Posted on 07/15/2010 7:28:34 AM PDT by avg_freeper
Union officials said Wednesday that Hawker Beechcraft is considering moving work out of Wichita that could shrink its hourly work force 50 to 75 percent over the next two years.
Union and company leaders met Wednesday about the future of the Wichita facility and its jobs, the union said.
"The outlook given by the company was bleak for the future," Machinists District 70 president Steve Rooney said in a letter to workers.
"The picture we are getting is of a Hawker Beechcraft Wichita that will shrink almost immediately down to 25 percent or more within two years, without a guarantee of even the last few jobs staying.''
The company issued a statement in response to Rooney's letter to union members:
"Last September the company initiated a series of meetings to update the union leadership about serious challenges it faces during these unprecedented economic times," the statement said. "These conversations have included a spectrum of possibilities for the company's future footprint and the likely impact on its workforce in all its locations.
"The company values this partnership and believes that there is a great opportunity available to us to work together to influence a positive outcome."
(Excerpt) Read more at kansas.com ...
Obama Union scum deserve whatever they get.
Wah. Go to the union for financial help. With any good luck, Beechcraft will move to a right-to-work state.
Kansas is right to work.
Life's a bitch. The only long term job guarantee I have depends on whether or not I make my company money.
Didn’t know that, thanks-
Nope. From the story: "Hawker Beechcraft cut 2,700 jobs in Wichita in 2009 and cut or issued layoff notices to 375 Wichita workers this year. It also closed its Salina facility, with half of the work going to the company's plant in Mexico and the rest to outside suppliers and vendors. The Salina plant employed about 240 people."
Fly the friendly skies in an El Hawker or La Beechcraft.
I guess Barry will just have to seize them and turn them into a Workers Cooperative...
Some years ago Boeing sold that production facility to a company called "Spirit AeroSystems" I think that's where they're manufactured. Spirit is on the South East side of Wichita by McConnell AFB and Boeing Military.
HBC is on the East central side.
Learjet and Cessna are on the other side of town.
......a spectrum of possibilities for the company’s future footprint......
The foot print is going to look like a boot mark across the throat and windpipe
......a spectrum of possibilities for the company’s future footprint......
The foot print is going to look like a bootheel mark across the union throat and windpipe
You can rest assured
The Union Bigs will get paid.
That’s the real Job One.
Well, with the economy the way it is, and the unions always grubbing for more, and Zero up there tearing up executives for flying in private jets...the market for Hawkers and Beechjets and King Airs probably isn’t too good nowadays.
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And naturally the union wants Hussein to step and and make everything alright!! In other words, intimidate/force the dirty, evil, capitalist company to remain open and lose money. Then Hussein can declare it insolvent, take it over and finance the unionites with taxpayer money!
Wanna bet? Well, you might get lifetime unemployment.
Ok, nothing to do with the thread but is this the same Hawker company that made the British war planes? Did they merge with Beechcraft at some point?
Yes, same company but only their commercial assets were combined with Beechcraft I believe.
A whole lumber company shut down in my area(Northern CA)back in 1998 because of the Union members refusing to take across the board pay cuts, so the company sold and the new owner shut it down and sent the timber to other lumber mills about 50 miles away. The company owned it's own timber supply so was not hampered by government regs as much as other companies and could have stayed in business with the pay cuts. Instead we now have a whole county still crippled by the loss of 600 good paying jobs with great health benefits.
Even though I consider that there sre some good points to Unions, the bad points out weight the good, they foster an entitlement mentality being the worst of the points.
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