Posted on 01/11/2018 12:21:13 AM PST by SMGFan
I had a customer in Huntsville who manufactured optical discs (compact discs, laser disc, DVDs, etc.). Loved to visit the Space and Rocket Center when I was in town...
We have a Honda plant in Lincoln, AL and the Mercedes plant down near Tuscaloosa. Now these two. My nephew works at the Lincoln plant. NO UNION. They were told that they would be given a great pay scale, insurance, retirement plans to put into, etc., BUT the second they brought in a union, the plant was done, shut down. Great!!! My nephews says it is a fantastic job and he loves it there, that they are treated great. He makes good money. Outside on the highway there has been this union place trying for years now to get them to bring in the union. Every time that mob shows up, the employees tell them to hit the road, they are not losing their jobs so the union thugs can come in. The union office is now about a run down shack because it is going absolutely NO WHERE down in Lincoln at the Honda plant. Hopefully, it will stay that way. I don’t know about the Mercedes plant, if it is the same way, but it should be and hopefully these two up in Huntsville will do the same thing. Just treat the people right, pay them a fair wage, and they will work for you. Lincoln went from a small, back water river town, to having the best of everything. They got a brand new high school out on HW77 and a brand new elementary school next to it. They have a beautiful high school football stadium, big gym for basketball, a softball park for the girls teams and a big nice boys baseball field. They have a computer center building next to the elementary school, teaching the little critters young on the computers. Their old HS and old football field and stadium was a dump, falling down. Now, thanks to Honda, their community is one of the nicest in the area, right off I-20 for easy access.
I have a 2017 Honda Ridgeline and was surprised to learn that all Ridgelines are built in that factory.
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