The final chapter has been written $20k for t rates and $80 k for d rates plant closing package. The new plant manager will be here to learn from a broken legacy. The t rates who came back again and again on call backs will wish they had not. The d rates pensions will be bought out for a fraction of what they are worth on paper. All the work will be made overseas in state of the art facilities. This my friends is the final chapter for the 301.
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I have been working from home since March. I literally have done no work and get paid 140k/yr. Join a couple meetings a week to do nothing. I have produced no work and completed nothing. Last week I went on vacation without even taking any vacation time and they didn't even know.
They told me I probably will not be back in office until Jan.
Im going to ride this out forever ! I still have 4 weeks to take off.
Places like this really show the hubris of some of the people at our jobs.some of these people at 273 really enjoy the fact that they have different benefit package based on time of service. Like your better or something alot you were just right place right time like we all were when we came to GE.then you have T rates who are waiting for the day GE buys out the D rates pensions, or want the whole place to close just to spite the d rates. Now I'm no longer there but what you guys have going on is a no win situation. Narcissism is strong in 273
Oh and I forgot one thing, good luck with that pension considering the company has a 47 million dollar pension deficit.
Edit my last post-They Can’t Touch The Union Pensions Until 2023. Meanwhile I will keep building mine up on your OT while your sitting home waiting for the call backs to begin.
They can’t touch The union pensions untill 2023
This D Rates can not wait till the T’s are gone so I can get more OT than before. After Every layoff The OT Demand Goes Way Up. It will look good on my best 3 years for my pension.
15UyOImg- The company told the union what they wanted to here. The company plays our union like a fiddle. In October/November the company will prove that the jobs need to be cut.
According to our wonderful officers at the hall no layoffs until next year, these are also the same id–ts that told me I'd get paid for the companies debacle of a layoff, I can only imagine what's in the unions proposal to the company what are they giving up to try to keep jobs here. F– 301 and f– ge
Join a union you will be provided for only for a very short time. Good luck I will become a professional pan handler
Papa's is an inner circle GE 273 thing, kindof like the buddy club/boys club, but Papa's is much different. You can find the Papa's filling up 32 oz containers of hot chocolate and settling in for a nice Netflix movie during a shift.
What are the papas you keep talking about? I know one who used to be in the bar shop who was a blast to work with..(sarcasm)
They can close 273 but the memories are forever. Never thought I could make so much $$ to sleep but 273 made that possible!
"D" Rate = equals a GE workers making $'s at GE that they couldn't make elsewhere, whereby the union (good for them at the time) creates a false economy putting the 301 contract at a cost disadvantage compared to other GE and competitor locations.
@hcc+15UyOImg The D Rates are the equivalent of your parents always talking about how much harder it was before you were around, how you couldn't have survived one minute in their boots back then, how they walked up hill both ways in 5 feet of snow.... even in the middle of summer!! No matter what, it was tougher for them and you as a T Rate will just never be able to measure up no matter what you do. They or another D Rate did it 10 times better once before you. A simple documented history check always shows that they are full of it and are trying to lay claim to a legacy that was built long before they ever started at GE.They think that is why they are worth $10 more an hour than you at the same job. There are several who couldn't even make it through high school but will tell you how smart they are because they are a D Rate. When things go from bad to worse, they will be easily identifiable because they will be the ones panicking the most.
The papa's dont care they cut ties a long time ago
Has anyone.talked to the Papa's and seen what they thought about all of this?????
What exactly are T-rates, D-rates, etc...? Is this back and forth just trash talking between different unions or unions vs. salaried, etc?
Somewhat sounds a little farfetched but not all untrue I do believe there will be layoffs by the end of this year and a bigger layoff at the end of the 1st quarter next year orders are way down for next year and when us t rates got laid off the last time we had like 27 or 29 orders for the year, as of now I believe we only have like 15 to 18 orders the company will not have a need for 800+ people one way or another
If GE can still make a profit with nothing but a bunch of broom pushers, guess what you’ll be demoted to??? They will still maintain ownership for as long as they can be held accountable for the condition of the dirt and water. There is no common sense reason to keep overpriced employees. Better start figuring out how much money you need to live on week to week and what you can sell off. Good chance one day soon you’ll need to immediately know that answer.
Hey id–ts your new order file is off 75% from 3 years ago! This isn't a management or union problem. Demand has plummeted, first due to alternate energy and now with COVID-19.
I'm a US citizen, but if I lived in India, China and Eastern Europe and was buying a turbine or generator, just as I'd say buy American for America's use, I'd say the same as a citizen elsewhere, produce the product where the demand (what little is left) is.
Schenectady will survive but be a shell of what it once was. Maybe repair work and bar shop only. GE can't afford to completely close the site down given the probable soil and groundwater contamination.
Who cares?
Cant be the final chapter, Carm and Jose are gonna save the day, oops i mean Scott and Chris. Like they did years ago when they started giving everything away to GE for the Bat plant and T rates!! Look how much better off 301 is now because of those tough decisions! Add to that, the cmte of clowns being led by Chris is gonna get GE to keep the work here in the states, bring back cranes and other job codes and hire more people. Aren’t they???