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Zoonart

(11,869 posts)
2. Can't understand why...
Mon Aug 14, 2017, 11:44 PM
Aug 2017

The unions are hanging in here. Time was, the unions would have led the way out the door from such a morally compromised dog and pony show.

Fresh_Start

(11,330 posts)
3. because as Trump gets pissed at the corporate heads...he will probably
Mon Aug 14, 2017, 11:46 PM
Aug 2017

see the unions as friendlies...which might mean they get concessions from him

Xolodno

(6,395 posts)
6. Keep your friends close....
Mon Aug 14, 2017, 11:51 PM
Aug 2017

...and your enemies closer.

If those companies advocate that manufacturing would grow if they could just lower workers wages, the unions need to be there to fight it. Having no chair at the table is probably even worse. They probably hate it, but, hold their nose and deal with it.

rainbow4321

(9,974 posts)
8. Probably the last to leave will be one w/ gov contracts
Mon Aug 14, 2017, 11:59 PM
Aug 2017

Lockheed, Boeing, etc... out of fear of drumf dumping them. Wouldn't be surprised if GE has one, too.

Dow won't leave because didn't drumf make it easier for poisonous chemicals to be used?

J&J and Campbell Soup...those can be pressured by consumer boycotts, etc..

Response to msongs (Reply #9)

procon

(15,805 posts)
11. There will soon be an exodus as the CEOs of these national brands realize
Tue Aug 15, 2017, 12:12 AM
Aug 2017

that they cannot let their brand image be linked to the Nazi loving president or his murdering white supremacist supporters.

mia

(8,361 posts)
15. Here are the companies whose CEOs are still kissing up to Trump
Tue Aug 15, 2017, 01:27 PM
Aug 2017
http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-trump-ceos-20170815-story.html

Affirmatively staying on:

--General Motors, CEO Mary Barra (SP)

--Cleveland Clinic, CEO Toby Cosgrove (SP)

--JP Morgan Chase, CEO Jamie Dimon (SP)

--Wal-Mart, CEO Doug McMillon (SP)

--Boeing, CEO Dennis Muilenberg (MJ)

--Blackstone Group, CEO Stephen Schwarzman (SP)

--General Electric, former CEO Jack Welch (SP)

--Dell, CEO Michael Dell (MJ)

--Whirlpool, CEO Jeff Fettig (MJ)

--Johnson & Johnson, CEO Alex Gorsky (MJ)

--General Electric, CEO Jeff Immelt (MJ)

--Timken, CEO Rich Kyle

--Campbell Soup, CEO Denise Morrison (MJ)

--Newell Brands, CEO Michael Polk (MJ)

--International Paper, CEO Mark Sutton (MJ)

--Corning, CEO Wendell Weeks (MJ)



No specific comment on plans:

--BlackRock, CEO Larry Fink (SP)

--BCG (Boston Consulting Group), CEO Rich Lesser (SP)

--Boeing, former CEO Jim McNerney (SP)

--Pepsico, CEO Indra Nooyi (SP)

--Global Infrastructure Partners, Chairman Adebayo Ogunlesi (SP)

--IBM, CEO Virginia Rometty (SP)

--Stanford University/Hoover Institution, Kevin Warsh, visiting fellow (SP)

--EY (Ernst & Young), CEO Mark Weinberger (SP)

--IHS Markit, Vice Chairman Daniel Yergin (SP)

--Dow Chemical, CEO Andrew Liveris (MJ)

--Nucor Corp., CEO John Ferriola (MJ)

--United Technologies, CEO Greg Hayes (MJ)

--Lockheed Martin, CEO Marillyn Hewson (MJ)

--Dana Inc., CEO Jim Kamsickas (MJ)

--3M, CEO Inge Thulin (MJ)



Retired from company and council:

--Ford Motor, former CEO Mark Fields (MJ)

--Arconic, former CEO Klaus Kleinfeld (MJ)

--U.S. Steel, former CEO Mario Longhi (MJ)

--Caterpillar, former CEO Doug Oberhelman (MJ)


Assessing decision:

AFL-CIO, President Richard Trumka and Deputy Chief of Staff Thea Lee (MJ)

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
16. We should politely inform those still on the list that we're aware of them
Tue Aug 15, 2017, 01:29 PM
Aug 2017

And we're currently weighing their participation in the balance, making a determination of which side they're on in the renewed struggle against the Nazis.

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