Jeffersonville shipyard may hire 400

You can't run a rail to every single storefront, and rivers only flow where nature puts them.

You still need good roads.

Sir Hailstone wrote:

You can't run a rail to every single storefront, and rivers only flow where nature puts them.
You still need good roads.

Well put.

This will help those 10500 autoworkers who look to lose their jobs.

Hmmmm....jobs coming to a city that has passed a smokefree indoor air ordinance even though businesses don't like being told what to do. Jobs leaving a blue-collar area of our State where smoking is prevalant and so are the health related side effects. The Governor is encouraging communities to pass smokefree air ordinances because workers become healthier which drives down the cost of healthcare insurance and improves the bottom line for businesses while at the same time reducing the economic and health burden on all Hoosiers.

Just making sure I understood the scenario.

Think smoking doesn't cost everyone of us? Ask those who are losing their jobs when business move to other states where the employees are healthier and healthcare costs are the same. Remember that each and every household in Indiana now contributes more than $700 annually to pay for smoking related health care costs in our state.

Perhaps Mitch IS on to something here.....

CommonCents wrote:

Hmmmm....jobs coming to a city that has passed a smokefree indoor air ordinance even though businesses don't like being told what to do. Jobs leaving a blue-collar area of our State where smoking is prevalant and so are the health related side effects. The Governor is encouraging communities to pass smokefree air ordinances because workers become healthier which drives down the cost of healthcare insurance and improves the bottom line for businesses while at the same time reducing the economic and health burden on all Hoosiers.
Just making sure I understood the scenario.
Think smoking doesn't cost everyone of us? Ask those who are losing their jobs when business move to other states where the employees are healthier and healthcare costs are the same. Remember that each and every household in Indiana now contributes more than $700 annually to pay for smoking related health care costs in our state.
Perhaps Mitch IS on to something here.....

You know, one would think that if every single household pays $700 for smoking related illnesses in the state of indiana, community health centers such as the one I manage would see more indigent patients with smoking related illnesses. Please dont buy into those bogus numbers.

CommonCents wrote:

Hmmmm....jobs coming to a city that has passed a smokefree indoor air ordinance even though businesses don't like being told what to do. Jobs leaving a blue-collar area of our State where smoking is prevalant and so are the health related side effects. The Governor is encouraging communities to pass smokefree air ordinances because workers become healthier which drives down the cost of healthcare insurance and improves the bottom line for businesses while at the same time reducing the economic and health burden on all Hoosiers.
Just making sure I understood the scenario.
Think smoking doesn't cost everyone of us? Ask those who are losing their jobs when business move to other states where the employees are healthier and healthcare costs are the same. Remember that each and every household in Indiana now contributes more than $700 annually to pay for smoking related health care costs in our state.
Perhaps Mitch IS on to something here.....

I am a smoker and dont pay 700 dollars a year in smoking related healthcare costs......where do you live?

CommonCents wrote:

Hmmmm....jobs coming to a city that has passed a smokefree indoor air ordinance even though businesses don't like being told what to do. Jobs leaving a blue-collar area of our State where smoking is prevalant and so are the health related side effects. The Governor is encouraging communities to pass smokefree air ordinances because workers become healthier which drives down the cost of healthcare insurance and improves the bottom line for businesses while at the same time reducing the economic and health burden on all Hoosiers.
Just making sure I understood the scenario.
Think smoking doesn't cost everyone of us? Ask those who are losing their jobs when business move to other states where the employees are healthier and healthcare costs are the same. Remember that each and every household in Indiana now contributes more than $700 annually to pay for smoking related health care costs in our state.
Perhaps Mitch IS on to something here.....

The chemicals that are put on our lands to grow food products & then given to our animals to eat & then the growth harmons that are given to the animals. When you put a chemical on land to keep weeds out all summer, or to make it grow bigger then it has to go some place like in our foods. Then the vegetables & meats that we eat hurt us more than the smoking. Not saying smoking is good for you, but everything is blamed on smoking.

Would like to know what a welder gets paid @ Jeffboat & are they union.

I can tell you what a welder makes and it isn't much. Depends on the Class of the welder, Class A starts out around 15.00 per hour and goes down from there. The health insurance isn't too bad from what I know but they do work long hours in very hot weather and very cold weather. Lots of welding flash--not much pay to put up with what they do.

My brother in law has worked there for many years, probably 30 or longer and he has seen the good, the bad, and the ugly. Mostly the ugly though. There is alot of politics there, but that comes in to play almost everywhere you work. They do not care about the employees, at all, unless you have a mgmt position, and there is very few of those. Their rules apply to only the ones they are trying to force out. They tried firing him and he got his job back, because they only fired him and not the others involved. It was a dispute between him and his boss, and his boss actually touched him and pushed him. He got his job back with back pay, and they are watching him like a hawk. The palce is so over rated. I know many other people that work there also, and they are there only because they need a job. The conditions are horrible, and I am not talking about the weather.

my dad work there for 34 years and retired back then it was a good place to work it kept his family feed and clothed those people were paid to a fair wage for a a fair days work wages now were a hole lot less than what there getting in todays time so thank your luck stars that you even have a job if the you people that are comlaineing would keep your month shut and do your jobs that you are being paid to do you wouldnt get fired

I work at Jeffboat, they are definaltey not hiring.. actually laying off.. we had 1200 employees last summer and now have around 600. and that will go lower when we go back after the new year..

welders make around 21.00 dollars a hour and it is union which is not doing a good job lately !!