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Harley Davidson stays put in Wisconsin
We don’t think it’s far fetched to describe Harley-Davidson as a beleaguered company right now but it seems like it just got through a round of tough union negotiations which should see it make some savings. The company has been making some big losses recently and had gone shopping for new production facilities to cut costs, with a possible result being all 1,350 employees in the Wisconsin area losing their jobs.
Faced with an entire production shut-down and factory move out of Milwaukee, union workers have agreed to new contracts over a seven year period that cut worker numbers by 250 and offer casual work contracts in the place of full-time contracts with benefits. Given these changes it was more attractive for Harley-Davidson, cost-wise, to stay put than to move to other facilities and incur the costs of establishing new premises. In fact, initial savings to the end of 2013 are said to be to the tune of $50 million.
The union has gone so far as to say it’s happy to have kept jobs in Wisconsin but you could hardly call it a victory. Whether another example of just how good we’d all got it before the crisis hit, it’s a tough pill to swallow when you’re a worker. A Harley-Davidson failure would be nothing on the national scale of General Motors, but it would still put some local towns in hard times. Here’s hoping the new agreement keeps things rolling along heathily.
Source | A&R and Autoblog.com
Harley Davidson XR1200 Snow Sculpture
A team of snow sculptors created a giant ice-and-snow version of the Harley Davidson XR1200 outside the new Harley-Davidson Museum in Milwaukee, USA . Tom Queoff captaining the USA Snow Sculpting Team lended his talents and worked only with hand tools over three days in freezing temperatures to carve the giant XR 1200 sculpture.
The sculpture will probablybe up until spring thaw.
Source | hellforleathermagazine
Youtube and Harley Davidson, celebrates 105 years in Milwaukee
The guys from Bike in the Fast Lane have discovered that Harley Davidson has its own official channel on Youtube.
You can find the channel here: www.youtube.com/harleydavidson, and we show this video of the 105th anniversary in Milwaukee.
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