Family-Supporting Blue Collar Wages Are Disappearing In Wisconsin
The privately-owned Kohler Company - - with a long history of anti-union militancy - - is the latest Wisconsin business looking to cut employee pay through a two-tier, 'casual' wage structure.
This is what Ron Johnson would call "creative destruction."
The Sheboygan-area company is pleading hard times, but that hasn't stopped it from building the Whistling Straits golf course nearby.
6 comments:
Ahhhh Rowen - Whistling Straits was built over 12 years ago.
Not last week.
And what relevance does that have anyways - you have no clue as to whether or not the golf course is profitable to the Kohler Company.
It's a privately-owned company, so we'll never know. But how far into the company does the belt-tightening extend?
Like most of your comments concerning for profit business, of which you obviously have little to no understanding, your last reply made no sense.
I worked for Kohler Co. for many years; contacts within the company told me in the past year that the company's Sheboygan County golf courses never have generated a profit. Instead, the courses have been a drain on resources that could have been reinvested to strengthen the company's industrial divisions in Wisconsin.
If you want to understand the Kohler family's vision for Sheboygan County, just look at the island of Hispaniola, on which Haiti and the Dominican Republic sit. Herbert Kohler has had countless opportunities to view that geography. From the Sheboygan airport, he boards one of his company's fleet of Lear jets for a trip that takes him to Hispaniola. Just before landing there, he could look out a cabin window on his luxury jet to see the devastating poverty below. But once he lands on the island, he is whisked away to his Dominican Republic estate, tricked out with every luxury imaginable, including, according to some reports, more than a dozen (surprise!) luxury bathrooms. Not much of a middle class exists on Hispaniola; only a few who are rich and many who are poor. If the Kohlers have their way, just watch Sheboygan County's middle class evaporate, to be replaced by a few rich (bearing the last name Kohler) and many, many who are increasingly poor.
I'm reading that as "anti-union militancy" . .
BTW, Whistling Straits provoked much dismay and frustration among staff at the Wisconsin Coastal Management Program, because the project violated the core / key provisions of the 1972 Coastal Zone Management Act. And the only way that Whistling Straits & the Kohlers could evade the law on that point was with the active approval of the sitting Governor. WCMP is run out of the Office of the Governor / DOA, for obvious reasons, good and bad.
To Rich - - Yes, I meant "anti-union militancy" and edited that. Thank you.
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