Western Railroad Discussion > _Palmdale CA train car mfg dead

Anybody got more info on this?

Union pressures may have cost Palmdale hundreds of jobs
KABC – Los Angeles 2:24 mins
It was a project that would have generated hundreds of jobs to build train cars in the Palmdale area. But now, Kinkisharyo is pulling out of the deal.

http://abc7.com/business/union-pressures-may-have-cost-palmdale-hundreds-of-jobs/359818/

"The company was set to build a plant on 60 acres near the Palmdale Airport. That is until the company announced it was pulling out of the deal and now looking to build a facility out of state. It blames the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Union (IBEW).

"It's been a great opportunity to be in this city and to work with the people who are managing it, and it's an unfortunate situation we have here," said Donald Boss of Kinkisharyo during a news conference.

In a phone interview, Kinkisharyo officials tell ABC7 that IBEW had asked the company to go around national labor laws and agree to shortcut the process to unionize future workers once the plant was built."

They have more cars to build and will go outside California.
http://www.sfvbj.com/news/2014/oct/13/labor-dispute-kills-kinkisharyos-av-plant/
Roger Beckett

Politics!

Even money they end up in Texas...

Unions are garbage! They were good until the system got manipulated and twisted, it puts all on the same playing field regardless of work ethics.

I always thought unions were supposed to help CREATE jobs, not kill them. Which is what they are doing here, no matter how they try to spin it...

Bill Deaver
Tehachapi, CA

IBEW wanted to use card check method. Company balked, hence the disagreement.

PHall Wrote:
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> Even money they end up in Texas...

yep, all the jobs will be going to low cost southern states.