Leroy N. Soetoro
2017-06-21 02:25:16 UTC
http://fox6now.com/2017/06/13/ge-closing-plant-in-waukesha-moving-300-
plus-jobs-to-canada-and-workers-arent-happy/
WAUKESHA General Electric plans to close a plant in Waukesha and move
its 300-plus jobs to Canada. Workers at the plant are angry, and theyre
accusing President Donald Trump and House Speaker Paul Ryan of failing
them, but GE officials say another factor is to blame.
I came to work on a Monday never in my wildest dreams thinking that one
of the big upper echelon people/person would come and tell us that youre
fired and were moving to Canada,' Jeff Neibauer said.
Neibauer has built Waukesha engines at the same plant for 24 years. In
2014, President Barack Obama praised the GE factory as a symbol of
American manufacturing.
What youre doing at this plant and across this region can be a model for
the country, President Obama said in 2014.
It was a model that didnt last. Nearly two years later, Neibauer and more
than 300 other workers were told their jobs were moving to Canada.
They cut one piece of your heart at a time. They move jobs out. They move
equipment out, Neibauer said.
The factory drove the communitys economy for more than 100 years. It sits
just outside Paul Ryans congressional district, but some workers say he
failed them.
Doesnt he realize that we voted for him? He should have been there and
saw my wife crying. He should have been there, Kenneth Olsen said.
GE officials blame the move to Canada on the Export-Import Bank. It is
essentially a government credit agency used to finance U.S. exports. GE
officials say they rely on that financing to help sell their products
abroad.
Speaker Ryan has slammed the Export-Import Bank as corporate welfare,
and Congress let its charter expire in June of 2015.
Canada saw an opportunity, offering GE financing if it would build a
factory there. GE took the deal, and by the time Congress reauthorized the
bank five months later, it was too late.
A spokesperson for Paul Ryan said the speaker finds GEs decision deeply
disappointing, and said the companys Export-Import Bank reasoning
doesnt match up. But GE officials said if the bank had been
reauthorized in those five months, the workers would still have their
jobs.
GEs employees arent buying it.
I dont know if you want to call it corporate greed, Joe Acker said.
A company the size of GE shouldnt need that kind of financial help,
John Kopplin said.
President Trumps promise to bring manufacturing jobs back to the U.S.
helped him win Wisconsin.
This was actually the first time I ever voted. He was saying the things
that the average person wants to see more decent paying jobs that somebody
can support a family on, Bret Mattice said.
The workers even wrote a letter to President Trump after his victory,
hoping he would save their jobs.
I dont believe theres hope for our plant. My hope is, companies like
that, that offshore all the work, I hope he follows through on his 35% tax
and punishes those businesses, Joe Barlow said.
Wisconsins unemployment rate is below the national average, and
manufacturers in Waukesha are hiring, but the workers say those jobs dont
pay nearly as much as the union jobs at GE.
To find a job with the kind of money we make now is gonna be pretty
impossible, Acker said.
You cant support a family on $17 an hour, a worker said.
Even as they search for new jobs, their anger is raw.
I dont own anything GE anymore. I dont even have a GE light bulb in my
house anymore, Barlow said.
--
Donald J. Trump, 304 electoral votes to 227, defeated compulsive liar in
denial Hillary Rodham Clinton on December 19th, 2016. The clown car
parade of the democrat party has run out of gas.
Congratulations President Trump. Thank you for ending the disaster of the
Obama presidency.
Under Barack Obama's leadership, the United States of America became the
The World According To Garp.
ObamaCare is a total 100% failure and no lie that can be put forth by its
supporters can dispute that.
Obama jobs, the result of ObamaCare. 12-15 working hours a week at minimum
wage, no benefits and the primary revenue stream for ObamaCare. It can't
be funded with money people don't have, yet liberals lie about how great
it is.
Obama increased total debt from $10 trillion to $20 trillion in the eight
years he was in office, and sold out heterosexuals for Hollywood queer
liberal democrat donors.
plus-jobs-to-canada-and-workers-arent-happy/
WAUKESHA General Electric plans to close a plant in Waukesha and move
its 300-plus jobs to Canada. Workers at the plant are angry, and theyre
accusing President Donald Trump and House Speaker Paul Ryan of failing
them, but GE officials say another factor is to blame.
I came to work on a Monday never in my wildest dreams thinking that one
of the big upper echelon people/person would come and tell us that youre
fired and were moving to Canada,' Jeff Neibauer said.
Neibauer has built Waukesha engines at the same plant for 24 years. In
2014, President Barack Obama praised the GE factory as a symbol of
American manufacturing.
What youre doing at this plant and across this region can be a model for
the country, President Obama said in 2014.
It was a model that didnt last. Nearly two years later, Neibauer and more
than 300 other workers were told their jobs were moving to Canada.
They cut one piece of your heart at a time. They move jobs out. They move
equipment out, Neibauer said.
The factory drove the communitys economy for more than 100 years. It sits
just outside Paul Ryans congressional district, but some workers say he
failed them.
Doesnt he realize that we voted for him? He should have been there and
saw my wife crying. He should have been there, Kenneth Olsen said.
GE officials blame the move to Canada on the Export-Import Bank. It is
essentially a government credit agency used to finance U.S. exports. GE
officials say they rely on that financing to help sell their products
abroad.
Speaker Ryan has slammed the Export-Import Bank as corporate welfare,
and Congress let its charter expire in June of 2015.
Canada saw an opportunity, offering GE financing if it would build a
factory there. GE took the deal, and by the time Congress reauthorized the
bank five months later, it was too late.
A spokesperson for Paul Ryan said the speaker finds GEs decision deeply
disappointing, and said the companys Export-Import Bank reasoning
doesnt match up. But GE officials said if the bank had been
reauthorized in those five months, the workers would still have their
jobs.
GEs employees arent buying it.
I dont know if you want to call it corporate greed, Joe Acker said.
A company the size of GE shouldnt need that kind of financial help,
John Kopplin said.
President Trumps promise to bring manufacturing jobs back to the U.S.
helped him win Wisconsin.
This was actually the first time I ever voted. He was saying the things
that the average person wants to see more decent paying jobs that somebody
can support a family on, Bret Mattice said.
The workers even wrote a letter to President Trump after his victory,
hoping he would save their jobs.
I dont believe theres hope for our plant. My hope is, companies like
that, that offshore all the work, I hope he follows through on his 35% tax
and punishes those businesses, Joe Barlow said.
Wisconsins unemployment rate is below the national average, and
manufacturers in Waukesha are hiring, but the workers say those jobs dont
pay nearly as much as the union jobs at GE.
To find a job with the kind of money we make now is gonna be pretty
impossible, Acker said.
You cant support a family on $17 an hour, a worker said.
Even as they search for new jobs, their anger is raw.
I dont own anything GE anymore. I dont even have a GE light bulb in my
house anymore, Barlow said.
--
Donald J. Trump, 304 electoral votes to 227, defeated compulsive liar in
denial Hillary Rodham Clinton on December 19th, 2016. The clown car
parade of the democrat party has run out of gas.
Congratulations President Trump. Thank you for ending the disaster of the
Obama presidency.
Under Barack Obama's leadership, the United States of America became the
The World According To Garp.
ObamaCare is a total 100% failure and no lie that can be put forth by its
supporters can dispute that.
Obama jobs, the result of ObamaCare. 12-15 working hours a week at minimum
wage, no benefits and the primary revenue stream for ObamaCare. It can't
be funded with money people don't have, yet liberals lie about how great
it is.
Obama increased total debt from $10 trillion to $20 trillion in the eight
years he was in office, and sold out heterosexuals for Hollywood queer
liberal democrat donors.