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OPINION * USA - Paccar Closing Strike-Hobbled Peterbilt Plant
Management 1, Organized Labor 0 ...
(B) Aerial view Peterbilt Motors' Denton, TX, plant
New York,NY,USA -GLG Group, by John Schulz -October 2, 2009: ... That's the final linescore from the hardball labor negotiations between the United Auto Workers Local 1832 in Madison, Tenn., and Paccar's Peterbilt Motor Co... For the record, the company says it is closing the Class 8 manufacturing plant because of the precipitous decline in demand for heavy trucks... Given trucking's notoriously cyclical demand cycles, these boom and bust periods are not unusual. Any company that doesn't see the waves can't last very long in trucking... But that's not what's driving this decision. This move is about hardball labor negotiating tactics, and nothing else... One can see how Peterbilt is telegraphing its labor strategy through this move. It is moving all its truck manufacturing to a state-of-the-art plant in Denton, Texas, outside Dallas. Oh, did I mention the Denton plant is union-free? Yes, it is... The Peterbilt plant manager in Nashville, Larry Vessels, is quoted in this Nashville Business Journal story as saying the impasse with the UAW had nothing to do with the decision to shutter the plant... If you believe that, I've got a bridge in Brooklyn I'd like you to look at it...
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