For many familiar on the subject, this doesn’t come as big news, given that the shut down of the Peterborough plant has been announced in 2017, but it still was sad seeing all those people that lost their jobs. My heart and prayers go to them and their families. For the rest of us, this can come as a reminder that tradition and hard work doesn’t mean a thing in today’s corporate world.
https://globalnews.ca/news/4785466/general-electric-peterborough/
They deserve it more work for 273 we will live forever!!!!!
Why does management still leave at a fast pace? Do they know something we don’t? Did they get a company email stating the worse is still to come? I bet my T Rate Paycheck that More Layoffs are coming. Also I bet next weeks paycheck that the plant will close partially for a while.Next to No work is lined up next year. What little OT the bar shop had is just the 4th quarter push. Merry Christmas to those who will post then quit! Well this is America freedom of speech and freedom to choose. I choose to stay and sit back as this dump falls apart more and more and more
273 will never close because the brownfield in the ground. It would cost GE Billions to clean it. To bad though I hate my job in 273 of late. The board and the ceo will grow a set and have another layoff I would volunteer to leave this time. I would take my IEA Benefit and walk. This plant is so screwed the way they are running it. The good management have left. More are leaving it’s like they know something.
S---s for them but it can't happen to Schenectady!! Nobody can shut us down!!
Very sad especially given the toxic environment and damage the company did to employees and the local citizens.
GE still needs to be held responsible for how they treat employees and the location where they have factories.
For those that don’t know, employees were exposed to more than 3,000 toxic chemicals, including at least 40 known or suspected to cause cancer, at levels hundreds of times higher than what is now considered safe.
Reports are that about 500 lbs. of asbestos were used daily without respiratory protection or proper exhaust ventilation despite company reports showing managers knew the harmful effects of the substance as early as the 1920s and ’30s. Over the years, the company even sold asbestos to workers and the community for pennies a pound to insulate their homes.
https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2017/05/18/ge-workers-paying-price-for-decades-of-exposure-to-toxic-chemicals-report.html
My heart goes out to all the families. I really hope something better comes from this.