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Is something missing here?

Posted by Peter Rosa on Fri Aug 15 10:42:05 2025

GE Appliances has announced a $3 billion investment in its US manufacturing facilities, as it shifts appliance production back to the US from overseas:

The company’s plan includes upgrades to plants in Kentucky, Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee and South Carolina, with a focus on automation, advanced technology, and increased output across all product lines, including air conditioning and water heating systems.

Maybe I have poor reading comprehension, but it seems as if some place is missing from that list of states. Some place that ****desperately**** needs jobs.

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Re: Is something missing here?

Posted by AlM on Fri Aug 15 11:10:33 2025, in response to Is something missing here?, posted by Peter Rosa on Fri Aug 15 10:42:05 2025.

They're all states that forbid a company from negotiating a union shop with its workers.


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Re: Is something missing here?

Posted by Olog-hai on Fri Aug 15 14:05:17 2025, in response to Is something missing here?, posted by Peter Rosa on Fri Aug 15 10:42:05 2025.

LOL! And you still won't say why.

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Re: Is something missing here?

Posted by Peter Rosa on Fri Aug 15 14:08:50 2025, in response to Re: Is something missing here?, posted by AlM on Fri Aug 15 11:10:33 2025.

It makes less than zero sense for any company to build a large factory in the city, what with the unions and hyperinflated construction costs and difficult transportation and undoubtedly much else, UNLESS the city gives enormous subsidies. Which it won’t do.

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Re: Is something missing here?

Posted by AlM on Fri Aug 15 14:43:13 2025, in response to Re: Is something missing here?, posted by Peter Rosa on Fri Aug 15 14:08:50 2025.

Large factories don't get built anywhere in the United States that has a population density that is even remotely close to that of Queens, much less Brooklyn, the Bronx, or Manhattan.

It's not as though large factories in Austin TX get built in downtown either. They get built in what was farmland or forest.

The last big farm in Queens became part of an expanded Aqueduct parking lot in the 1950s.



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Re: Is something missing here?

Posted by Orange Blossom Special on Fri Aug 15 15:31:49 2025, in response to Is something missing here?, posted by Peter Rosa on Fri Aug 15 10:42:05 2025.

Kentucky, Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee and South Carolina,

It's a list of Trump states with a willing workforce.

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Re: Is something missing here?

Posted by Orange Blossom Special on Fri Aug 15 15:32:48 2025, in response to Re: Is something missing here?, posted by AlM on Fri Aug 15 11:10:33 2025.

"states that forbid a company from negotiating a union sh"


lol. false

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Re: Is something missing here?

Posted by AlM on Fri Aug 15 16:25:08 2025, in response to Re: Is something missing here?, posted by Orange Blossom Special on Fri Aug 15 15:32:48 2025.

Huh?

A "union shop" is a facility where, if you are hired into a specified job category, you have x days to join the union after you are hired, or else the company agrees to fire you.

There is very clear information that this arrangement is forbidden in those states.



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Re: Is something missing here?

Posted by Orange Blossom Special on Fri Aug 15 19:02:00 2025, in response to Re: Is something missing here?, posted by AlM on Fri Aug 15 16:25:08 2025.

Not what you said. What you said is very false. Changing the entire meaning of your post won't fix it.

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