House Speaker Paul Ryan visited a Harley plant in Wisconsin in September and said, “Tax reform can put American manufacturers and American companies like Harley-Davidson on a much better footing to compete in the global economy and keep jobs in America.”
Many Harley-Davidson workers wondered if the tax cut would trickle down to help employees. But a recent CNBC survey found that only 10 companies in the S&P 100 say they have specific plans to use the savings to boost worker pay.
Workers were taken aback by the decision to close the plant. “You could see it on everybody’s faces, just shock and awe,” recalls Primeaux. “It was like I was in a bad dream, just stuck in it.”
Harley is also building a new plant in Thailand. However the company maintains that the Bangkok plant is “separate and unrelated” to the decision to close the Kansas City plant, according to Michael Pflughoeft, a spokesman for Harley-Davidson.
The company calls the closing of the Kansas City plant a tough decision but says domestic sales are down and it needed to “address the excess capacity in the U.S.”
But some Harley employees in Kansas City believe that their plant was closed to make money for the Bangkok one.
“They are sending our jobs overseas. Absolutely,” said Rick Pence, a machine repairman in the maintenance department.
Kevin Amos, a union president at Harley who has worked there for 17 years, said he asked company executives multiple times what it would take to keep the company in Missouri and was under the impression that workers were doing everything to ensure that the company stayed.
Burgerman wrote:Imagine...And maternity pay, restricted practices and hours, unions, making businesses employ several people to do the job of one, holiday pay, redundancy pay, medical insurance in the US, sick pay, etc .
Me: Imagine...And maternity pay, restricted practices and hours, unions, making businesses employ several people to do the job of one, holiday pay, redundancy pay, medical insurance in the US, sick pay, etc .
SA Communist: Yes life can be wonderful!
Burgerman wrote:Me: Imagine...And maternity pay, restricted practices and hours, unions, making businesses employ several people to do the job of one, holiday pay, redundancy pay, medical insurance in the US, sick pay, etc .
SA Communist: Yes life can be wonderful!
Why do you think the US is the richest country in the world, and the most capitalist one too: And why do you think the opposite is true of every socialist country in history,
Here is one for you! Are you willing to give up your NHS? YOU have that we don't...
Oh and as to your "opposite is true of every sccialist country" is nothing more than your TRUMP STYLE of pointless apples and oranges reasoning.
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