Good morning friends! I'd like to pass on some encouraging things I've seen this past week. Despite the overall trend of jobs moving offshore, there is still considerable manufacturing going on in this country. After looking for a decent job in Fla. for 10 months, I came up to Pa. and am driving truck again. I was very pleasantly surprised to find Caterpillar is still having radiators made in York, with copper tubes made in Altoona, Pa, out of copper actually made in the USA. A lot of packaging industry and food manufacturing and distribution around this area also. The Florida economy is so dead, it seems like boom time here in the NorthEast. And of course, Harley's are still made in York.
But that's another sad story about corporate greed. Harley threatened to shut down York operations unless the union agreed to big paycuts etc. Union agreed and then the company proceeded to lay off something like 1200 workers anyway - then offered them part-time, no benefit, big paycut jobs. Guess what? They posted record profits last year and their new slash and burn scumball CEO got a several million $ bonus. What a shame. Harley used to be the best company in the country to work for, now their just like all the rest - screw the employees and put it all in upper management's pockets.
Thank a soldier this Memorial Day,
Dumb Farmer
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So glad you are working again. Miss you in FL. There is one MORE great reason NOT to buy a Harley!!!
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