mgt. at a major defense contractor for over 30 years and we had several different unions there. There were several times that a union would do a walk-out or a strike and the company would do a lock-out to prevent the union workers from entering. Mgt. and non-union personnel were able to keep things rolling.

No company wants union thugs to be able to access the facilities in such circumstances and sabotage equipment or products. ........Glad to be in a “right to work” state here in Texas, where the unions get little support!!

[TSgt]

More here:

http://www.wkrn.com/global/Story.asp?s=9789428

Last summer, Peterbilt locked out its hourly employees after a contract agreement with the United Auto Workers was not reached.

[TSgt]

New Union Logo

[Travis McGee]

ping

[FreeAtlanta]

Hoorah for the Unions! They have successfully killed another American manufacturing location!!!

Our enemies are celebrating.

[BOBWADE]

I imagine the union will have some spokesman declare victory over the eeeevil business.

[scooby321]

They move to Alabama where Kia has just built a new state of the art Auto plant or South Carolina where I saw displaced Mill workers ecstatic over what BMW pays them.

[caver]

Striking or forcing a lockout during a recession? Unions are too fricking stupid. I bet the E Board of the union came out all right.

[FreeAtlanta]

Georgia is right to work, too. I am convinced that is why we lost the successful Ford and GM plants. I think the Unions pressured their dying hosts to close them and to keep open plants in the socialist rotting kingdom of Michigan. Meanwhile Kia builds a 1.2 billion dollar plant in our state.

[Thermalseeker]

Mgt. and non-union personnel were able to keep things rolling.

I heard on the news yesterday that the DoD has decided to replace 13,000 contractors with gubmint (union) employees. Somehow, this is supposed to save money........