conn-selmer closes another one

connedbyselmer · Posted: Fri Dec 07, 2007 4:30 pm Post subject: conn-selmer closes another one

• Steinway Musical says unit to close facility, cut jobs
at Reuters (Tue, Dec 4)
Steinway CEO Dana Messina corporate strategy is right on schedule, buy up all the competition, then cry over capacity, and cheat lifelong workers out of there jobs by closing their factorys.
CEO Messina, his partner ,President Kyle Kirkland who both worked with the convicted corporate criminal Michael Milken at Drexal Burnham after they ruined that company and the books DEN OF THIEVES & THE PREDATORS BALL came out ,then went their seperate ways. Milken went to jail, Messina and kirkland went to work in the music business figuring out how to take profitable companys like The SELMER CO and turn them around by buying them out in leveraged buy outs with junk bonds then slowly destroying them with greed based corporate decisions.
My advice to Dana Messina would be get back with Milken again and seek some good moral advice, because I understand since Milken got out of prison,had a brush with death he has turned his life and morals around, and has become ,according to FORBS MAGAZINE in the top 300 of the richest people in the world.
Listen to Steinways archived 3rd quarter onference call and hear how one investor questioned messina about his managment short comings before he got cut off from asking any futher questions.• Steinway Musical says unit to close facility, cut jobs
at Reuters (Tue, Dec 4)
• Conn-Selmer to Close Kenosha Facility
PR Newswire (Tue, Dec 4)

Tyler Williams · Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 11:41 am Post subject:

Would it be possible to write a petition against Messina and Kirkland? I'm thinking there's got to be some action that we can take. My heart goes out for the people that have been screwed by Conn-Selmer. It's not right. I wonder if Messina has any conscience.
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brem · Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 12:47 pm Post subject:

Any updates on how the votes for deunionization turned out?
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connedbyselmer · Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 2:38 pm Post subject:

connedbyselmer · Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 2:52 pm Post subject:

Tyler Williams · Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 3:59 pm Post subject:

I will pray that he sees the error of his ways (or maybe he has but he has no conscience) and that he will right his wrongs. Meanwhile, I will not support Conn-Selmer by buying their horns, nor will I endorse the company. Somebody asks me about their horns, I will advise against their horns. If only a boycott could be organized. But that would lead to more cut jobs and factory closures most likely.
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Nickyboy2 · Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 6:27 pm Post subject:

Personally, I don't really care for their horns anyway. Maybe it is the fact that I was one of 2 at my middle school with a Getzen, not a Bach. Or that even in highschool when they let us test them at school I didn't like how they played. Needless to say, I am not an advocate of Bach

Edit: That is not to say that it is a sad thing that one of the biggest instrument companies is getting run into the ground by a mone grubbing crook
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demeterK · Posted: Mon Dec 17, 2007 10:15 am Post subject:

I will pray that he sees the error of his ways (or maybe he has but he has no conscience) and that he will right his wrongs. Meanwhile, I will not support Conn-Selmer by buying their horns, nor will I endorse the company. Somebody asks me about their horns, I will advise against their horns. If only a boycott could be organized. But that would lead to more cut jobs and factory closures most likely.
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connedbyselmer · Posted: Mon Dec 17, 2007 2:24 pm Post subject:

[quote="demeterK"]I will pray that he sees the error of his ways (or maybe he has but he has no conscience) and that he will right his wrongs. Meanwhile, I will not support Conn-Selmer by buying their horns, nor will I endorse the company. Somebody asks me about their horns, I will advise against their horns. If only a boycott could be organized. But that would lead to more cut jobs and factory closures most likely.
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A boycott was started sometime ago with moderate success. Professional musicians and their union leadership in LA, San Francisco ,Las Vegas, Chicago, NewYork, and our best support of all from our good union brothers and sisters in Japan who demonstrated on our behalf against Nonaka, Conn- Selmer # 1 dealer . Also some moral, ethical American dealers have stopped doing business with Steinway- Conn- Selmer, and to them the former union workers at Vincent Bach corporation wish to extend to them a heartfelt thank you. This strike has cost CEO Dana Messina well over 21 million dollars and rising to date. That may be a small amount to a little man ,with a big ego, but it has exposed his unethica leadership and his bad managment to the industry and the world.
While it may be true, like Messina claims , that this may be costly in the short term, but in the long run after the union is destroyed, wages and benefits are cut futher, the strike related cost will be recouped, and profits will be increased futher.
As us workers have stated before, We have fought the good fight against evil and we will sit back and watch if a unethical, morallybankrupt company will prosper or go the way of all flesh.
PRAY FOR YOUR ENEMIES PRAY FOR MESSINA

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connedbyselmer · Posted: Fri Dec 21, 2007 6:27 am Post subject:

Jude · Posted: Fri Dec 21, 2007 11:01 am Post subject:

Rats! I suppose the boycott includes the Vintage One? I don't need a new horn, not until I can play a lot better than I do now, but the V1 is what I intended to look at first.
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