Judge: Pratt Can't Move Jobs Out of Conn.

NY Times ^ | 2/5/10 | AP

[perchprism]

ping

[Straight Vermonter]

Every day is like another chapter in that prophetic book.

[tanknetter]

Was it Directive 10-289 that prevented companies from moving between states, or an earlier directive? Can’t recall ...

[ThunderSleeps]

Judges telling a private company what they can, and cannot, do to survive.

So much for "free enterprise." Where do judges and unions get off telling a private company what they can and cannot do? You will run an inefficient plant at a loss? You can't trim excess capacity?

I don't think so, P&W should move the plant. Business is business, you're either adding value to the company or not. Companies are in business to make a profit, not as a social program because their employees are somehow "entitled" to a job with them. Oh, and that bad old "profit motive" the socialists don't like? Yeah, that's what allows the business to expand, or ride out rough patches etc.

[tanknetter]

Company held Hostage by Unions.

The situation here seems that Pratt entered into a contract with their union with one or more clauses that could be interpreted as requiring the preservation of in-state jobs.

If Pratt's management actually did that, then the union probably has a case. Management/union negotiations are a two way street, both sides have leverage at their disposal.

So it may be a "bad on management" situation. Much in the same way that the problems with the DC Metro stemming from the sweetheart-deal union contract are the fault of the management that entered into the contract.

[Red Dog #1]

It sure was 10-289, obviously a parody of Roosevelt’s NRA corporatism.

[RedEyeJack]

Who is John Gault?

[silverleaf]

hear hear!

the jobs I’d leave in CT would be guarding warehouses.

[blau993]

Judges telling a private company what they can, and cannot, do to survive.

I assume the decision involves an interpretation of Pratt's contract with the Machinist's Union. That is a proper judicial activity, which is not to say the judge got it right. Whether she did or not may be an issue, and there is a Court of Appeals to determine that.

[GeorgiaDawg32]

I have no idea. But John Galt is rather famous..:)

[y6162]

I work at Pratt Whitney.

I would guess Pratt Mgt will respond with layoffs. Nothing to stop them from doing that.

In the long run, no new work will come to Ct.

[Iscool]

Pratt has to sever all ties with this union and with a state that believes it has the right to issue orders of this nature, and if that means losing some good workers, that may be the price of preserving their private property rights.

Good, glad to see the State upheld a contract signed by BOTH SIDES...

Of course these workers can't compete with labor in Indonesia and China...Can you, OR WILL YOU live on less than a dollar per hour wages in the U.S.???

[y6162]

“Judges telling a private company what they can, and cannot, do to survive.”

This is the work of Att Gen Blumenthal, Dodd’s replacement.

Blumenthal has driven many jobs out of Ct with his anti corporate, eco-zealot, Spitzer-like grandstanding. Hope opposition research is on to him

[RU88]

Suggest that if they're going to make a movie out of “Atlas Shrugged” that they cast Joe “God love ya” Biden as Cuffy Meigs with all of those shovel ready jobs generated by Project X. Walking around with a revolver in one pocket and a rabbit's foot in the other and a hip flask.

We as a country have got to find Gault’s Gulch.

[Racer1]

If only it were that simple but we all know its not.

[G Larry]

Hey Judge!
effU!
You have no jurisdiction in such matters!

This will be appealed and Pratt will prevail.

[MrEdd]

Unions are only part of the reason Race.

The costs of environmental regulation and other codes dwarf the labor cost. Evan with unions.

A pilot friend who sold his dry cleaning business due to the rising cost of lint filter disposal and I were talking about this the other day.

Globalwarming is not ecocommunism in acadamia’s first dance.

The manufacturing backbone of the economy will continue to hemorrhage jobs overseas, judges or no judges.

[screaminsunshine]

Contracts are made to be brokem. Bust the Union and move the plant.

[woodenickel]

This is right out of “Atlas Shrugged” You watch, if they manage to get health care reform passed, our doctors will be not allowed to quit “for the good of the nation”. READ THE BOOK FOLKS. we are living it.