Thread regarding General Electric Co. layoffs

No guts no glory for 301

I will use this place he's division of ,273 as an overnight job I have a new work from home job I don't pay for any benefits at I do them through GE I will stay here until the ship sinks I have a nice hole in 273 on 3rd shift most nights no work let the good times roll! See you guys on pizza night

You mean I can't keep my job getting paid $40 an hour and spending 8 hours a day making one $5 widget a day?? The Union says I'm skilled and worth every dollar. I can even take my time so I can come in this Saturday and get paid $60 an hour to do what I should have done yesterday. You know, Union Protection, I'm senior, D-Rates rule, and all that stuff! You make it sound like "Common Sense" should be common!

Why all these dumb a– posts about the union? Whatever the problem with the union they are "below the fold" in newspaper where the headlines for POWER are orders are off 42% YoY. Do expect the union to bargain to save the union jobs when there is reduced demand?

What will be worse is the outcome on the other end if this happens and I'm sure it will. If any of them get called back I predict that 80% or more will turn it down. So they will have to fill that void with new hires. Nobody with any skill value will bother risking the highly probable chance that the diabolical that is GE will repeat again. People want a career, not a short term gig. We will experience the lowest skilled new hires we have ever accepted that will be there for nothing more than to just get paid. They won't even be interested in learning a skill and being good at it. All it will add to is the current decline. Nothing good will come from this now or ever. I can't believe GE has gotten as bad as it has. It is at an unimaginable level.

Hearing 125 to 150 301 members and 25 to 50 non union from schenectady, by the end of august beginning of september

SF should be impeached he cares little for 301 just a path to a National job like RM

Wait for the U.S. Department of Labor to get done with their audit. Everyone will see how much damage RM, SF, and a few others did. We have one man in that hall who’s honest and believes in what the Union stands for, MS. The truth WILL come out, wait for it. Better days are coming. It takes time to sort through the mess and get rid of the trash. I’m guessing there must be a reason MS and JC refused to sign off on the Consolidation Agreement while RM and SF were all for it. It’s not working and destroying us, my trust is with MS for trying to do the right thing then and standing his ground. He’s now the only one I trust at that hall.

All the T Rates are nervous the ones who stay will end up on 3rd shift. Me I will be on first shift getting more OT for my pension

For some of us, GE isn't everything that we have going for us. Some of us have our own golden parachutes ready to deploy and vacations we want to plan. It would be easier to schedule if I knew when the layoffs would happen. It's better for me to be perceived as having nothing when I'm made to leave. I'll be sure to act beat down and maybe I'll even be able to squirt a tear or two if the time actually does comes. If the truth we're known, I wouldn't even receive the fake sympathy or a sandwich on my way out the door. Don't you worry, I'll be laughing and smiling on my way home because I know what I won't be returning to the next work day. My breakfast sure will taste great that morning!

@1ujx+16fFXeAF Why do you want to know when the big layoff is? Your probley one of the ones who came back from the callbacks after you said you wouldn’t. They will be here by months end don’t you worry. Your overtime will be safe with me.

Actually your wrong the stipends are direct payments from 301 to certain officers over and above what the company pays for wake up your being screwed

Actually these post are half right/wrong. The contract calls for union paid union business (UBUP) and company paid union business (UBCP). Some items like pursuing grievances, labor-management meetings, etc. are UBCP per the CBA. In case of an officer attending a IUE Board Meeting (one 301 person is on the Board), the local would pay and then get reimbursed either by actual amount or stipend,

I don't really care who pays who I just want to know when the big layoffs of 2020 are gonna happen.

the stipends are are on top of what the company pays check the financial report its comes out of the dues ny dol took copies of the finances to investigate misuse of funds

Actually the company pays their salary or a portion of it at least

stipends come from the local not the national read the financial report under salaries your paying for them with your dues this is wrong in many ways

Everytime I hear in the news how working people need to unionize, and how the evil corporations are working to destroy unions, I feel bad for the unions. Everytime I have to deal with a union employee in real life, in 30 seconds I feel like cursing them out. I had a union guy charge 8 hours to put a flare fitting nut on a quarter inch tube end. 1 tube - 1 day.

The only reason we work on a Saturday is be because we spend Monday-Friday sandbagging any production. So we have to work Saturday is we're going to make schedule. The only way there will be a united walk is if there is a Hoveround supplied for each and every member who attends. Have you seen these slugs? I'm surprised most don't walk around with supplied oxygen. Not because they are in poor health. Several are in pathetic health but because they are too lazy to use their own lungs to breathe in normal air. You expect these people to walk on a Saturday without overtime pay?? Don't fool you self into believing GE isn't taking notice!! Everybody is trying to get theirs before it's all over.

I work at a non-union GE facility, of which are many, and I envy the union "problems" you complain about. We are paid considerably less, less benefits, higher out of pocket expenses, no locked in raises or lump sum payments over four year periods, and very little recourse for disciplinary action against us. During this layoff, seniority is of very little value here. At least you have a structured procedure based on seniority and job classification. In fact, seniority can be a bit of a liability in our non-union facility. Why not get rid of an older, less productive worker? Not to mention the more vacations and health liabilities the more senior employees have. ? Just remember, everyone gets old if they live long enough. Everyone. Performance and merit can be included in a union shop. Here, where I work, performance is not actually paid a premium. We rely on "local market wage" to determine our pay. So go on and complain.

The reason no one cares about unions anymore is because they've just become a methodical way for old people to use seniority to protect jobs over actual performance and merit.

OP: me. me. me. me some more. me. me. me!

The 301 hall was to busy counting the stipend they receive from national to be worried about you having a job. Just look at the Union “leadership”, the hall is filled with a bunch of mini mes, nepotism at its finest. Nothing with the 301 is going to change with the current hall occupants.