Posted: 11/17/2015 10:15:04 AM EDT
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Is on strike.
Regardless of right or wrong or the outcome of the strike, I predict that production will be moved to Mexico and China; its the only way they can stay competitive. Another US company gone, another union ghost town. |
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I was just there over the summer. Not only the design center ( I checked that out too its a really neat mini museum) but the sprawling factory. The footprint of this place is huge, its as large as a small town. (Heck it has a town built around it).
I took a +3 hour walking tour of it. Lead by retired guys, who are in excellent shape and do the tour for extra cash and something to do. It's really antiquated. Sure they stick in modernization where they can but I'd bet they would be better off financially closing it, automating it and starting over in Mexico. Which is really sad. Nature of the beast I suppose. The tour highlighted massive steps in automation and the assembly line made by kholer some 60+ years ago. Really a neat tour. Take it and spend an hour at the design center if you get the chance. I don't know the who's what's or whys but these guys sound like some dumbases. They'll never command near the $$$ kholer is handing them, and from what I've seen and have worked in before in my life, they have it pretty darn good. 
Edit; http://www.sheboyganpress.com/story/news/local/2015/11/16/kohler-strike-snarles-traffic/75867248/ The two tiered wage issue rears its ugly head. Can't raise a family on $12 an hour... I'd be there sticking it out, happy with a good company and working my way up. Or going to school. I've seen this shit at the railyards before. A bunch of envy of guys who had been there 20 years making top dollar, by kids and idiots not wanting to put in their time. Shame. |
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Is on strike. Regardless of right or wrong or the outcome of the strike, I predict that production will be moved to Mexico and China; its the only way they can stay competitive. Another US company gone, another union ghost town. The quality has been in the shitter lately. ^no pun intended. |
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I was just there over the summer. Not only the design center ( I checked that out too its a really neat mini museum) but the sprawling factory. The footprint of this place is huge, its as large as a small town. (Heck it has a town built around it). I took a +3 hour walking tour of it. Lead by retired guys, who are in excellent shape and do the tour for extra cash and something to do. It's really antiquated. Sure they stick in modernization where they can but I'd bet they would be better off financially closing it, automating it and starting over in Mexico. Which is really sad. Nature of the beast I suppose. The tour highlighted massive steps in automation and the assembly line made by kholer some 60+ years ago. Really a neat tour. Take it and spend an hour at the design center if you get the chance. I don't know the who's what's or whys but these guys sound like some dumbases. They'll never command near the $$$ kholer is handing them, and from what I've seen and have worked in before in my life, they have it pretty darn good.
Edit; http://www.sheboyganpress.com/story/news/local/2015/11/16/kohler-strike-snarles-traffic/75867248/ The two tiered wage issue rears its ugly head. Can't raise a family on $12 an hour... I'd be there sticking it out, happy with a good company and working my way up. Or going to school. I've seen this shit at the railyards before. A bunch of envy of guys who had been there 20 years making top dollar, by kids and idiots not wanting to put in their time. Shame. The Kohler family is probably the greatest conservative family in Wisconsin.... German farm immigrants each generation succeeded in bringing something new and innovative to their industry... NRA long term members Very influential in conservative politics and put their money where their reputations are. When they began they paid the highest wages with the biggest benefit packages of anyone in Wisconsin 3 Term Governor Big into Lake Michigan preservation as well as wildlife preservation and hunting.... Major league world class sailors both fresh and salt water They are a family of consummate business people.....Americans in every good sense of that word. Walter Kohler probably Wisconsin's finest governor |