Posted on 01/20/2011 5:03:34 AM PST by NRG1973
The layoffs have begun at the Electrolux plant here as the plant begins the process of closing down by this spring.
United Autoworkers Local 442 Vice President Jerry Kloberdanz said the company posted the first stage of layoffs Jan. 7.
Kloberdanz said there are about 500 people working at the plant.
Electrolux, which makes washing machines and dryers, announced in 2009 that it would close the Webster City plant by the end of March.
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Convince the shoppers at Sears, Walmart, Costco that an Electrolux is worth the extra $100, especially when they know the money is going in the pockets of a union worker that supports socialism and lets the union bosses send his union dues to people like Nancy Pelosi, Jim McDermitt, Charlie Rangel, and another 200 like them in the House & Senate.
So the profit motive had nothing to do with, does Nike management know that.
You still haven’t explained how doubling the price of gasoline is the path to economic prosperity.
Ok. Say you are running a company that has a number of factories that supply components for large ticket items.
After looking at production variables vs costs, you find one factory that has great output, but is not profitable because of production to overhead is negative. Looking deeper into the causes, you find the wages extorted out of you by the unions are stifling profitability of that factory to operate. What do you do?
You can bust the union, generating a lawsuit that locks up even more funds and closes the plant.
You can consolidate factories and move to another location, like Memphis TN(new 700,000 sq ft facility going up there) but that takes time and capital investment and there is no guarantee that the unions won't do the same thing at the new factory.(TN is RTW)
You can ask for renegotiation of the contract to reduce the possibility of closing the plant and the jobs associated with it. That means strikes, courts, and closing the factory anyway to cover those costs.
Find cheaper labor to improve the profit of the company.
You are either willfully in denial of what is happening to America, or here to present propaganda, imho.
Just saying.
We SHOULD have reciprocal trade. That’s the problem. We have nothing of the sort, we only have America being robbed.
From every direction.
What corrupt union do you belong to and how much do the corrupt union bosses get paid?
Many large unions are traitors too. Like the SEIU and AFL-CIO which are pushing hard and spending millions to pass amnesty for illegal aliens. Do you support amnesty? How does that help working people? Give me a break.
Sure I did.
You are too sleepy from shots of Mao-tai with the comrades last night, to read it.
Never been in a union.
Ever.
You do realize do you not, that the Peoples Republic of China is the largest labor union in human history?
Well, enlighten us all. What do you think the pay per hour and benefits for those Electrolux employees in Ohama should have been?
Don't take this thread personally, CNN. You simply failed.
Six years is all it took in the hands of the communists. And oh yeah, they have been slowly disintegrating every facet of our society for years as we allowed them an inch because it wasn't a mile.
Anyone who doesn't vote against this in 2012 can bear the responsibility and shame for the final blow.
At this point in time I would even vote for Trump.
Electrolux plant in MN largely has Somali muslims. I hope that one gets shut down too. Keep watching TV cause ALL of TV eneables Obama including Fox. beck and O’Reilly love Obama now.
But it saved the company! And those jerbs!
/protectionist
Now, I said this about the auto industry going to mexico, so I will try it here...it takes more people to produce the same product in mexico...paying more people less money per comes up at about the same per unit labor cost...management makes the same money (the difference in pay here per unit is neglegable) so, the big question is, if there is little to no change in labor cost per unit to manufacture, why go outside the US to do it? (hint, it has something to do with government interference)
The unions made out much better than the bondholders that got the shaft.
Who is speaking for all the Electroluxes that 1) were grotesquely overpriced to begin with in 1968 and 2) got sent to the trash dump in 1970 when they stopped working?
Yes, salesmen made VERY GOOD INCOMES selling Electroluxes door to door in those years....
What the free market would bear.
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