"Takin' Twenty with the Virginian Brethren" by Skip Salmon

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Skip:
 
It's a lot more complicated than that.  As a GE Erie retiree, I keep  tabs 
on developments up there, even though I've been gone 16 years now.   
Recently, GE Erie management announced plans to eliminate 950 jobs in Erie and  
move the work to Ft. Worth; under the union contract these plans were  
negotiable, and you are correct that they could not reach an agreement that  would 
have prevented this.  However, and this is a big "however", the Ft.  Worth 
plant was already in service, and the only open question was how much  
production and of what would take place there versus remain in Erie.
 
It's important to note that the new EMD plant in Muncie, IN, under  
Caterpillar management, is non-union.  This has major implications for GE,  and you 
don't have to have insider information (which I most certainly do not)  to 
figure out that Ft. Worth is part of their response.
 
Reality is often unpleasant, but it's always reality, and you'd better deal 
 with it.
 
Regards,
 
Dave Phelps
 
 
In a message dated 8/8/2013 8:39:47 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org writes:

This  plant was put in service after GE could not get an agreement with 
unions at  their Erie, PA plant.
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