Mercury might leave WI

[roscoe]

Re: Mercury might leave WI

I can guarantee the union did NOT lobby the gov't to cut our hours. The union fought long and hard for this not to go through. The nuclear Regulation Comittee has been making decisions based on hours worked to deter fatigue. here is no may to the cut either. It's mandated how many overtime shifts I can work in any given 6 week period. It's currently controlled, and has been for long time, but they are making it worse.


Our union is not like most. The stewards and above don't sit in a comfy office, drive comfy cars and make more money than the normal employee. We are working alongside those that we represent. Always have and always will.

People need to realize that not all unions are bad. I'm expected to give my life for this company and the public. If the company had their way, I'd be making minimum wage and have no benefits.


As far as your union dicking you over, that is messed up. You can file unfair labor practices on your own union if you wanted.

PS, I have never drank any union kool aid. Never have and never will. One, I'm in the wrong political party to be 100% union. Which makes it interesting when I go to training put on by labor board and express my views.

I have never known any union that did not lobby to get legislation passed to get more employees, therefore more members, to collect dues from.

" If the company had their way, I'd be making minimum wage and have no benefits."

Then they would get no one to take the job. Its a competitive marketplace, and you would not take the job, as the skills/education would not be worth the reward/pay.

Glad it all works for you, but my experiences with the GCIU, Teamsters, and Hotel Motel and Restaurant unions has left me soured and my eyes open.

 

[hazmat5760]

Re: Mercury might leave WI

Ayuh,..... So with that line of thought,...

It's the Big Bad Company that we should all be Mad at for collecting all the Taxes taken from us every Payday,.?.?.?.
Even though it's at the Direction of the various taxing agencies,.?.?.?.?

Ya lost me on that 1.....


If you're an At Will employee,....
You understand that you don't have a Right to a job....
You were hired to do a Job,...
If you can't,+ or Won't,.... Why should you be paid Not to do the job,..??

Ya know,.... Good employees are Never fired......

I think what he was trying to say is that a union can't legally force you to join. Good employees do get fired, and I'm an example of that.


I was hired for a job at scout camp one summer. A certain adult leader was angry that I got it and not him so he wrote letters to management that I was swearing around the kids and multiple other things. It was easier to just get fired than to fight it and prove it was him. Management even agreed that something didn't add up.

 

[wajajaja02]

Re: Mercury might leave WI

the largest employer in this country is WalMart, non union, wanna trust your healthcare decisions to that employer, and your standard of living? Any company that treats its employees halfway decent does so to avoid unions.
Mercury moving to Ok will mean lower labor because its in the south, not necessarily because its non union. The Union may go to OK.
Saturn is the only division of GM that never made a profit, and it was never union and did not have any union legacy cost. the failure of gm was not about labor.
Take a look at what Verizon has done to its Management employees,and management retirees no pensions, just 401k, partial health benefits. or none, while the union employees still have full coverage, and so do the retirees, as earned over a lifetime of work, committed to then and held to now.
now many retired management employees are in a union of sorts fighting for these benefits.
two tier contracts are union splitting or union busting , the new guys will not support the retirees in the future if you sell them out now.

 

[bigredinohio]

Re: Mercury might leave WI

Did anyone know that Fountain Power Boats filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy?

Fountain Powerboat Industries Inc., a manufacturer of sleek, fast offshore sport and fishing boats that buys all of its marine engines from Mercury Marine of Fond du Lac, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization.

The bankruptcy petition, filed Monday in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina, lists $18.4 million in assets against $50.2 million in liabilities. Major debts are owed to GE Commercial Distribution Finance Corp., $18 million, and Regions Bank, $13.5 million, according to the filing. Fountain also owes more than $325,700 to Mercury Marine, which is one of the 20 largest creditors listed in the filing.

Reggie Fountain, who founded the company in 1979 near Washington, N.C., along the Pamlico River, told Reuters that the company is talking to as many as nine possible buyers of Fountain?s current marine inventory to help pay off liabilities.

?Business has been very, very weak,? says Fountain, who includes former President George H.W. Bush and the U.S. Coast Guard among the firm?s customer list.

Fountain (OTCBB: FPWB) was delisted from the NYSE Alternext board in February and currently trades as a pink sheet stock at around 9 cents.

The Fountain manufacturing facility is comprised of 12 buildings located on 65 acres totaling more than 237,000 square feet accommodating 40 to 45 boats in various stages of construction at any one time. The vessels turned out there travel at as much as 80 to 100 miles per hour and sell for about a quarter of a million dollars.

The bankruptcy court will schedule a hearing in considering whether to approve the sale of Fountain?s current inventory of unsold boats. If a sale is successful, the firm plans to continue its search for new investors. If the sale is not approved, the company says in court papers, it would move toward ?orderly liquidation.?

Mercury Marine is meeting with the union representing workers in Fond du Lac Tuesday on a possible compromise that may keep the company from moving the plant's production to a Mercury plant in Stillwater, Okla. Mercury Marine has seen its sales plunge because of the sinking boat markets.

According to SEC filings, Fountain Powerboats has an agreement with Mercury Marine, a division of Lake Forest, Ill.-based Brunswick Corp. (NYSE: BC), under which Fountain purchases from Mercury all of its requirements for marine engines and other power components that Mercury manufactures for Fountain and Baja boat production. The term of the agreement is through June 30, 2020.

http://www.bizjournals.com/milwaukee/stories/2009/08/24/daily26.html

 

[Haut Medoc]

Re: Mercury might leave WI

BIG CORPORATE GREED, is all I have to say.....
Unions at least try to keep the greedy bean counters from sqeezing every last drop of sweat....
Smaller companies might care about their employees, large corporations do not.....
I'm sick of these corporations crying poor mouth when the execs are making 7-8 figure salaries..
The bottom line is that U.S. workers can't live on a bowl of rice a day, it won't be so funny when your job is shipped to another state or overseas....
Maybe we should outsource our GUBMINT jobs to save money.....