GE celebrates the 1,000 locomotive built at its non-union Fort Worth, Texas plant
Today's new world in building railway locomotives
July 11, 2016
We posted this news story on our Unifor Council 4000 Facebook page.
General Electric (GE) celebrates their announcement of the 1,000 locomotive produced at its Fort Worth, Texas plant, which opened in 2012. The 1,000th locomotive was ordered and will be delivered to CN in Chicago. Perhaps one day you will see CN 3087 pass by a CN rail line somewhere in Canada in the near future.
We wanted to post the story on our website and share it on our Twitter and Google+ feeds too. But not because we share in GE's glory, but to point out the fact that as locomotive production continues at a strong pace, GE also continues to produce significant profits all on the backs of workers as they successfully maneuver in their 'Race to The Bottom'. For those that may not know the meaning of this term, the definition of 'Race to The Bottom' is: "The situation in which companies and countries try to compete with each other by cutting wages and living standards for workers, and the production of goods is moved to the place where the wages are lowest and the workers have the fewest rights."
Please take a moment to read our Facebook post below before reading the story.
And what is also sad is knowing that there are many middle-class or working poor people who post comments in favour of what rich companies like GE and others do for the sake of greater profit, greater greed, at the expense of workers.
Supporting the Race to The Bottom, that earning a fair wage with fair benefits with a wealthy company, and not agreeing to have your wages and benefits rolled back is greedy, and that those that don't have those jobs would gladly do it at half the salary or less. And they blame Unions for companies moving to 'right-to-work' States that pay less, or perhaps outsource jobs even further south to Mexico or oversees to Asia.
Keep in mind that when a worker gets paid a fair wage, they support the local economy by doing more shopping and frequenting more local businesses than what a lower paid work does. Obviously because a worker that is paid half the wage, or paid at minimum wage, can't afford it. In the United States, these workers (Walmart workers as an example) cost U.S. taxpayers and the governments more as they have to resort to applying for food stamps to make ends meet. And they are all forced to shop at Walmart, which perhaps is Walmart's 'modus operandi' in paying low wages.
Just sayin...
General Electric (GE) celebrates their announcement of the 1,000 locomotive produced at its Fort Worth, Texas plant, which opened in 2012. The 1,000th locomotive was ordered and will be delivered to CN in Chicago. Perhaps one day you will see CN 3087 pass by a CN rail line somewhere in Canada in the near future.
We wanted to post the story on our website and share it on our Twitter and Google+ feeds too. But not because we share in GE's glory, but to point out the fact that as locomotive production continues at a strong pace, GE also continues to produce significant profits all on the backs of workers as they successfully maneuver in their 'Race to The Bottom'. For those that may not know the meaning of this term, the definition of 'Race to The Bottom' is: "The situation in which companies and countries try to compete with each other by cutting wages and living standards for workers, and the production of goods is moved to the place where the wages are lowest and the workers have the fewest rights."
Please take a moment to read our Facebook post below before reading the story.
And what is also sad is knowing that there are many middle-class or working poor people who post comments in favour of what rich companies like GE and others do for the sake of greater profit, greater greed, at the expense of workers.
Supporting the Race to The Bottom, that earning a fair wage with fair benefits with a wealthy company, and not agreeing to have your wages and benefits rolled back is greedy, and that those that don't have those jobs would gladly do it at half the salary or less. And they blame Unions for companies moving to 'right-to-work' States that pay less, or perhaps outsource jobs even further south to Mexico or oversees to Asia.
Keep in mind that when a worker gets paid a fair wage, they support the local economy by doing more shopping and frequenting more local businesses than what a lower paid work does. Obviously because a worker that is paid half the wage, or paid at minimum wage, can't afford it. In the United States, these workers (Walmart workers as an example) cost U.S. taxpayers and the governments more as they have to resort to applying for food stamps to make ends meet. And they are all forced to shop at Walmart, which perhaps is Walmart's 'modus operandi' in paying low wages.
Just sayin...
