Luckily, there will be no layoffs in Schenectady’s building 273 during 2021 due to these simple well known facts:
- Local 301 employees are the most dedicated, energized, and skilled of any GE work force.
- Schenectady’s cost of labor and quality of work is exceptional and has been trending in a very positive direction for years.
- There’s no way that any other factory could possibly do what’s done at Schenectady. The plant and employees are simply irreplaceable.
- The material technology cultivated on the 273 campus is setting the industry benchmark and remains unsurpassed.
- Lean Six Sigma projects continue to drive exponential cost reduction and massive process improvements as they always have for the last decade and a half.
- Union employees regularly celebrate and cultivate strong professional relationships built on mutual respect and clear communication between themselves and technical manufacturing staff.
- Theft of company property, misuse of company time, working while under the influence of dr-gs and alcohol, and unprofessional working relationships are not only strongly rejected by all Schenectady’s blue collar workforce, but also endorsed and reported by them with the intent of strengthening the business that they are part of.
- Hourly workers on the Schenectady campus have a heightened respect for formal, documented manufacturing process’s and abhorrently reject the notion of intentionally breaking from documented manufacturing methods or process steps.
- The typical Schenectady 301 employee puts quality first and is willing to go the extra mile to ensure that his or her product is something that they are proud of.
Anyone that has ever worked in Schenectady’s building 273 knows that with such an exceptional blue collar work force, the business would never even think about reducing the ranks of these dedicated and talented union employees in 2021 with such a massive work load in front of them.