STAG Arms moving

[Torian]

Of course not but I do live in reality. As others have said, at best 10-20% of the staff will make the move as most people either don't want to move cross-country or simply can't. My current company moved engineering from AL to OH and then back to AL 9 years later. Less than 10% of the employees moved each time. Likewise my wife's company purchased a company in FL 3 years ago and shut down the FL facility on consolidated production to AL. All employees were offered the opportunity to move but less than 5% did.

Entirely conjecture.

Let's stick with what we know:

We are talking about highly specialized / trained machinists and other hands-on employees with experience on the line that are not easily replaced. Just moving one of their machines alone costs them big bucks according to the CEO.

Stag arms hasn't decided anything yet, and when they do, I'm sure they will have a plan to make sure they don't have to start from scratch in another state. Unless your experience that you cited describes a similar scenario within the same industry, it isn't relevant.

 

[Huskerguy]

I feel sorry for the workers at these companies. With the company moving they have the hard choice to either uproot their families and move to keep their job or start looking for a new job. All because their boss wants to make a political point.

Last I looked we still live in a free country where businesses and employees have some freedoms to make these decisions. Would it be worse to just sit there and let regulations and over taxation slowly but certainly run them out of business because that is what some want to happen. Does anyone get it that these "anti" people just do not like anything to do with this industry? Yes, some families may have to move, but in the end it will be better for them to be in a state what actually wants them and embraces what they do.

 

[SSN Vet]

Colt needs to do the same....

CT needs to feel serious pain and suck up a few thousand more on their unemployment, welfare and medicare roles.... on top of taking a hit in their state income tax.

Libs won't be so crazy about their utopian pie in the sky society when they have to pay for it out of their own pocket.

 

[kwguy]

All because their boss wants to make a political point.

Maybe we should pass a law that makes it illegal for a company to do anything that creates an inconvenience for it's employees, and another law that says once a company is formed, and profitable, it no longer belongs to those that started it, but instead it is now automatically run by the employees and that they are now in charge...

 

[JSH1]

Unless your experience that you cited describes a similar scenario within the same industry, it isn't relevant.

My wife works for a company that manufactures medical implants, a very specialized industry with highly skilled engineers and machinists. Not the same industry but still relevant.

 

[HOOfan_1]

Maybe we should pass a law that makes it illegal for a company to do anything that creates an inconvenience for it's employees, and another law that says once a company is formed, and profitable, it no longer belongs to those that started it, but instead it is now automatically run by the employees and that they are now in charge...

Someone already mentioned unions in this thread

 

[JSH1]

Maybe we should pass a law that makes it illegal for a company to do anything that creates an inconvenience......

Excellent use of hyperbole. I don't recall proposing any new laws. I simply said I feel sorry for the workers effected as the decision to move out of state will cause them hardship. I never said it wasn't legal.

It is really easy to congratulate a company for standing on principle when one isn't effected by that stand in any way.

 

[rdhood]

For example, Connecticut received $0.69 in federal spending for every dollar paid in federal taxes while North Carolina received $1.35 for every dollar paid.

I hear this all the time from blue states claiming that red states are "takers". Well guess what? When blue states pass stuff like Obamacare/SNAP/Medicaid/etc on red states with a much higher proportion of poor, those states with a much higher proportion of poor are going to become "takers". Every feel good program that blue states pass cause red states' poor to receive more, and to become even further entrenched in their poverty. And then (LOL) blue states (after giving away the farm to the poor in red states) have the brain dead gumption to complain.

 

[Walkalong]

Getting a little bit too much like politics.