How come fast Eddie didn't save them

[ALS]

I just read that Mack Trucks is moving it's head quarters to North Carolina.
So 500 high paying jobs just vanished to NC and not a word from our
fearless speeding Govenor.
He had no problem doing everything he could do to save Pittsburgh from losing the Penguin's to another city. But here is Allentown who's pretty much in the crapper and one of their biggest employers just said Hasta la Vista losers.

[RocketFoot]

Yeah, this is a real bad blow to Mack Truck Employees and Fans everywhere! Looks like the NC Gov out bid fast Eddie!

http://www.mcall.com/news/local/all-...n,0,5675.story

I talked to some Allentown employees today that are PISSED!! They found out about this from the same article I just posted in the local paper yesterday morning!

Don't blame Mack...blame Volvo Truck!!

[625]

Don't blame Mack...blame Volvo Truck!!

Ford owns Volvo. So who owns Ford?

[RocketFoot]

Ford owns Volvo. So who owns Ford?

Volvo AB (Truck) is different than Volvo Cars. Volvo AB sold the car division off to Ford several years ago.

[625]

Volvo Group did sell off the car division. You are correct. I went and looked to see who owns who and it gets confusing quick. Renault, Volvo, Mack, Nissan, Prevost, and Nova are all tied together in some way.

Sorry for the hijack.

Fat Eddie is a turd. At least this is a constant.

[billamj]

Fat Eddie didn't save the jobs because he isn't eligible for reelection. He doesn't want to be a Senator and should he decide to run for the house he would be in a safe district in Philly. The people of Pa. were stupid to elect him the first time, idiotic to elect him the second time and now, starting with these jobs, is the time that we get to pay the piper for his having been elected in the first place.

[RocketFoot]

Here's the official word on Rendell...

http://www.mcall.com/news/local/all-...,5123317.story

Officials wanted shot to keep icon

They would have liked chance to persuade Mack to stay.

By Darryl R. Isherwood and John L. Micek |Of The Morning Call August 15, 2008 Gov. Ed Rendell prides himself on attracting businesses to the state and making sure they stay. So how did Mack Trucks, a worldwide icon, get away? Simple. He didn't know, and it wouldn't have mattered.

From the governor's mansion to the statehouse to Allentown's City Hall, elected officials were as surprised as everyone else by Mack's announcement Thursday that it will move its headquarters to Greensboro, N.C., next year, leaving the Lehigh Valley and more than 100 years of history behind.

After deciding in private to leave, Mack gave Pennsylvania no opportunity to persuade it to stay.

''They probably should have given us the courtesy of advance notification,'' Rendell said in an interview. ''I'm disappointed because there was a lack of consideration to some degree, but not outraged because they are shipping us 200 good manufacturing jobs [to Mack's Macungie plant], which are harder to find and replace in some ways than good front-office jobs are.''



Rendell's pique at being left in the dark was echoed by elected officials across the political landscape.

Allentown Mayor Ed Pawlowski, whose tax rolls might be the hardest hit by Mack's move, was given no warning despite making repeated efforts.

''I reached out on a number of occasions to the company leadership, asking them to keep me informed of potential plans,'' Pawlowski said. ''At no time did [they] inform me that a move of the administrative headquarters or other functions was being contemplated for sometime in 2009.''

State Rep. Karen Beyer,

R-Lehigh, was clearly upset at the lack of warning and said she and the region's other representatives ''would have moved mountains'' to keep the company in Allentown.

''If we had known prior to the general announcement, maybe we could have made some kind of offer,'' Beyer said. ''I think it was incumbent on Mack to inform the area legislators of their intentions.''

State Rep. Jennifer Mann, D-Lehigh, and state Sen. Pat Browne, R-Lehigh, also were unaware. For Mann, whose mother and father both worked at Mack, the news was particularly hard to stomach.

''But certainly my disappointment doesn't compare to what 680 families are dealing with -- having the rug pulled from right beneath their feet,'' Mann said. ''And that's where our focus needs to be -- on assisting those families and the long-term concern for the redevelopment of that site.''

Though he did not understate the local economic impact, Browne predicted that the Valley will bounce back.

''There has been no region that has been more successful in adjusting to industrial change than the Lehigh Valley,'' he said. ''So, in the long term, we will effectively recover from this.''

Lehigh County Executive Don Cunningham, who as Bethlehem mayor experienced firsthand the sting of Bethlehem Steel's downfall, also looked forward.

''What we chose to do in Bethlehem was to move on,'' he said. ''You can't bring back the past, so you have to move on and focus your energy in other areas. I don't believe this is as bad as Bethlehem Steel, because manufacturing is staying and even expanding.''

Though angry over the move, Pawlowski said the city has rebounded before from economic loss.

''When the General Mills plant just a short distance away from the Mack headquarters site closed, we went to work and found a buyer who is expanding the plant and bringing even more jobs to that facility,'' the mayor said.

''We will tackle the job of replacing the Mack Trucks bulldog with the same tenacity.''

More Links:

http://www.mcall.com/news/local/all-...,4808218.story

http://www.mcall.com/news/local/all-...,7323982.story

http://wfmz.com/view/?id=314325

[Lougotzz]

I have posted this many times over. PA is a mild form of NY. If the liberals do to PA what they did to NY this state will follow NY. By the way NY is broke now big time.

All the jobs left NY. Very little left. I love PA but when I see this it brings back bad memories.


it all starts with philly just like it did with NYC.

NYC destroyed NY State sound familiar. We want to make out own guns laws... IE NYC we want to dictate to the state on how we spend money and how much welfare we give out. IE NYC. to much like looking into a mirror.

NY Sucks dont let it happen here.

[tes151]

I assume the Mack employees are union. Don't they have a right to " follow " the work, or does their union suck? I used to be a Teamster, and we could transfer to follow the work if it was moved to another location. Just wondering.

[RocketFoot]

Well, I just heard that Mack will offer jobs to MOST of it's affected workers that will require transfer, but estimates are that only 10-15% may be wiling to relocate. They may also transfer some workers to other positions at the factory or test track in Macungie. None the less, a lot of Mack workers are unhappy...