Posted on 08/18/2011 2:05:10 PM PDT by TonyInOhio
DETROIT–American Axle & Manufacturing Holdings Inc. dealt the United Auto Workers a second blow Thursday by announcing the closure of its New York gear-making plant after union rank-and-file members failed to ratify a new contract late last month.
The Cheektowaga plant, employing about 100 hourly and salaried workers, will be shut sometime after Feb. 25, American Axle spokesman Christopher Son said. The announcement comes a month after the company said it will close its Detroit plant after workers there failed to agree to wage cuts. That closure will throw about 300 people out of work.
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NLRB will probably tell them they don’t have the right to close the plant.
Call it an extended strike.
Geniuses.
Given how they handled the auto bailouts expect them to take over the company and hand ownership to the UAW.
That's really the way things are headed. If Obama and crew had been in charge Buggy Whip Maker's Union members would still be making the big bucks by government order.
Yep. It's in the book:
Directive 10-289:
In the name of the general welfare, to protect the people's security, to achieve full equality and total stability, it is decreed for the duration of the national emergency that:Point One. All workers, wage earners and employees of any kind whatsoever shall henceforth be attached to their jobs and shall not leave nor be dismissed nor change employment, under penalty of a term in jail. The penalty shall be determined by the Unification Board, such Board to be appointed by the Bureau of Economic Planning and National Resources. All persons reaching the age of twenty-one shall report to the Unification Board, which shall assign them to where, in its opinion, their services will best serve the interests of the nation.
Point Two. All industrial, commercial, manufacturing and business establishments of any nature whatsoever shall henceforth remain in operation, and the owners of such establishments shall not quit nor leave nor retire, nor close, sell or transfer their business, under pentalty of the nationalization of their establishment and of any and all of their property.
Point Three. All patents and copyrights, pertaining to any devices, inventions, formulas, processes and works of any nature whatsoever, shall be turned over to the nation as a patriotic emergency gift by means of Gift Certificates to be signed voluntarily by the owners of all such patents and copyrights. The Unification Board shall then license the use of such patents and copyrights to all applicants, equally and without discrimination, for the purpose of eliminating monopolistic practices, discarding obsolete products and making the best available to the whole nation. No trademarks, brand names or copyrighted titles shall be used. Every formerly patented product shall be known by a new name and sold by all manufacturers under the same name, such name to be selected by the Unification Board. All private trademarks and brand names are hereby abolished.
Point Four. No new devices, inventions, products, or goods of any nature whatsoever, not now on the market, shall be produced, invented, manufacturerd or sold afer the date of this directive. The Office of Patents and Copyrights is hereby suspended.
Point Five. Every establishment, concern, corporation or person engaged in production of any nature whatsoever shall henceforth produce the same amount of goods per year as it, they or he produced during the Basic Year, no more and no less. The year to be known as the Basic or Yardstick Year is to be the year ending on the date of this directive. Over or under production shall be fined, such fines to be determined by the Unification Barod.
Point Six. Every person of any age, sex, class or income, shall henceforth spend the same amount of money on the purchase of goods per year as he or she spent during the Basic Year, no more and no less. Over or under purchasing shall be fined, such fines to be determined by the Unification Board.
Point Seven. All wages, prices, salaries, dividends, profits, interest rates and forms of income of any nature whatsoever, shall be frozen at their present figures, as of the date of this directive.
Point Eight. All cases arising from and rules not specifically provided for in this directive, shall be settled and determined by the Unification Board, whose decisions will be final.
Economic reality 101. Unions destroy every business and/or industry that they get involved with. Join a union if you want, but the day the business gets unionized if the day they start to die.
On February 26, 2008, approximately 3600 AAM employees went on strike for three months to protest a proposed wage and benefit cut. Strike ended reducing workers’ hourly wage from $28 to $14 and cut benefits.
After 3 years the company wants more, workers already gave back 50%.
Kind of sad.
In the “old days” that was “Chevrolet Gear and Axle” and had a couple thousand workers....
Are you saying a company can’t keep trying to negotiate wages for new contract renewals. Nobody makes them work there. If it is too low then leave.
“...it will close its Detroit plant after workers there failed to agree to wage cuts. “
Sounds like they agreed to a pretty drastic wage cut when they failed to agree to wage cuts.
Looters getting it on the nose is always good.
This sounds like someone trying to make sure all employees still have a job rather than laying folks off.
how many sick days are you allowed? Per week.
Will you all not be happy til all ‘workers’ earn a buck an hour?
This is a race to the bottom, third world status.
You people are clueless.
Well, that's a buck more than these folks will be making now.
And, apparently, it wasn't enough.
If the plant was making money, American Axle wouldn't be closing the plant.
And guess what, guys? Your union pension has already been spent to elect Democrats to office.
Union yes! A-meric-aaaaa works best when we say...
Union yes!
I’d love to see the look on your face and your reactions when Big Dick comes in and undercuts your job by 50%.
Someone will always work for less. It’s a race to the bottom.
Those union morons will be standing in the unemployment line bitching because the factory closed down an sent THEIR jobs overseas, believing all the time that the company could continue to pay their outrageous benefits.
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