TWU's Silence is deafening!

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A number of other major corporations also left NYC during the same timeframe at AA -- Eastern (for MIA), GM (for DTW), Shell (for MSY), GE, ARCO, US Steel (PIT?), Coke (ATL), Pepsi (HPN), Kraft Foods, Nabisco, K-Mart (also for DTW), and Greyhound.

You are mistaken on at least three of these companies. Yes, there was a GM Building on Broadway before the new one on Fifth, but the HQ was always in the GM Building on Grand Blvd in Detroit. K-Mart grew out of the S.S. Kresge company which was founded on Woodward Avenue in Detroit and always headquartered in the area, most recently at Troy. Coca-Cola has always been Atlanta based.

 

[Bob Owens]

They moved HDQ for the tax breaks, along with a hundred or so other corporations who were ultimately chased out of Manhattan due to Ed Koch's mismanagement of NYC in the late 70's.

I think you are confusing Abe Beame(SIC?) with Ed Koch.

During the 70s there was a lot of talk of NYCs coming demise, but under Koch the city rebounded, that talk started again after 9-11 but today its more robust than ever.

I remember Union Carbide had a building on Park Avenue, most of their top execs lived in Connecticut and they lobbied to move corporate Hdq out there. They pretty much gave the building away.

The move was a disaster for the company. Most of the workers at Park Avenue were city dwellers, no car, no liscence, they walked or took Mass Transit, they were healthier and had lower overhead despite high rents because they didnt own cars, moving to Connecticut was too much of a change for them. The company had a huge turnover problem with the move as well as an unepected and unwelcome cultural change in its workforce.They lost most of their long time workers and the company went down the toilet, eventually it was bought out by DOW.


As for the fact that the T-W-WHO? is remaining silent while the other unions are out there making noise, well, what can they afford to say when they are still being paid off by the company?

 

[local 12 proud]

As for the fact that the T-W-WHO? is remaining silent while the other unions are out there making noise, well, what can they afford to say when they are still being paid off by the company?

They're in wub.. :wub: