Mass exodus by choice and some forced out. All locations are trimming fat so they can find a viable suitor for each non performing business unit. Glad I left before more cuts. Poorly ran from the top down, and frankly the union that exists in many locations is the downfall of any company with potential. Less than 7% of companies have unions and they all struggle, all layoff and eventually sell various business units to divest that waste and added expenses that union employees present to companies.
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To say that only Union people were working during covid is misleading. There were many non-union support people also working on site. What is true however, is that most of the leadership was missing. I know for a fact that in clifton, all of the supervisors responsible for directing the activities of Union people were gone. In those departments, the unionized people assumed the role of their absent supervisors. The most senior of those people directed The workflow from the stockroom. They did the scheduling, they assigned the work, they did most of the inspections, and they onboarded new hires which continued during the pandemic. In spite of the fact that no one in human resources was on site either. It was nearly two months before all of the supervisors had returned. Moving forward years later, all of those supervisors are still there. None were laid off but some of the operations people and Union people that held down the ship in their absence were let go.
That is why the assumption that unionized employees are detrimental to their company's success is patently ridiculous Ridiculous!
@dg first off idk where you work but im not union and I had to be on-site through the whole plandemic. So stop running a narrative that only union workers were on-site.
@fq I only know of 3 union people in Clifton, one tester from 3rd shift, and 2 from day shift , one of whom was a new hire and not in the union yet. The other 2 were non union operations people. I don't believe there were 8 people unless you counted the ones that quit during COVID and died after they quit . Even if they contracted it at work, if they died after they quit they are not technically counted as L3 Harris employees.
8 union people from the same site did not die during COVID lmao
@dg I have no problem with the union or any raise the union can negotiate - but to say that 3,000 out of 45,000 were the only ones working on site during COVID is just wrong. Particularly in Operations there were non-union employees throughout the company working on site during COVID. It was not a union vs non-union issue. This board seems to be dominated by disgruntled employees from a particular site that happens to have a union.
Unionized workers in major defense contractors varies from about 12% to about 5%. I don't know where this troll got his or her "facts" from, but they are wrong.
If you don't like the deal you got, you should have never left the union. If you think you're underpaid, go find someone who will pay you more. If you can't find anyone that agrees with your assessment, maybe you need to take another honest look at your real value. And choke down a slice of humble pie while you're at it.
L3Harris has about 3,000 unionized workers in the entire company of over 45,000. The expense to the company is minimal. However, it's important to point out that during the pandemic, the union people were the only ones working on site because they had to. They stood in line in the early hours of the morning to get their temperatures scanned before they could enter. They had to bag their own lunches because the food services were closed. They did the assembly, test, shipping and receiving while those in management hid in their bedrooms pretending to be sick. The work was done on time and under budget without supervision. And, union members did get COVID in higher numbers because the company lied about "sanitizing" their work spaces on alternate Fridays.
(yes this was a deliberate lie to make them feel safe.)
And, some union people died. I knew a few of them. No one from management died from my site but at least 8 union workers did.
So, pack that anti-union nonsense where the sun doesn't shine pal. The union raises didn't take a damn cent from your pocket.
The company gave the biggest raises to the people they considered had the highest value.
Sounds like another disgruntled management person who is pi---d off about the union getting a bigger raise than management.
The company gave bigger increases to the people it could least afford to lose. Get over it.
@bp Agree - plus unions represent such a small percentage of L3Harris workers that they don't have much influence on the overall business. Maybe a couple of individual sites.
Sounds like a bot. What does this, specifically, have to do with present or upcoming layoffs at L3Harris? Unions bad with a small "fact" grabbed from a non-cited source makes it sound like astroturfing. I'm not pro or anti union, I'm not even in one.