Good luck to all the former GE workers in Schenectady. The Power Division wishes you the best!
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the site inherited the HR wonder that closed Salem. Only a mater of time. its the only thing she can do right with someone holding her hand
GE Schenectady now only has around less than 2,000 employees.
Prior to 1996 when Nardelli tore down 11 buildings and got rid of parts manufacturing and turned it into outsourcing / assembly plant had 3,500 employees. At that time, they made around 50 to 75 steam turbines a year and 150 generators a year. Now the work is very low at around 15 steam turbines a year and around 50 generators a year. To make up for this 30% factory capacity, they have been bringing in parts repair work like turbine rotor and generator rewind work to help get volume up but is basically stable but shell of former self.
Very sad to see this instead of what it used to be
SCHENECTADY IS FOLLOWING DETROIT'S LEGACY:
On Detroit’s east side, the abandoned Packard automaking facility looms tomb-like over 40 acres of once-prime real estate, its hollow buildings ringed with mounds of glass and littered with broken beams and broken dreams. The complex once housed busy workers assembling the cars that connected America, and it once hummed and hissed with the sounds of muscle meeting machinery.
But those sounds are long gone, replaced by the wind through the shattered windows; the scurrying of half-starved rats, picking their way through the rubble; the whispering of spray cans as graffiti artists paint the walls with their kisses of bright red and blue; the crackle of the flames that warm the hands of the homeless.
The complex was abandoned by Packard as long ago as the mid 1950s. And though other companies have found intermittent uses for it in the intervening years, it has remained for the most part a symbol of the decline of a once-great metropolis and its once-great industry, as Detroit the city has now followed GM the company into ignominious insolvency.
This is the story of how a city came to depend too much on one industry, and how one union took over the industry and therefore the town, k–ling both in the process
It's hard to go back to a plant that closed forever. Parasitic Unions are no longer needed. They only want our money.
Uh oh... this might not be good news for all those union workers who claim they can get jobs quickly if they were ever let go.... I wonder how many can actually do real work hahahha
Union ftw!
Shows how ignorant most of the people posting here are. They don't even know what division the work for. Typical 301 zeros.
This is awesome news!!! I hope it happens!!! Sell it off and then the new owners can clean house. Heck!!! Shut this c-ap hole down. It doesn’t deserve to last the way all the senior and higher level people here have been performing.
c'est la vie
Who would want ANY GE division touched be GE’s overpaid leadership? These guys froze our pensions while getting paid $Millions to wreck GE.
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GE looking for a buyer for the steam business.
Only the assets purchased from ALSTOM.
What is happening in Schenectady? They have good amount of work coming their way soon. Cheer up.