So said the Chamber of Commerce at the conclusion of on of their meetings. They were talking about the ongoing labor unrest at GE, and how if the company began down sizing it would effect everyone. Hmmmm.
"I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix,"
Interesting article. The front page story for that day, August 27, 1964, was the nomination of President Lyndon Baines Johnson and Senator Hubert Horatio Humphrey to head the Democratic ticket that year.
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"For this is what America is all about. It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed ridge. It is the star that is not reached and the harvest that is sleeping in the unplowed ground." Lyndon Baines Johnson
I don't know how to post an image here, and for some reason I can't link to another ad in the same day's paper.
It was taken out by The Schenectady Realty Board Inc. , and it's title is 4 Ways To Ruin A City. Prophetic to say the least. But what's really disturbing, is the 4 reasons are still at work today. Gotta love it. History.
Everybody understood except the Union, what was going to happen. The Union was blind, and just as culpable as GE and all of us in the decline of Schenectady.
We all had a hand in the mess folks. We've all got blood on our hands.
"I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix,"
Guess neither does someone says things like there are lots of people downtown but won't post photos. Maybe doesn't know how to take a picture. LOL
You can post a photo by uploading to a photo site and then wherever you see reference to copying it, you do so, then come back in here and in the window you are using, just click CTRL-V
See, extremely simple.
Optimists close their eyes and pretend problems are non existent. Better to have open eyes, see the truths, acknowledge the negatives, and speak up for the people rather than the politicos and their rich cronies.
Guess neither does someone says things like there are lots of people downtown but won't post photos. Maybe doesn't know how to take a picture. LOL
You can post a photo by uploading to a photo site and then wherever you see reference to copying it, you do so, then come back in here and in the window you are using, just click CTRL-V
Ah thanks. I did figure it out. Had to create an account on photobucket. Here's the ad.
"I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix,"
Less than 4,000 jobs to go...... this has alot more to do with the crappy environment in NY State than it does with just Schenectady especially now that the Schenectady City property is 100% tax exempt....
Oct 2, 2013, 6:54am EDT
GE erasing jobs at Schenectady campus
Adam SichkoReporter- Albany Business ReviewEmail | LinkedIn | Twitter | Google+ General Electric is cutting jobs at its historic Schenectady, NY, campus.
A company spokeswoman tells me no more than 200 jobs will be eliminated by year’s end. That would mean no more than 5 percent of the 4,000 employees in Schenectady are in jeopardy of being cut.
GE (NYSE: GE) is saying little about the specific reasons for the downsizing.
Just last week, GE trumpeted a $2.7 billion contract that the company billed as one of the single largest orders the Schenectady campus has ever had, dating to its creation in the very late 1800s, when Thomas Edison rooted the company in the city.
The looming cuts continue a see-saw narrative for GE in the Capital Region.
GE has created 450 new jobs in Schenectady just at a $170 million battery factory that opened two years ago. The company also hired production workers in preparation for winning that huge order, for turbine and generator parts headed for the African nation of Algeria.
This latest news of cutbacks, though, comes as GE is also looking to close a capacitor factory in Fort Edward, eliminating 198 jobs there. A final decision on that is expected next month.
GE says hourly production workers in Schenectady, who are represented by unions, will not be impacted by the job cuts announced Oct. 1.
Asked if that means salaried jobs are being cut, GE spokeswoman Christine Horne replied: “I can only confirm hourly production employees are not impacted by this action.”
Horne says the local cuts are part of “ways to reduce cost across the global Power & Water business,” which is headquartered in Schenectady.
Horne says overall, GE is cutting less than 2 percent of its global work force in that division.
Adam reports breaking news and covers health care, manufacturing, government and sports business.
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