Posted on 07/08/2014 4:39:20 PM PDT by upchuck
Extremely common in high tech, and your severance benefits are linked to your compliance. A foul, perverted practice liberals exult in from inside their corporate hives. Liberalism is not for the weak stomached - they eat their own, slowly, to keep each other in terrified obedience to the group.
And then after years of perfect compliance, they eat you anyway. And why?
Because if they didn't, people might think there was a way to stay safe. Can't have that.
In 2007, the H-D Plant was struck and shut down for weeks, over a two-tier wage system mgmt wanted in place for new hires (lower wages/benefits) and established-tenure employees (higher wages/benefits).
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2007/feb/2/20070202-100151-5155r/
By 2012, massive change had come: half the facility had been removed and the land is still for sale for industrial use.
Half the employees are gone into other plants — Indian, other H-D locations, early buy-outs and retirements, other mfgrs — but the plant is much more efficient and quality is markedly up, to customers’ delight and industry reviews.
The unions were shown to be what they’ve been good at: delays, problems, line shutdowns, parts shortages, poor pre-planning etc.
Mgmt is in charge of all physical campuses, inventory, marketing, sales, all decisions and they’ve solidified their grip on the corporate QC, and have edged the unions into a well-lit corner, to keep an eye on them.
The mgmt investment to date simply won’t allow second rate H1B-Visa immigrants to ruin what’s in-place and functioning superbly, and which model is being exported to all of H-Ds other operations.
http://www.jsonline.com/business/harley-plant-undergoes-whirlwind-of-change-vc4srit-146568165.html
While not a pleasant alternative, HD mgmt has shown that they can replace all union personnel and still turn out quality product, after adequate training, and other plants’ workers are brought in to work and supervise the low-tier hires.
Whether it’ll happen is another matter.
It won’t?
I no longer have any inside friends or mgmt contacts at the plant; they’re retired or relocated and I haven’t made any new efforts to re-establish. With pay and benefit cuts, and downscaling, while demands for high production and quality levels increase at the monthly mgmt/union meetings, many workers are not happy, as ‘intimated’ in the trade media. The local fishwrap always paint a brighter picture, fearing another major industrial loss like CAT, back in 1998, losing 3,500 jobs. I don’t know much more than what I hear, either from ex-workers or the occasional relative of a current employee. I take what I hear with a grain of salt, with no inside track on info, anymore.
Your company comes to you and offers a very generous "Exit" bonus of money and benefits. In return you have to train your replacement. Or, you can take your chances with a much lesser amount from unemployment. What will you do?
Preparing my flame proof suit...
Harley has always been and will always remain unreliable junk.
Said it and meant it.
I agree, it smells off.
There is irony, but in many ways, the Japanese embraced many American ideas as we discarded them. Toyota and Honda accounted for 5 of the top 10 American-built cars with more than 75 percent American content in 2012.
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