Any idea how much Honeywell is spending on the contingency workforce? Including labor, hotels, meals etc?
What bucket of Honeywell pays for all of this?
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Looks like the contract was accepted so no strike. All of aero thanks you. Now find. Better job before the next contract.
So you want to trust scab brakes on your next airbus flight? Or trust those high tech systems to a military plane with scab brakes? The accidents are already happening...
OK so let's look at the situation... The Twin Cities Honeywell businesses manufacture mission critical defense related articles at reasonably high volumes. High reliability electronics/sensor manufacturing requires highly skilled technicians. The primes, Lockheed - Boeing - Raytheon etc have a major stake in what happens if 1145 strikes. I can't imagine a ready force of labor is ready to swoop in if the strike happens. No one really cared about South Bend because the USA isn't going to nuke anyone soon. We all care that our precision weapons and advanced Honeywell technologies continue to fight the GWOT. It seems to me that 1145 has a respectable amount of leverage in this situation. If Honeywell decides to dig in on this negotiation and can't deliver to the GWOT effort then we will all be reading about this on the front page of the Wall Street Journal or better yet the Drudge Report.
In case you don't have a calculator, that's $375,000 for each union employee in South Bend and Green Island. They clearly are wanting to make a point, and it isn't that they don't have the money to pay for whatever contract you asked for.
Here in South Bend where we been locked out for nine months Honeywell Said they have 150 million in strick contention so you have a long wait if you get locked out.
Strike insurance. Production replacements have already been identified and trained. Total burden is not huge. Good luck guys. Wish your union was available to me.