The upside is that 'Milwaukee Iron' will continue to be made right here in Milwaukee where it belongs. The new agreement specifies that the company will remain in Milwaukee. If workers had rejected the deal, the company had said it would expand production outside of Wisconsin. Local 2-209 President Jim Wheiland says the union is looking forward toĮxpanding here, rather than worry about a rival plant that would produce the same product with newer, state of the art equipment.Īll Harley-Davidson Big Twin and XL power trains are now produced in Milwaukee. As part of the partnership, employees and management make consensus decisions that keep the company competitive and find efficient methods to produce high-quality products without compromising production levels, job security or working conditions. That's when the company and its unions agreed to collaborate and establish a High Performance Work Organization partnership. This unique approach helped propel the company back to success after being on the brink of bankruptcy in 1994. Committees composed of managers and union representatives team up to make many of the company's important decisions. Harley-Davidson's commitment to keeping jobs in America is linked to its partnership with its workers' unions. The deal also means the 1,600 union members will keep their jobs and it requires the company to invest more than $120 million to expand production of the power train capacity in Milwaukee, creating more than 100 new jobs. 14, includes a two-tier wage system for newly hired employees, but with much smaller gaps than in the earlier agreement. The company was looking for a way to cut costs and wanted to cut by as much as one-third wages of workers hired after the first of the year. MILWAUKEE IRON STAYS IN MILWAUKEE- Long-time Harley-Davidson motorcycle riders call their machines 'Milwaukee Iron.' At a time when manufacturing workers are losing their jobs to offshore factories or nonunion shops, members of United Steelworkers (USW) Local 2-209 know that Milwaukee Iron is going to stay in Milwaukee after they approved a memorandum of agreement to their contract with Harley-Davidson.īoth sides went back to the drawing board last month after the workers rejected an earlier tentative agreement. Red Barron organized the July 4th helmet protest rally in San Diego, which resulted in a number of helmet citations that are being contested. This is the most recent evidence, a letter from the city of San Diego dismissing helmet citations. Some departments are honoring the injunction issued in the Easyriders case, and some are honoring the enforcement bulletin advising of the injunction.

While I was at the MRF Meeting of the Minds, a comment was made that there was still a helmet law in California.

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