[Chrisibew440]

Greenlee went union. A handful of workers called the ibew.

 

[360max]

Greenlee went union. A handful of workers called the ibew.

:thumbup::thumbup::thumbup::thumbup:

 

[Chrisibew440]

:thumbup::thumbup::thumbup::thumbup:

Makes me feel proud.

 

[The_Modifier]

Great, now the tools will take forever to get to market. :laughing::laughing::laughing:

 

[TOOL_5150]

So now they are going to be twice as expensive, and half as productive?

 

[99cents]

Greenlee went union. A handful of workers called the ibew.

The IBEW is in China now?

 

[mgraw]

Greenlee went union. A handful of workers called the ibew.

Don't you mean one shop of about 60-70 employees went IBEW. Weren't they already at or very near union scale?

 

[99cents]

66...erm...machinists.

Yawn.

www.ibew.org/articles/14ElectricalWorker/EW1401/Greenlee.0114.html

 

[brian john]

The sad fact of this is Greenlee will most likely move these jobs offshore in the future.

Good for the workers in the short term and MAYBE long term when manufacturing realizes that there is a positive to having workers in the USA.

There are so many facets to why manufactures leave, wages and regulations being the number one and two.

 

[mikeh32]

They wont move offshore. They pride themselves about being made locally.

A lot of the Training centers in the areas, also have partnerships with Ideal, Klein, Greenlee, and Milwaukee, as they are all local.

While its great for them, I can't imagine it is much of a pay raise for the ones here in rockford

 

[manchestersparky]

They wont move offshore. They pride themselves about being made locally.

A lot of the Training centers in the areas, also have partnerships with Ideal, Klein, Greenlee, and Milwaukee, as they are all local.

While its great for them, I can't imagine it is much of a pay raise for the ones here in rockford

So did Black and Decker ---

Right up until they moved to mexico !

 

[brian john]

So did Black and Decker ---

Right up until they moved to mexico !

And Carhart
And Walmart had a big BUY AMERICAN campaign.

Or the automate and reduce the workforce.

 

[manchestersparky]

and redwing boots- some sold come from overseas

 

[Big John]

They always pride themselves in being made domestically until they realize how much greater their profit margins would be if they weren't.

 

[rewire]

We had a fasco plant that wanted to unionize the union lost and the plant still went to mexico.

 

[brian john]

We had a fasco plant that wanted to unionize the union lost and the plant still went to mexico.

I told the story of my ex-employee that is in prison, worked in an AC Delco rewind shop in prison making .75 or .85 cents an hour. AC Delco shut the doors and moved to Mexico, if we can't compete with prison labor at .75-.85 cents an hour it is a lost cause.

 

[Big John]

Unions aren't the reason companies are going overseas. There is no legal work force in America that can effectively compete with overseas labor because they are literally working for pennies on the dollar.

 

[chicken steve]

While i don't doubt that true Brian, labor had one small ray of sunshine break through the clouds of globalism @ Greenlee

I'm going to go buy something Greenlee this week , consider it a protest purchase.....

~CS~

 

[wendon]

What tools that Greenlee sells are made in the USA?

 

[brian john]

While i don't doubt that true Brian, labor had one small ray of sunshine break through the clouds of globalism @ Greenlee

I'm going to go buy something Greenlee this week , consider it a protest purchase.....

~CS~

Nothing against Greenlee but I am tooled out for a while.