Whatever money saving on paper the closing of the Morgantown plant will show, it will hide the future hidden losses and headaches of walking away from a completely trained and experienced management and labor workforce. You just don’t wave a magic corporate wand and have 1500 people who don’t need much training in a complicated process, good luck.
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I Agree with the fact your union is weak (i was part of that) but that isn’t why the plant is closing but it doesn’t help paying janitors $30 an hour either. Your union will not fight for you. I saw that numerous time at the plant ( although illegal because anyone who pays union dues has to be, by law represented, but I saw people fired and the union refuse to represent them) see Zac from night shift fluid bed. Also, your plant is ran by guys that were former coal miners. Other plants have people that are directors with PhDs in PharmD, Biology, or even Business. The leader of our plant were not educated and if they had a 4 year degree they were considered “really smart.” Only pharma plant I have work out, in which the boss has quite a bit less education compared to the people under him or her. But you know what they surround themselves with their hunting buddies or golf buddies and all is good. This is why the plant failed. Terrible structure. Seriously a man who worked for Coke or Pepsi ,who they would not let into management, comes to Mylan and is 3rd in command at the plant with a 4 year degree because of the buddy system. Terrible recruitment and management ability.
This is what happens when you have uneducated idiots who barely made it through high school and a union run by those same uneducated idiots. All these people did for the 10 years I was there was refuse to do their jobs saying that’s not my job and the last two union presidents got everyone of those lazy no good POS their jobs back every time. I would have done the same thing if I was Viatris.
You see these are logical arguments, and thus, why management chose none of them.
Poor management. Poor bargaining unit. Bad attitudes. = unemployment line.
The closing of the plant has nothing to do with distribution it is only to do with the price of labor and the rules regarding pollution. Things can be done in India and China for nickels on the dollar and they can dump the untreated wastewater anywhere they want without any sort of penalty. They also don't have to follow as many safety and employment laws. If someone died at the plant in West Virginia it would be huge news if someone died at a plant in India no one would even know.
The cost of shipping d–gs is nill in comparison to the cost savings they have reaped by moving everything to third world countries.
You would think a serious distribution analysis was done prior to the decision to close the Morgantown plant, but maybe not? If someone was going to pick a perfect location for pharmaceutical manufacturing and direct distribution, finding a place as strategically located as Morgantown WV would be almost impossible to find. Closing this plant is just plain old dumb. See below:
Within a 500-mile radius of Morgantown is 1/2 of the population of the United States and 1/3 of the population of Canada. Morgantown is one day's drive from 6 of the 8 largest U.S. metropolitan areas, 20 metro areas with populations of 1 million or more, and 22 of the nation's top 35 industrial markets.
Interstate
Morgantown is located at the intersection of Interstate 79 and Interstate 68, giving visitors and businesses easy access to large cities in all directions.
North
Pittsburgh, PA ... 77 miles
Cleveland, OH ... 208 miles
Toronto, Canada ... 384 miles
New York, NY ... 393 miles
South
Charleston, WV ... 155 miles
Richmond, VA ... 322 miles
Charlotte, NC ... 385 miles
Norfolk, VA ... 407 miles
West
Columbus, OH ... 205 miles
Chicago, IL ... 528 miles
East
Washington, D.C. ...218 miles
Baltimore, MD ... 225 miles
Philadelphia, PA ... 327 miles
Morgantown Radius