Harley Davidson starts to break union
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In spite of huge profits Harley Davidson Inc. is calling on its workers to approve 33% lower wages for new hires and significantly reduced benefits for all employees in exchange for a $120 million expansion of the firm's Milwaukee factories.
Apparently Harley has decided its time to jump on the "screw the workers" bandwagon. What if the workers say no? Good bye plant expansion. What a great corporate citizen.
The minute the union accepts a two-tiered wage schedule the union is dead. No self respecting new worker will have any love for the union that allowed them to take the shaft. Harley won't even say how many jobs will be created.
It is amazing that Milwaukee manufacturers complain that they can't find enough workers anymore. Who the hell is going to go into an industry that continues to roll back wages and benefits, and in Harley's case, at a time of record profits and little competition? The article compares Harley to GM as if they are in the same economic situation.
One Harley worker gets to the point:
"It aggravates me that Harley puts it out that they're such a great company and then they do this on the workers' backs. Now, if you had a kid and you were a factory worker and you'd lost your job and given concessions and stuff, would you recommend to your kid to go to work in a factory? No."
To read the whole article: Link
Apparently Harley has decided its time to jump on the "screw the workers" bandwagon. What if the workers say no? Good bye plant expansion. What a great corporate citizen.
The minute the union accepts a two-tiered wage schedule the union is dead. No self respecting new worker will have any love for the union that allowed them to take the shaft. Harley won't even say how many jobs will be created.
It is amazing that Milwaukee manufacturers complain that they can't find enough workers anymore. Who the hell is going to go into an industry that continues to roll back wages and benefits, and in Harley's case, at a time of record profits and little competition? The article compares Harley to GM as if they are in the same economic situation.
One Harley worker gets to the point:
"It aggravates me that Harley puts it out that they're such a great company and then they do this on the workers' backs. Now, if you had a kid and you were a factory worker and you'd lost your job and given concessions and stuff, would you recommend to your kid to go to work in a factory? No."
To read the whole article: Link
