Is Mars having production issues?
I work for Staff Management at the Mars plant here in Hackettstown and have not been scheduled for work the past few weeks. The only cause given was some vague remark about chocolate production problems. Does anybody know what is actually happening there?
CodyRan into a friend who works there last week. He told me there was a issue with the chocolate. Said about 2 weeks they will be shut down. And you need to use your personal time to get paid. If that's true that's wrong. Not the employees fault a problem caused the production shut down. Pay them.
OnTheEdge "Not the employees fault a problem caused the production shut down. Pay them."
What?
Pay is for work. An employee is not a child, not a family member. It is pay in return to perform a task.
You expect to be paid for nothing? How old are you?
Any business can fail... or shut down, downsize cut hours. Does it suck? Yea.. but to expect pay for nothing is absurd.
As for Mars- I'm shedding no tears as they are complicit for child / slave labor. Literal blood on their hands.
Nobody should support bad behavior from ANY company- walk away and buy / work elsewhere.
Josh Josh, it’s a two way moral obligation but a one way legal obligation structured in the company’s favor. Unions boys, gotta have the Union.
Wanna bet management is covered.
Babbit Unions ruined the manufacturing base in this country. It’s no wonder jobs were exported to countries with cheaper labor. Why would GM pay a high school drop out $120/hr to bolt on water pumps when someone in Mexico will do it for $20/hr?
Sure, 100 years ago when companies made employees work 80 hours per week in awful conditions, unions were a necessity. Today? Not even a little bit.
If management is paid, good for them. Those are higher tier jobs which come with higher pay and benefits. Typically, management either has more experience and/or higher levels of education. Both of which were earned through hard work. Yes, you can point out the 1% of employees that can credit nepotism with their position but, generally speaking, hard work and dedication are rewarded in this country.
TJS IMO, it seems America is still too expensive even without Unions which your thinking has demolished over the years, like over 50% with most remaining in public sector.
Yet non-Union wages held higher because of Unions still, you’re welcome.
Today’s factory jobs require similar and different skill sets yet are comparable in a number of aspects. There’s not a lot of mindless line jobs in the modern factory.
Middle managers sure could have used a union to stop the benefits erosion starting in the 80’s when people were talked into hating the Union.
Same kind of talk got you to go 401K over a pension. How did that work out? On average, not as good as
Yup. Laugh to see folks hating Unions, feeling they can prosper more on a 402 w/o a pension. When the last auto settlement was made, non union wages in auto factories in the south went up. Go figure.
Fact is. cost wise, the US cannot support any factory unless specialized or highly automated in which case gonna be some well educated workers. But competition with Mexico, Vietnam, etc. Nope.
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