129 layoffs coming at Pratt & Whitney
From the MRJ:
Jet engine maker Pratt & Whitney will lay off 129 hourly workers at the company's Cheshire engine repair plant. The job cuts are needed, the company said, because there is not enough work....
The International Association of Machinists, which represents the workers, questioned the job cuts, saying in a prepared statement that hourly workers have been putting in 10-hour days, instead of the usual 8-hour shifts, and have been asked to come in on Saturdays.
And here's an interesting Daily Kos youtube clip on America's recent jobs trend:
Tim White
19 comments:
Funny, all those yellow counties without much unemployment are those hard core Republican parts of "Jesusland" the yuppies living on credit cards love to sneer at
No...Its energy and beef country...something else the lefties love to hate. They can't shut the entire country down. Wait until we get all those terrific electric cars...things will get so much better...we'll see blue everywhere.
Notice how New Hampshire's yellow sticks out on the map. NH has the lowest unemployment east of the Mississippi, and the fourth lowest unemployment in the US at just over 5%. And NH produces neither energy nor beef, just fiscal responsibility.
So how's that Hope & Change thing going for you libruls? Oh right, its all Bush's fault.
New Hampshire of which I am a resident, has a minimum wage lower than Connecticut. Connecticut has shot itself in the foot with the 8,25 per hour min wage. Kansas of which I also am a resident, has a much lower min wage than Connecticut, New Jersey and California all which now have high min wages that repel businesses from hiring. New Hampshire also has NO SALES TAX and NO STATE INCOME TAX.
Also, you can be a liberal and live in a blue state. I love kansas and new hampshire. Maybe if Connecticut had gotten some ARRA funds to do road work like New Hampshire and Kansas have and stops paying clerks $50,000 a year to do crossword puzzles at work it would help.
Cindy,
Liberals (their elected governments) make up the majorites in blue states. Did you mean "you can be conservative and live in a blue state? Now here is another point to ponder...How long can a liberal live in a red state before they start trying to screw it up?
Answer...not very long at all. New Hampshire will have trouble before you know it as it is populated to the south by liberals from Massachusetts.
Cindy, do each of the voices in your head have different residency states or do you all live in one?
The liberal refugees from Mass. who move to New Hampshire want to avoid high Mass. income and sales taxes, yet they still push NH to adopt liberal spending policies. Like liberals everywhere, they want much spending as long as OTHERS have to pay for it.
To 1:04-boy am I glad I don't live with you-you worthless coward that can't put your name on anything. First of all my home in New Hampshire is at 132 Yasmin Drive, Gilford 03249. My CONDO in Florida is at 501 East Bay Drive Unit 502, Largo Fla 33770 and Nicholson Rd Chapman KS 67431. To get back to people who write legitimate responses, New Hampshire's property tax is VERY HIGH. My home is 1600 sq ft in New Hamphire. I pay the same property tax as in Cheshire-my HUSBAND's HOME-NOT MINE-is 2800 sq ft-same prop tax as Cheshire and Gilford only has 6,000 people because the wealthier communities have to give to communities with less wealth for education purposes.
Cindy:
How many of those P & W employees were really making minimum wage?
I think it has more to do with having to pay higher wages to compete in this state. Connecticut's cost of living is one of the highest in the country, that is why we are losing these industries.
You can't expect the state to lower the minimum wage. People can't even live in this state for $17,160 per year?
Comparing CT with NH is like comparing apples with oranges. No comparison.
Yeah, we can all be hedge fund managers and celebrities....because the whole state is Greenwich.....oops, most of CT is a lot more like NH than the Gold Coast.
To 1:51 that is true- I lived in Danielson CT when I worked for the Norwich Bulletin in 1979. That part of the state is really POOR!! Also,most of new hampshire is minimum wage but the state garners a lot of income from tourism, people who pay property tax but don't use the services. I now see a lot of New Jersey going up there now But I also do not want New Hampshire to change. Places like Manchester new hampshire and nashua, right on the mass line and close to ct are mobbed now with tax free school shoppers and christmas time is even better. I will tell you, the Weirs Beach area is desolate except for weekends. many places have closed, the housing market is stagnant. I lost $60,000 on my home over the past five years and Gilford assesses every year at 100 percent interest. it is slowly going up, but I don't believe it will ever reach what it was several years ago. Florida is also getting expensive especially around the Tampa area. Oh I also own my mom's house in Stratford on 60 Beth Drive. Not bad for a girl who hears voices!!!
RE: New Hampshire pays high property taxes.
True, but people who move to NH from Mass. have calculated that lack of state income and sales taxes more than makes up for higher property tax. Same goes for businesses which move to NH or choose to stay in NH. Hence lower unemployment.
I love how the trailer park trash crowd takes over this blog every once in a while.
Doesn't seem like anyone care about Pratt & Whitney people losing their jobs. They want to send the work overseas. So instead of experienced P & W workers in Cheshire inspecting engines, you'll have someone overseas inspecting them.
I'd rather see someone getting paid a decent wage and doing a good job than someone getting paid less and not really knowing or caring what they're doing.
Funny, all those yellow counties without much unemployment are those hard core Republican parts of "Jesusland" the yuppies living on credit cards love to sneer at
They have neither much unemployment nor much employment. Go to a job service like Indeed.com and punch in "Connecticut" in the search and you'll get about 60,000 job openings. Type in "South Dakota" and you'll get about 8,500.
That's the nature of the states. It's got nothing to do with the numbers of Republicans living there.
Those "Jesusland" states also worship at the altar of the federal government (or at least show up when the basket is being passed). They get huge financial assistance from the feds.
North Dakota gets 50 percent of its revenue from the federal government.*
* Francis Ziegler, North Dakota DOT Director, MinotDailyNews.com/ April 2010
Hate to burst your bubble but the average TX suburb has created more net jobs in the past decade than the entire state of CT has in three
Yeah, and.....
Their schools stink
The rodeo is their top cultural event
The wheels on their homes go round and round
They find future spouses at family reunions
Great high school football, though.
8/24 - 2:10PM
I care about the P&W workers but was their Union leadership and the state leadership of years past (not just this super majority Dem crowd) thinking about the long range impacts of union packages that have resulted in a high wage state, high tax state,high utility rate state, etc. So much for qualitity of life if we have to starve.
Every nmanufacturer in the country has to contend with low wage China and they also have to make a lot of these deals partnering with other countries but lets face it CT is at the very top of the scale on evreything now including manuafacturing job losses.
And if you think I'm happy with shop stewards crowding around our elected officials because a federal judge agreed Pratt must stay another year that doesn't bode well for a long term fix for Connecicut business.
What a welcome...Connecticut will sue if you try to leave....The revolution can't begin soon enough. Vote the dopes out this November. Their wisdom has betrayed us.
Tim Slocum
Companies do not leave the US and move to Asia because of wages; they leave because of taxes. It is true the average wage of an asian worker is less than an American what is not told to you the company must pay the wage plus a minimum of an additional 20% into the employees retirement and medical fund. The reason companies move to Asia is not to pay corporate taxes. Any American firm that moves to Asia ans sets up their sales through an Asian office does not have to pay taxes on that revenue. The average cost of labor in a manufactured product is less than 2% of the the total cost of manufacturing. If you think that companies move to save some percentage of 2% of the cost then you have been mislead. We move for the reduction in corporate taxes
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