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BMW, Teamsters: BMW layoffs exemplify the evisceration of the middle class - latimes.com
It's okay though, because the rich people who have the lowest tax rate ever will be creating new jobs. I read it right here, folks.
Every working American should be dismayed by — and afraid of — what BMW is doing.
It's okay though, because the rich people who have the lowest tax rate ever will be creating new jobs. I read it right here, folks.
By all accounts, BMW's parts distribution warehouse in Ontario was one of the jewels of the company's system.
Supplying dealer service departments throughout Southern California, Arizona and Nevada, it received gold medals from BMW for its efficiency and employed several of the top-ranked workers in the country. In the roughly 40 years its workers had been represented by the Teamsters union, there had never been a labor stoppage.
Times being what they are, when a Teamsters committee came to the plant in early June to open negotiations over a new contract to start Sept. 1, they thought they might be asked to accept minuscule wage increases and maybe some givebacks on health coverage.
They were stunned by what they heard instead: As of Aug. 31, the plant would be outsourced to an unidentified third-party logistics company and all but three of its 71 employees laid off.