Wow! If Cat ends up leaving Peoria, that would be really earth-shaking for Illinois and should be a huge wake-up call for Springfield. Should.
My cousin in Peoria worked there for many years, bet she’s glad she finally got retired and can sit at home and play with her grandkids all day.
It ought to be a huge wake up call for Springfield, but they will make flimsy excuses that the gullible and the ignorant will happily accept.
Thanks to the foolishness of Illinois politicians, one of the best places in the state (Peoria) is likely going to take a huge economic hit.
I really hope CAT moves out of Peoria and goes to one of the 22 Right to Work states. Hell, I'd urge a lot of large companies to move out of IL — and I live here.
Let the morons in Springfield includung Governor Quinn (D), House Speaker Madigan (D), Senate President Cullerton (D), and the shadow governor from Chicago, Mayor Rahm Emanuel (D) cry and moan at the loss of their tax base and high paying JOBS.
Yes, you political hacks, businesses actually make things and provide real jobs for real people. Business aren't public sector unions that produce a shoddy product for extraordinary cost. Businesses are in business to make money and not have it stolen by a bunch of corrupt economic illiterates who have never had a real job or met a payroll in their entire lives.
My guess is that the CEO will make a point....relocate a portion of the plant to another state, and cut 2,000 jobs in Illinois. He’ll offer to move the 2,000 to new state...most will refuse. Thus he will have made his point to the state. Finding new jobs for the 2k who refused to move will become the problem for the state...as they go out and try to entice companies to move from other states into Illinois. It’ll be a comical advertisement which most CEOs will ask why in the world would they move?