First Wisconsin casualty of 'Right to Work', major company moving to Minnesota

[Panich52]

Daily Kos
First Wisconsin casualty of 'Right to Work', major company moving to Minnesota
by triumph110

Hoffman Construction, a major road building and mining company is abandoning Wisconsin because of the Right to Work legislation just passed.

According to Duluth News Tribune "Hoffman said Monday night that the reason is twofold: he believes the right-to-work law will ultimately cost his company money, and he sees Minnesota’s proposal to increase transportation funding as offering greater business opportunities."

Some companies realize that union work is an advantage to companies. Working together on problems, joint safety committees, agreeing on other items like seniority, vacation, health care can only make a company stronger.
Hooray for Hoffman Construction Company. Maybe more will follow their lead.

(short piece -- that's it, except f/ embedded links)

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/03/10/1369994/-First-WI-casualty-of-Right-to-Work-Major-company-moving-to-Minnesota?detail=email

[android fan]

1. Walker is just creating major problems for himself.

and his Koch Brothers masters....


When, oh, when will the Koch Brothers be indicted for RICO Act?

[valerief]

5. Walker and his ilk want to *break* the US to *take* it (er, I mean, fix it). nt

[cui bono]

15. Well they better *check* it before they *wreck* it.

[valerief]

17. Bravo!

[Bettie]

18. He figures it won't be his problem

By then, he expects to be "Presidentin'"!

[Sherman A1]

2. K&R

[midnight]

3. Owner said it was economics and not politics. So a Democratic Gov. = better economics.

[Brickbat]

4. It's not abandoning Wisconsin totally. It's expanding its Minnesota office.

Still, remarkable.

[SomeGuyInEagan]

9. True. And looking at where the work is, too.

Our roads in Minnesota are in rough, rough shape. We need serious maintenance (rebuilding, not just repatching) after decades of neglect.

It is so bad in the Twin Cities, that even business groups were behind a state gas tax increase when T-Paw was governor before Dayton and was considering the first raise in the state gas tax since the '80s (I believe) in the wake of the I-35 bridge collapse. But, T-Paw being T-Paw, thought he saw the White House in his future and quickly got back to his "Throw Minnesota under the bus in order to appease national Republican pundits in order to promote T-Paw" agenda (see, we had a Walker before Wisconsin had a Walker, and his name was T-Paw).

Fast forward to now and the roads and bridges are in even worse shape, but the state is now sitting on a $1 billion projected budget surplus and a governor (Dayton) who wants the roads in decent shape and is willing to figure out how to address it.

Follow the money ... always.

[Doctor_J]

6. The mills grind slowly

I hope our 2016 campaign operatives are preparing the ads as we speak. Especially to stress the fact that

Walker's Wisconsin is not an anomaly. This is the attitude of every single Republican in every office in the country.

[oldandhappy]

7. Congratulations Hoffman

[Indydem]

8. Perhaps the folks over at DK need some lessons in reading comprehension

They aren't moving. They are expanding in MN. By 17 employees. Whoop tee do.

http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/business/construction/3696588-wisconsin-right-work-critic-will-expand-company-minnesota

[GusBob]

14. I have been following everything Walker these days

Any story I can get or come across. Because I hate the guy and do not want to see him president.

And yes, a few of the stories stretch the negative a bit much once you scratch the surface. He is not well liked by others I guess.

The bonus though: in every picture with his press, the guy looks like a dork. He always looks like he is saying "derp". Shallow and unfair, but it's true watch for it

[maddiemom]

19. Actually Walker looks more "like a crook" than Nixon.

And it least Nixon was intelligent, despite all the negatives about him.

[AllyCat]

10. God, our state is just more doomed to hell every day

I hate this man, the idiots in the Legislature, and increasingly, the hateful creeps that continue to vote for these policies and their "champions".

[KamaAina]

11. CEO Nelson Muntz says:

[glinda]

12. Ya like we need more mining Companies? Stay away!

[blkmusclmachine]

13. ,

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[Cha]

16. To Gov Mark Dayton territory.. smart move! Mahalo Panich