Union workers learned the details yesterday, a day after Harley employees in the Milwaukee area were told that at least 200 jobs would be lost there under the new deal. The Tomahawk plant makes windshields, side-cars, and other accessories for Harley bikes. The plant now has about 275 full-time employees, and about 75 of them would be replaced by seasonal workers aimed at making Harley’s production more flexible to market conditions. Harley says it needs to cut millions in labor costs in order to keep making motorcycles in Wisconsin.
Workers at both the Tomahawk and Menomonee Falls plants will vote Monday on a new seven-year deal that takes effect after 2012. If they reject it, Harley says it will consider moving the work out-of-state, and a total of 17-hundred jobs could be lost.
Source: Wisconsin News
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