Posted on 11/03/2010 2:01:35 PM PDT by Second Amendment First
The Olin Corp. announced Wednesday that it will suspend production of centerfire ammunition at its plant in East Alton and re-locate the manufacturing operation to Oxford, Miss.
The move comes less than 24 hours after members of the union representing over Olin 800 workers rejected concessions that would have allowed them to keep their jobs.
"Our focus always has been on ensuring that we continue producing high-quality products for our customers in an increasingly competitive market," president and CEO Joseph D. Rupp said in a prepared statement.
"While I am disappointed that employees represented by the International Association of Machinists chose to reject a proposal that would have allowed us to remain competitive in East Alton, we look forward to expanding our existing operations in Mississippi."
(Excerpt) Read more at stltoday.com ...
Prohibited how? Even if he were willing to imprison the workers and execs in housing attached to the factory, he can't force them to work, at least not very successfully. And failing that, there's not much he can do. They can shut down the old corp and start up as a new one if they have to.
Didn't work that time either, did it?
You should know...
WW value packs in JM Browning’s finest... that’s like drinking ripple from a cut glass tumbler.
Won’t catch me stuffing those things in my K80.
The same way they enforce environmental, labor and tax laws on any company. Have you not been paying attention the past 80 years? Suggesting that a company can shut down and then reopen elsewhere is not realistic. Is Ford going to do that?
Bad economy, high un-employment
Typical heavy handed Unions, now 800 more join the un-employment line
And as an ammo plant, why would you want to stay in such an antigun state anyway?
Lots of companies have already done it. Even if he were to try to prohibit such a move, I’m sure with adequate determination they still could do so.
My boss told me not to vote for it. :o)
My Favorite Economics professor is from the Former Soviet Union she is an unrepentant capitalist I love this Prof. She says that in Soviet Russia they lived by "They pretend to pay us so we pretend to work" there is no wondering why the system collapsed.
They were probably founded with the express intention of shooting Secesh Southerners. :o)
The sooner there are no unions, the better.
Yippeeeeee!
Hot dang good news, for sure!
“Thank you, you yankee union idiots. We can always use more ammo and jobs down here.”
Heh...;o)
They'll be collecting welfare for the rest of their Democrap voting lives. A couple of brief examples. When the steel industry went through it's collapse there were government teams that went in to help the workers find other jobs by assessing their "transferable skills." One of the government team members later said that the whole effort was a waste of money (big surprise there). He said that the workers "had no transferable skills." They were getting paid $22 an hour to press that green button when this light came on.
Another story from laziest state in the US - Hawaii. In the '80s a big sugar plantation on the big island feeling the pinch of foreign sugar competition was losing money. The only way it could stay in business was to cut wages. It opened its books to the workers and scheduled a vote on wage cut or go out of business. The workers overhwelmingly voted against the wage cut. The day after the vote the sugar plantation shut down never to reopen. In the '90s a group of Japanese investors paid $22 million for a large section of land along the southeast coast of the big island including a lot of the land formerly owned by the sugar plantation with a plan to develop resort hotels like on Maui. These would have provided lucrative jobs for the entire area and raised the local economy by quite a bit. The same Hawaiians who voted not to take a wage cut found the money to hire an expensive law firm to block the development on the grounds that it would adversely affect their way of life (collecting welfare and getting drunk apparently). So the union work ethic - get paid for doing nothing - is alive and well even in non-union areas.
I assume you're being sarcastic.
In S.E. Florida we have gub mint subsidised sugar plantations
The polluting Fanjul family.
And here I thought it was to turn the USA into a copy of Mugabe's Zimbabwe with the white middle class having their wealth confiscated to pay black Democrat welfare recipients voters to keep the Democrats in power. Your scenario is positively benign compared to where I think he's headed.
I have to wash the soot off my white roof in West Palm every couple of years.
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