Harley threatens to switch Kansas City work to York

I guess that's one way to get the unions to do what you want...and its not like any of these places are going to call Harley's bluff.

Harley, like other big business, is using the Walmart mentality of more profits at the workers cost. They keep this crap up I might have to switch to another american cycle.

My GOD! Can't this company do anything but hang it's laundry out. The ceo was in York and after meetings and a tour of the plant his interview stated that the workers in york understood what Harley was doing, that they get it. Well here's my understanding. DON'T buy a new Harley because the original workers are just waiting for there pink slips so they can exit in a proper manner because they hate the operation and all the misfits that the're hiring. Quality and care is non existent and moral is off the hook!! Take your motorcycle and your ball and go to Mexico.

Most especially in York, PA, with CATERPILLAR tattooed in the back of their minds. But there are always a few fools who attempt to teach the employer a lesson. Still CAT former employees runnin' around with this attitude. We lost our jobs, but damn, we sure showed THEM!

The next step to moving it all overseas and doing away with American labor. No longer the true American Motorcycle .... Such a shame !!!!!!

Yep, same leadership from CAT is at BAE Systems. Dont worry they will take the Bradley work to MI where its cheaper and the buyer is next door. The union leadership doesnt think about the young man who has a family. The old "I've been here for twenty years" additude is going to kill them. Pay your due all the way out the door for all I care. Make sure you union reps continue to charge your due money while they ride around and get out of working.

I'm not worried, I have a job.

What about the new plant that they want to build in India? Take more work for the USA.

More Corporate Profit--AND WE ASK WHAT'S WRONG WITH THIS COUNTRY!!

Harley went from Harley-Amp to the buy out by Harley management and they preached communication with the workers and the union. They had commitees that met and discussed issues and reinvented quality control and they thrived. Now there busting the union, strong arming the work force and changing the policies and structure on a daily basis as they import chinese metals etc. They are the standard of the cancer of manufacturing in this country.

Corp greed doesnt have anything to do with paying someone a high wage in an economy that is failing. Especially using tools that are desinged to make the job eaiser, shop floors that are made to fit the assembler and save money, people getting 30 bucks an hour to take out trash "on a fork lift". This has nothing to do with greed, please walk off the line and have a smoke break, people in other states really want your jobs. Get with it, you are a person who doesnt need a midlevel degree and can match most high paying jobs that required a degree. I got it "ride or die" make sure you wear that shirt in the unemployment office.

York Pa wrote:

More Corporate Profit--AND WE ASK WHAT'S WRONG WITH THIS COUNTRY!!

Yeah imagine that. Corporation trying to make a profit. Will the madness never end.

We will gladly take their work,no problem.Its better than shipping it to India.

Harley is really starting to suck...American bikers are better of buying Hondas, Kaws and Yamahas...even BMW's.
This jerking around the employees...using SLAVE "casual workers" (not that the union at HD helped much).
I remember when some HD managers bought the company from AMF...Harley was a good company then. Now...just a bunch of greedy scumbags running the place.
BTW...think "American Made"??? Next HD you buy...probably be built by a bunch of freakin' Indians (as in subcontinent India).

This company is becoming really good at shaking down the entire community, not just its workers. It got a $10 bribe payment from the state to stay in York. I wonder if this bribe will need to be paid every year. I will never again buy anything from Harley or any of its dealers. These people are just plain hoodlums.

WOW $10 whole dollars for a bribe. Don't let anyone ever say you can be bought cheap.

Carp wrote:

The next step to moving it all overseas and doing away with American labor. No longer the true American Motorcycle .... Such a shame !!!!!!

Take a look at any year of HD along with the same year of any other bike and tell me when HD was not a shame. There's a reason farmers and workers don't drive '48 International pickups today. It's the same reason a bike owner would rather ride 130hp cheap reliable bike rather than an expensive 55hp bike with 40's technology.

I'd like to see things work out for the company and the workers. Sad fact is H-D has been going from plant to plant telling them if they don't agree to some cuts, the work will be moved to one of their other plants. Reality is that H-D like most corporations has the mentality they are the Queen Bee and employees are their drones. I know unions got out of control for the most part, but no one man can negotiate with a company without leverage or backing equal to that company. Probable the only thing that keeps them in the U.S. is so many of us refuse to purchase a foreign bike or automobile and that gives them an edge.

In ten years the average American worker will be making less than $10.00 an hour, for whatever it is that they do.There will have no paid vacations ,holidays,sick days or health insurance.This is how it was before unions, and this is how it will be without unions.You will be working 70 to 80 hours a week mandatory.Do not think it wont happen in the USA, because it already did,before unions.Read your history.Why,children 4-5 years old worked full time.

Pretty soon, all franchisees of Seven Eleven will be able to sell them there as they are building an assembly plant in India.
There goes more jobs overseas as well as Harley Davidson.