Union rejects pact, Mercury Marine to move jobs.

[boomerbust]

Source: jsonline.com

Union rejects pact; Mercury Marine to move jobs
By Rick Barrett and Erin Richards of the Journal Sentinel

Posted: Aug. 23, 2009 12:22 p.m.

Fond du Lac — In a move that could cost them their jobs, Mercury Marine Inc. employees Sunday by a large margin rejected contract concessions that would have included lower wages for new hires and employees called back from layoff.

The final vote was not immediately available.

After the vote, officials at Mercury Marine announced Sunday that the company will consolidate much of its Fond du Lac manufacturing operations with its existing operations in Stillwater, Okla.

The full consolidation is expected to take between 24 and 36 months, the company said. After the consolidation, the company said, there will be "from zero to 200" manufacturing jobs left at the Fond du Lac plant.

The consolidation is expected to begin later this year.


Read more: http://www.jsonline.com/news/wisconsin/54321942.html

[boomerbust]

1. Union rejects pact, Mercury Marine to move jobs.

Source: jsonline.com

Union rejects pact; Mercury Marine to move jobs
By Rick Barrett and Erin Richards of the Journal Sentinel

Posted: Aug. 23, 2009 12:22 p.m.

Fond du Lac — In a move that could cost them their jobs, Mercury Marine Inc. employees Sunday by a large margin rejected contract concessions that would have included lower wages for new hires and employees called back from layoff.

The final vote was not immediately available.

After the vote, officials at Mercury Marine announced Sunday that the company will consolidate much of its Fond du Lac manufacturing operations with its existing operations in Stillwater, Okla.

The full consolidation is expected to take between 24 and 36 months, the company said. After the consolidation, the company said, there will be "from zero to 200" manufacturing jobs left at the Fond du Lac plant.

The consolidation is expected to begin later this year.


Read more: http://www.jsonline.com/news/wisconsin/54321942.html

[tularetom]

2. They may discover that you get what you pay for

Or they may discover that they can move their manufacturing operations across the Rio Grande and pay even less than they do in Oklahoma.

Either way I don't believe this is a wise move.

[Hawkeye-X]

3. A legislation that abolishes companies that picks up the ball and moves elsewhere

if they don't like the union, can go bankrupt and taken over by the said union, and made into a unionized shop!

[boomerbust]

4. The conservative radio pukes

In Wis. are going insane. Unions are ruining the economy:puke:

[safeinOhio]

5. Give up the Wisconsin market

and corner Oklahoma outboard sales. Smart move.

[Coyote_Bandit]

6. Mercury already has

a strong presence in Oklahoma - and Oklahoma is an at will employment state.

There is nothing about this taht wasn't predictable.

[Tim01]

7. The union won. Awsome. nt

[hornblast]

8. Mercury Marine is responsible for some of the PCB pollution in Wisc. waterways.

This http://www.mkeriverkeeper.org/content/pcb-contamination-cedar-creek"> Milwaukee County First story on PCB contamination in Milwaukee rivers and parks has a link that discusses this matter.

[dembotoz]

9. i wonder what the reduced wages after coming back from layoff meant.

understand it was like a 30 percent reduction in wages????
who the hell can afford that.

If they shut down the plant for 1 day could they reduce the wages of the whole buch by 30 percent???

It sounded like a straight take it or leave it contract.

Hard to vote down your job, but i understand why it would happen.

[Release The Hounds]

11. According to the JSO article

It would have been about $11/hour for re-hires.

[saigon68]

10. Union Busting

[residentfan]

12. Mercury Motors

has been trying to bust the union for years. They lost, so now they're taking their marbles and moving to some slack jaw yokel state.