It is time to fight back. How do we unionize. We need site representatives and start coordinating our efforts across the US. If we can send a space craft to the outer edge of our solar system, then we can unite and fight back. Enough is enough.
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While I have never supported Unions it does make sense that they can at least make the transition better for employees that will be laid off due to Globalization. I have heard that the severance package for all employees will be drastically reduced starting in 2017.
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waste of time. Honeywell is pulling out of the US. the sooner everyone realizes this and bails, the better off they will all be. you have been warned.
Unions? No thanks. Been through all that and it will make things much worse. I suppose 100 yrs ago if I were a 12 year old in a coal mine a union would make sense.
Unions WERE out of date. Unfortunately due to the current environment we work in, union representation makes more sense than it use too.
I've had it with this crapp. Furlough, layoff and the like.
I just overheard HR discussing this conversation in a meeting. The anti-union push is about to start.
Oh god I was waiting for the union cries to start. Unions are as corrupt and greedy as the corporations are. I for one am tired of the unions already at Honeywell. You talk about a company that sends things to space? You're also talking about a company that takes 10 days to have the union move a table in a conference room because regular employees get grievances if they do it. I got written up when I moved a few boxes during an office move because that was "union" work. Unions served their purpose in the past, now they're out dated, political havens for lazy workers seeking artificial job security. Adding more unions to Honeywell would not only incentivize further offshoring of jobs, it will expedite it.
To Unionize at this late stage of Global capitalism would just accelerate the plant closings and offshoring. Hate to say but H Ross Perot was correct. Just look for a new job or ride this one into the ground!
A year is too long. Trust me they are making sure there isn't time for collective bargaining.
Would never happen in Greer, SC. Southerners have been bred to be skeered and "thankful" for their jobs, plus it's a very anti-union RTW state.
The first thing we need to do is decide how to communicate. Each Honeywell site needs to start local. Talk to you coworker and start an independent cell. Keep it secret and outside the Honeywell grounds. Have a big group lunch. Pass it by word of mouth. We need to understand the support at each site. The biggest issues right now is fear. We are scare of retaliation - we all know how Honeywell operates and the tools it applies. We are starting the conversation in Clearwater as a very small group. Once we have groups of people that trust each other, then we will network the groups within the site to form a larger united group. Support will grow once scare employees start seeing everyone comming out and power by numbers. Each site needs to start independent of each other. Once we have large local site support, then we can start networking from site to site. The whole process with take a year. This needs to be an organic efforts. We are smart enough to start our own Union exclusive to our needs. This will ensure we don't fall in the same holes as other unions. We needs to uberize this process. We need a union app. We need to evolve and ensure we are not just a cost measure. We are the most important asset in Honeywell. Without us, there is no Honeywell.
Never happen in AZ. Employees would never stick together long enough
How about, for beginners, we bring more people to this forum. Ask your circle to read, comment. Just leave a sticker with site URL on someone's desk...
GOOD LUCK. Hon has millions ways and reasons to block it and to fire you.
HW train already left for India and China. Option for US workers either Mc Donald or must accept salary in Rupee or Yuan.
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Section 1: The policy of the United States is to be carried out "by encouraging the practice and procedure of collective bargaining and by protecting the exercise by workers of full freedom of association, self-organization, and designation of representatives of their own choosing, for the purpose of negotiating the terms and conditions of their employment..."
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Just accept the fact that honeywell's goal is to get rid of all the US worker bees including Engineering .
Each individual site should unionize if they are in a state where you can still form a union. I'd like to see this happen.
Agree but I'm in a "right-to-fire state" Az . How can we Unionize ?