Thomas Industries closing

[gizmo1979]

WI plant to move to LA.Jindel had a press conference to say how excited he was to steal our jobs.400 good paying jobs that ain't coming back.

[ewagner]

1. Got a link?

I've heard a couple of (right wing) accounts of how this happened. I need some additional sources.

[gizmo1979]

4. Here's an oped from the union

http://www.sheboyganpress.com/article/20090422/SHE0601/904220390/1111/SHE06

[boomerbust]

2. Charlie Sykes says

All Doyles fault. I wonder if they will pay same wages down there. Was that a union shop?

[ewagner]

3. Yup

The right-wing spin is that it is ALL Doyle's fault....

I swear, these Repubs are a "one-trick-pony"

[ewagner]

5. Just read the blogs

in the Sheboygan paper.

Wow!

It looks like management may have been cooking this deal for a long time. It looks like another union busting scheme by management, except that there appears to be a union at the new plant in LA but there's no word on what the wages and work rules are down there...although they did say it's an "open shop" which means that you don't have to belong to a union to work there.

Obviously the repubs are using it to bash Doyle in general and his proposed budget initiatives specifically.

In any case...

it ain't a good deal...