yamaha bites the dust- Conn-selmer next ?

[connedbyselmer]

The Music Goes Quiet At Yamaha's US Plants
Manufacturing.net, NJ - Feb 8, 2007
... including Yamaha Musical Products, Inc. (YMP), Grand Rapids, Mich.; Yamaha Music Manufacturing, Inc. (YMM), Thomaston, Ga; and Yamaha Exporting, ...

[connedbyselmer]

Striking workers at conn-selmer division of Steinway musical will see this morally bankrupt company exposed for the treatment of their workers over the past few years. Instead of us striking workers paying for their shipment of our jobs overseas ,by taking a concession contract, we will do everything to help them speed up the process like Yamaha is now doing.
Conn-selmer's unethical leadership, and shady business practices will sooner or later catch up with them and then everyone can see that who ever buys their products or stock is supporting people with questionable character and people that associate with the criminal element.
With Steinway(lvb) paying their first SPECIAL $3.00 STOCK DIVIDEN ever, after a year of questionable success how much money do you think all the" UPPER MANAGEMENT INSIDERS" will make?
Messina is still looking at a $2,000,000.00 + mistake he made with woodwindbrasswind when he played "NOW I WANT IT, NOW I DON'T".
Us Striking workers and Dennis Bamber of WWBW will be laughing at and rubbing the little mans nose in it if the courts rule in our favor.
Inogrant management decisions at the top need to punished.

[tom turner]

Yep, they'll be gone soon too.

If I remember how the strike started . . . The company asked the workers to take a deep pay and benefits cut, in order for Selmer Bach to keep production in America, rather than move it to China.

Well, the union said "no way," and the result is a sad mess for the fine workers at the Selmer/Bach plant.

Also, since then, Yamayuk has executed the same move themselves, but without giving their workers any chance of keeping their jobs.

These two developments may very well seal the fate of the Selmer/Bach plant's ultimate future, and only give Selmer/Bach management one way to survive . . . and that is to do what Yamayuk did to their workers, and shut the Selmer/Bach plant without much warning.

It seems the handwriting is on the wall, but that people didn't believe what they were hearing from management. At least the Selmer/Bach leadership tried to stave off what may be inevitable . . . but the rank and file doesn't trust 'em.

Over in Grand Rapids, it looks like no one even gave a rip about saving the jobs of that firm's American workers. In the final analysis, Yamaha may actually be the company that is the "morally bankrupt" one. At least Selmer/Bach tried to find a way to keep their plant open.

T.

[dbacon]

Just to be clear, do we know Yamaha will be made somewhere other than Japan? Do we know Bach will move?

[connedbyselmer]

Well Tom you are not exactly right in all respects. First we said no to the contract because managment still insisted on importing Chinese horns and eventually moving the Bach line also.You portray CONN-SELMER as giving us the opportunity to keep our jobs while we pay for the company moving our jobs out. As history has proven over and over workers that take these concesions always lose in the end. This strike always has been about union breaking and decent treatment of it's workers. This company has held a hostile , belligerent , attitude towards its senior workers and has created a hostile working environment to rid itself of old workers in the name of "COST CUTTING". This discriminatory behavior should not have to be tolerated.
This type of behavior goes for management as well as rank and file. My brother whom i got a job at Bach ,worked for that company for over 30 years and was "FIRED" along with 3 other forman with a combined 90 years of service to that company. Before their termination they were "THREATENED, HARASSED, AND INTIMADATED for well over a year in a attempet to get them to resign so no severance pay needed to be offered. When conn-selmer's tactics failed they were all" FIRED" on the same day.
When us striking workers say that this is a EVIL ,MORALLY BANKRUPT COMPANY, we are not just making up some cutsie phrase of disgruntled employees, we are seeking the same treatment of this company that they have inflicted on their workers in the name of corporate profit.That is total and complete distruction. Anyone who supports Steinway and their products, supports death and destruction of the working class in America.

[ejaime23]