Corporation buys a company here and dumps ALL employees.

[dixiegrrrrl]

We have a lot of pulp and paper mills around here, locally owned.
One of them sold out to Georgia Pacific, which offered ALL employees early retirement
packages.
the local newspaper reported that most of the employees took the offers,
but that "some employees will remain on the job for a few weeks to train their
replacements".
And in the paper is an Georgia Pacific ad, hiring new workers, for less money and benefits
than the former employees made.
I know this because a neighbor is one of the "early retirement" employees, who told me it was made clear ALL former employees were going to be let go, so that is why they took the
retirement package.
NO union.
I watched this happen in Silicon Valley earlier this decade, the people being discharged had to
train the HB-1 workers coming in from India.

[Kookaburra]

1. Isn't G.A a Koch company?

[dixiegrrrrl]

3. Dunno..is it?

this is a red state, that is for sure. ( she said, keeping her chin up bravely)

[Kookaburra]

5. Sorry -- meant G.P.

I've got a cold, and making typos aplenty today.

I believe Georgia Pacific is a Koch company.

[dixiegrrrrl]

6. Ding Ding!!! You are right!

Wiki confirms:

It is a division of the private US conglomerate, Koch Industries.

Crap....

[Andy823]

2. The republican plan!

The whole mess we are in now has helped the rich, wall street, the banks, and the big corporations. It has done what they wanted. Given them a cheap labor force! Millions of people were laid off from work and have been unable to find work. Now after sitting on millions and billions of dollars, the corporations will start buying out the small companies that can't make it, and replacing the work force with cheaper labor because there are so many people out there that need work of any kind, and are willing to work for less money!

If republicans get back in charge, they will be pushing to invade Iran, and any other country in the middle east they think they can get control of their natural resources, namely OIL! They want continues wars to keep the war machine moving so the corporations that produce the materials to fight these wars will keep on growing. They also need on other thing, SOLDIERS! With a terrible economy, low paying jobs, and no other choices, they will be able to fill the ranks of the military with our children and grand children to fight their needless wars!

We have to get the left out to vote so this does not happen, and we need to keep pushing the president and especially congress to stop what is happening, and get us back on track instead of back to fighting war after war so the rich can get richer, and the rest of us become slave labor or cannon fodder!

[OHdem10]

4. "hiring new employees at lower salaries and lower benefits",

perfect example of Globalizations harmonizing downward.

Companies are and have been in the process of lowering
salaries and benefits. Globalization goal is to have
salaries more equal around the world. We are having
our living standards lowered.

Poorly managed Trade policies have lead to this crisis.
When Labor Agreements were made there was no insistence
that the other countries raise their living standards.

Instead our living standards are being brought down.

[jtuck004]

7. Then they have won. Unless people organize and compete.

At this point I don't see any other way. If it is really a lot of HB-1 visa workers the only thing to do is use the early retirement money to buy the company or buy a competitor. Less jobs, but those that went after it could share in the overhead and profit, and probably net more that you ever would as an employee.

Is there another way to compete? Changing laws seems like an unlikely cure in a globalized world...

I do wonder how the management employees, some of whom may not have been included in "ALL employees", did with this, espcially the change was in their net worth, options, stocks, any performing assets...

[girl gone mad]

8. k & r