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Goodyear's Union City, Tenn., plant to close, eliminating 1,900 jobs
Memphis Commercial Appeal ^ | February 10, 2011 at 10:45 p.m. | By Tom Bailey Jr.

Posted on 02/13/2011 1:00:55 PM PST by DeaconBenjamin

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To: nascarnation

“The added costs and lower productivity of a unionized workforce is a very tough factor to overcome when facing a wide assortment of competitors without that problem.”

That’s it in a nutshell.


21 posted on 02/13/2011 2:04:56 PM PST by SumProVita (Cogito, ergo...Sum Pro Vita. (Modified Decartes))
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To: SumProVita
How's that “Hopey-Changey” thingee workin’ out for y’ll in Union City, TN? Guess the Great Odumbo’s gonna have to part with more of “his stash”, eh?

[Hint: Don't count on it; you're all dead meat on the table.]

22 posted on 02/13/2011 2:25:12 PM PST by MasterGunner01 (To err is human; to forgive is not our policy. -- SEAL Team SIX)
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To: The Great RJ
Another golden egg-laying goose killed by union pigs. Too bad so sad.
23 posted on 02/13/2011 2:29:01 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: MasterGunner01

I have never been any fan of Obama...nor of his Marxist agenda. There are good people in the Union City area of Tennessee.....and some who are greedy and some who are ignorant. Hopefully, the greedy and the ignorant will learn something from this. Unfortunately, the good people will have to deal with it as well.


24 posted on 02/13/2011 2:31:39 PM PST by SumProVita (Cogito, ergo...Sum Pro Vita. (Modified Decartes))
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To: DeaconBenjamin

Tire prices for my truck have increased more than $50 over the past year. This is in a down economy?


25 posted on 02/13/2011 2:33:10 PM PST by CodeToad (Islam needs to be banned in the US and treated as a criminal enterprise.)
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To: MasterGunner01

I should have included that I hope many will learn that UNIONS as we know them are past their time. They are fonts of corruption and greed.


26 posted on 02/13/2011 2:33:40 PM PST by SumProVita (Cogito, ergo...Sum Pro Vita. (Modified Decartes))
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To: nascarnation

27 posted on 02/13/2011 2:34:47 PM PST by CodeToad (Islam needs to be banned in the US and treated as a criminal enterprise.)
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To: hinckley buzzard

Yes, this is the Unions fault. Ya Know, you guys are a joke. These jobs are going overseas because these corporations care more about making a buck, than they do about being American products. How the hell, do you expect an American worker to compete against a Mexican, Chinese or Malaysian worker who makes 50 dollars a freakin month, and lives in company housing. Im getting tired of the union bashing around here. Everytime a unionized company leaves an area, the Union is to blame. How about the millions of non union jobs who outsource to third world countries every year? These companies are looking for the cheapest labor they can find, and why pay a worker in the USA 12 bucks an hour when you can pay some slave over in China or down in South America 10 bucks a day.


28 posted on 02/13/2011 2:37:32 PM PST by ConservativeNewYorker (FDNY 343 NYPD 23 PAPD 37)
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To: ConservativeNewYorker

All I can tell you is that having worked in unionized plants for 40+ years, I really believe the union is a large factor in increasing costs and reducing productivity.

The sad part was was that most of the workers were brainwashed and truly believed they worked for the UAW, not the company. They saw no connection between the economic success of the company and their own compensation.


29 posted on 02/13/2011 2:51:42 PM PST by nascarnation
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To: ConservativeNewYorker

I was in a closed-shop union job for 11 years. I’ve seen the games that are played. I’ve seen the grievances over NOTHING. I’ve seen lazy bums get protected by the union while those of us with even a small amount of work ethic are told by the union to slow down and quit working so hard. I’ve seen a portion of my pay STOLEN by the union thugs to support causes in which I did not believe. I’ve been down that road - the unions are a huge problem in this country.

It is the union’s fault in a large part. It is the government’s fault in part. It is NOT the corporation’s fault - they’re just trying to stay in business while the antagonists (union and government primarily) do everything that they can to stop them.


30 posted on 02/13/2011 2:58:18 PM PST by meyer (We will not sit down and shut up.)
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To: ConservativeNewYorker

Not very well factually educated in American labor rates, are you? Since the Revolution, American labor was the comparitivly highest paid in the world. That is why unskilled and skilled labor flooded here. And, yet while having high labor, high local costs of building new plant, equipment, cities, transportation, we became a export super power.

Why? Business. Money. Anyone could do business, invest, make money, quicker, faster then anyplace in the world. This quick return of money, profits more than covered high labor rates. This ease and speed is now in China.

So, be ignorant, blame investors who add up socialist costs, socialist taxes, rules regulations permits fees and decide to take their money elsewhere. Money goes to where it is loved and wanted.


31 posted on 02/13/2011 3:01:24 PM PST by Leisler (Our debts are someone's profit. Follow the money, the vig.....)
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To: Ingtar
one of those things that unions did when they were meaningful and not a political arm for the Dims.

When was that? Medieval times? Weren't they called guilds back then? Oh wait. Guilds were for people with skills. Never mind.

32 posted on 02/13/2011 3:08:24 PM PST by Huck (one per-center)
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To: ConservativeNewYorker

When everyone here in America is out of work and the middleclass is reduced to the poverty level, who’s gonna buy thier corporate crap? They are who they are and who they became because of us, when there is no us there is no them! Cut your nose off inspite of your face


33 posted on 02/13/2011 3:13:30 PM PST by ronnie raygun (V)
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To: nascarnation

“They saw no connection between the economic success of the company and their own compensation.”

That is a great summary of what American unions have become. It could not be stated more clearly.


34 posted on 02/13/2011 3:23:15 PM PST by billhilly
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To: ConservativeNewYorker

“These companies are looking for the cheapest labor they can find, and why pay a worker in the USA 12 bucks an hour when you can pay some slave over in China or down in South America 10 bucks a day.”

There is only one way to overcome this disparity between US and third-world wages - productivity. Unions are deliberately set up to impede the flexibility and adaptability required to increase productivity. They will not change their model, and we all will suffer the consequences.

If you impede one man’s freedom to hire and another man’s freedom to work wherever he can, every American is hurt.

Nobody wishes to hold those denying America our universal, God-given freedom accountable - yet.


35 posted on 02/13/2011 3:29:05 PM PST by RFEngineer
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To: nascarnation

“They saw no connection between the economic success of the company and their own compensation.”

Which is also why unions flourish in government. There is no connection between hard work, compensation, and economic success.


36 posted on 02/13/2011 3:31:06 PM PST by RFEngineer
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To: GeronL

DING! DING! DING!..... WE HAVE A WINNAH!!!!!.....


37 posted on 02/13/2011 3:33:40 PM PST by Red Badger (Want to be surprised? Google your own name. Want to have fun? Google your friend's names.....)
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To: DeaconBenjamin
Tariff Time.

It's time to get serious about saving this country by playing some hardball with our "competitors" before it's too late.
38 posted on 02/13/2011 3:46:13 PM PST by saltlick
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To: ConservativeNewYorker
These jobs are going overseas because these corporations care more about making a buck, than they do about being American products

That's what corporations are for, to make money for the investors. Corporate boards are answerable to the shareholders. It is their company. Corporations are not social engineering experiments. They exist solely for the purpose of making money, and always have..

39 posted on 02/13/2011 3:46:20 PM PST by Red Badger (Want to be surprised? Google your own name. Want to have fun? Google your friend's names.....)
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To: Clock King

Looks like our Free Trade Communist friends have won another for Communist China.


40 posted on 02/13/2011 3:47:37 PM PST by UCFRoadWarrior (Newt Gingrich and Chris Matthews: Seperated at Birth??)
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