Colt tells Connecticut keep your unions

[wetidlerjr]

..One of these days, the unions will go broke from paying workers who are laid off (just another form of welfare) and the light will come on in a lot of union "workers' " heads...

Unions don't pay unemployment compensation in Indiana. It comes from a state fund paid by employers.

 

[JettaKnight]

Unions don't pay unemployment compensation in Indiana. It comes from a state fund paid by employers.

(Some, at least the UAW) Unions do pay a stipend to laid off workers that is in addition to unemployment handouts. This typically comes fund managed by the union.

 

[MAJB Retired]

This is good news!! Makes me want to run out and buy a Colt. CT is a socialist state. Let the makers leave and the takers stay.

I may have to buy a Colt too!

 

[natetheace]

I'm sure this move will bring down the cost of their products. The only fat cats in any company are the ceo's. "Right to work" is just another cute, popular way to break the union's. Next morning when you go to your safe job and work your forty hour work week and get paid overtime and get breaks and get holidays off and get benefits remember that ALL of these privileges were fought for and won by unions. The middle class was made by unions. Just sayin.

 

[wetidlerjr]

I'm sure this move will bring down the cost of their products. The only fat cats in any company are the ceo's. "Right to work" is just another cute, popular way to break the union's. Next morning when you go to your safe job and work your forty hour work week and get paid overtime and get breaks and get holidays off and get benefits remember that ALL of these privileges were fought for and won by unions. The middle class was made by unions. Just sayin.

Exactly ! Some people seem to think if you bust the unions the companies will give all they save to their wonderful non-union workers. Can we all say "A cold day in Hell." ? Ask the former non-contract Delphi retirees what the company did for them. Be careful what you wish for as you might get (and deserve) it.

 

[brutalone]

I'm surprised they waited this long...

 

[wetidlerjr]

(Some, at least the UAW) Unions do pay a stipend to laid off workers that is in addition to unemployment handouts. This typically comes fund managed by the union.

They have Supplemental Unemployment Benefits (SUB) but this a joint union/company plan.

 

[WOLFEMAN]

Way to go COLT!! It may be time for a new COLT investment.

 

[88E30M50]

I have a well paying job, benefits, breaks and holidays off, yet don't work for a union. How can that be? I did work for a union years ago and found them to be all over helping themselves, but useless when I needed them. A lot of unions work by creating a divide between folks that do work and those that manage it, then they convince their members that it's no possible to exist without them. If a union is worthwhile for its members, it should have no problem giving those members a choice. That could bring unions back to truly representing their members instead of their own interests while leveraged on the members backs.

Go Colt!

 

[edporch]

Exactly ! Some people seem to think if you bust the unions the companies will give all they save to their wonderful non-union workers. Can we all say "A cold day in Hell." ? Ask the former non-contract Delphi retirees what the company did for them. Be careful what you wish for as you might get (and deserve) it.

Yes, the owners will pay their employees what the market says their labor is worth or they'll lose them to somebody who will.
And they can even fire the ones they don't want because it's THEIR company.
What a concept!!

And the best most productive workers can advance without being held back by an idiotic "seniority" system that promotes the lazy moron ahead of the productive genius because he hired on 1 day earlier.
What a concept!!

Most people who strive to develop, and have built marketable skills find unions confining and a roadblock to advancement.

Unions are best suited to the type of "worker" who just wants to show up and collect a paycheck while the average pulls them up.

 

[3gunshooter]

They are UAW, I don't understand why you would want to be in a union that funnels a lot of money to the democrats that want to do away with guns. Why the UAW and not a machinist union? All I can say is good for colt.

 

[gunsisgood]

Yes, the owners will pay their employees what the market says their labor is worth or they'll lose them to somebody who will.
And they can even fire the ones they don't want because it's THEIR company.
What a concept!!

And the best most productive workers can advance without being held back by an idiotic "seniority" system that promotes the lazy moron ahead of the productive genius because he hired on 1 day earlier.
What a concept!!

Most people who strive to develop, and have built marketable skills find unions confining and a roadblock to advancement.

Unions are best suited to the type of "worker" who just wants to show up and collect a paycheck while the average pulls them up.

The white hot light of truth,
preach it brother !

 

[MrSmitty]

I wish Kimber and Henry would leave New Yawk, Smith would leave Messachusetts, Springfield, and Rock Island Auction would leave Illinois...oh and any gun company in Khalifornia...leave it, and move to pro-gun states!!!!! ......sorry posted this before reading all of the above comments......I'm just adding my amen!!!

 

[wetidlerjr]

I have a well paying job, benefits, breaks and holidays off, yet don't work for a union. How can that be? I did work for a union years ago and found them to be all over helping themselves, but useless when I needed them. A lot of unions work by creating a divide between folks that do work and those that manage it, then they convince their members that it's no possible to exist without them. If a union is worthwhile for its members, it should have no problem giving those members a choice. That could bring unions back to truly representing their members instead of their own interests while leveraged on the members backs.

Go Colt!

And you can lose that "well paying job, benefits, breaks and holidays off" for no reason with no recourse. Also, union workers (and yourself) do have a choice as they can go to any of the jobs in this country that are non-union.
Your knowledge about unions is limited and your logic is flawed.
I personally don't care if Colt goes to FLA or anywhere else and if they have (or don't have) a union will be up to them and their employees. It's called a "choice". That's one of the things we have in this country.

 

[sbatten]

I know some have said they don't understand why gun companies stay in oppressive states, and I have thought the same thing. A different angle is that maybe the companies don't want to move families. I have customers that have moved from other states and the people that move with the company is only about half. Some people don't want to move away from where they grew up or family and I think companies take that into consideration. Take Springfield for example, if they moved and half of the gun smith's decided they didn't want to leave and they are top notch the company has a big void to fill. Just my 2 cents.

 

[bigcraig]

And you can lose that "well paying job, benefits, breaks and holidays off" for no reason with no recourse. Also, union workers (and yourself) do have a choice as they can go to any of the jobs in this country that are non-union.
Your knowledge about unions is limited and your logic is flawed.
I personally don't care if Colt goes to FLA or anywhere else and if they have (or don't have) a union will be up to them and their employees. It's called a "choice". That's one of the things we have in this country.

As to the part in red, so what?

 

[SSGSAD]

Good for Colt!!! I wish more companies would do this, and wake up those union crazy states.

I don't know why ALL the gun mfg., havn't moved out of the ANTI-GUN, LIBERAL North East .....

 

[wetidlerjr]

And you can lose that "well paying job, benefits, breaks and holidays off" for no reason with no recourse. Also, union workers (and yourself) do have a choice as they can go to any of the jobs in this country that are non-union.
Your knowledge about unions is limited and your logic is flawed.
I personally don't care if Colt goes to FLA or anywhere else and if they have (or don't have) a union will be up to them and their employees. It's called a "choice". That's one of the things we have in this country.

As to the part in red, so what?

Yeah, "Life's hard; wear a helmet."

 

[bigcraig]

Yeah, "Life's hard; wear a helmet."

....and possibly a condom as well.

 

[Limpy88]

ppl move companies to "right to work for less states" because the labor cost less and the dont pay benefits. yet the product continues to cost more.