Posted on 04/20/2011 6:01:04 PM PDT by matt04
WINDSOR LOCKS, Conn. – Aerospace giant Hamilton Sundstrand will eliminate 300 union machinist jobs at its Windsor Locks plant.
The work will shift to lower-cost production plants in Poland, Singapore and Arizona, said Daniel P. Coulom, a spokesman for Hamilton Sundstrand. The job losses will take place over the next few months and any forced layoffs won’t happen until late this year, Coulom said.
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The average wage of a union machinist at Hamilton Sundstrand is about $30 an hour, he said. Many of the workers have been with the company for decades
Before these cuts, the machinists union represented about 1,100 workers at Hamilton Sundstrand in Windsor Locks and about 4,000 workers total at United Technologies plants around the state.
Go ahead UNION, make a stink maybe Hamilton Sundstrand will move its entire operation LOCK - STOCK - and BARREL to Arizona. AZ is a right to work state we don’t need no or want a stinking union.
Union labor contracts screw the economy again. Keep killing the goose that lays those golden eggs... union nimrods.
Maybe we can convince all the union dipsh*ts to leave the United States and go “organize” China, etc. That would definitely “kill” two birds with one stone... and the free world would be better off.
I think Connecticut is also a RTW state. The fact is that Union labor has already set the ball in motion, and so now the dominoes will begin to fall everywhere, as these overpaid spoiled-rotten layabouts crush what’s left of our economic might. Unions=Socialism=Communists
Let’s start a export the unions to China movement
At Hamilton and at Pratt & Whitney, you HAVE to join the Union for all hourly jobs that are direct with the company
In the 1970’s, Hamilton Standard had over 25,000 people working for them in the entire state
The unions killed all that, along with the outsourcing that began in earnest after the Berlin Wall fell down.
Connecticut is filled with Ghost factories, all toxic waste dumps from 60 years of industry, too.
They should sue to get thier union dues refunded, plus attorney fees, plus interest.
Things must have changed since I worked for PWA in East Hartford (1980-1986). At the time, it was an open shop, beginning around 1982... You no longer had to join the AFL-CIO Machinist Union (IAM which the smarter mechanics among us proudly said stood for I Ain’t a Member!).
The Machinists Union is the worst of the bunch. After all other unions had settle their grievances with Eastern Airlines the Machinists refused. Eastern had to close the doors. The MU leaders didn’t care at all. It just showed how powerful they were. The union members? Shafted again but they wrongly blamed Eastern instead of their own leaders.
Send lawyers - it’s faster
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