At a Steel Plant, Layoffs and a Request: Train Your Replacement | Times Documentary
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- Mark Elliott and John Leonard spent decades working at an Indianapolis factory. When the plant announced it was moving operations to Mexico, Mark decided to train his replacement. John refused.
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This was tough to watch. I’ve seen my father live through layoffs and a buyout. I get both sides, but I was shaking my head at John for holding it against Mark for making the best of a bad situation. If he wants to be angry about something be mad at the CEO. Both of these guys have lost their jobs regardless.
That's an amazing mini-docu. I must admit I can see both sides here. Mark chose to keep positive and I can respect that. John stood on his principles and I can respect that.
The sad thing is that their friendship suffered and ended. And that company was definitely not worth that. I hope they find each other again..
The deep irony of the situation is that companies that pay their workers well have incentive to move jobs out of the country and companies that that can underpay their employers have reason to stay.
Capitalism is deeply flawed.
Optimist Vs Pessimist. Both sad, disappointed, scared, just dealt with it differently. A good lesson in outlook.
Workers better wake up and fast.
Essence of the article, the love of money is the root of all evil, and destroys lives.
This isn't a personal thing: it's how the system was designed. The wealthy built it to their benefit, and they're consolidating as much power as they can before it all comes to toppling down from underneath them. We live in a kleptocracy, and when American workers finally catch on, there will be blood.
Then why are you using a device that has access to the internet?
Put your money where your mouth is, and live by what you say. Rather than demand the government force everyone else to, at gunpoint.
This was really incredibly well done.
I never knew what good American made bearings were like until i needed to install new ones on my boat's trailer! OMG! Piece of garbage Chinese made bearings is all that were available so I bought them and kept them properly lubed and one of the wheels fell off! Lucky for me my trailer was a tandem axle or I would have lost my boat!
Been waiting for the video ever since I heard about it on The Daily.
He is not a bad guy... he is a good guy with a bad attitude. Like Tai Lopez said... it is not the strongest or the smartest people who survives... it is the people who is willing to change and prepare for that.
These guys focused on each other when they should have been, focusing as a team, on the competition.
Now days the machines does most of the work. A human is only needed to put raw materials into the machine and take out the completed part. You can teach anyone in few days to do these kind of work.
How can you live with your self
alot of them are coming to the south because of their anti-union views, going through temp companies and paying people a little more than mexico and working us 6 or 7 days, 12 hr shifts sometimes for months straight without a day off, if people fought for workers rights and got unions back we would have good paying jobs again with days off and if corporations dont like that then let them go to other countries and produce horrible products that will result in a decline of their business and they'll come crawling back
I live in Australia 23 years old. But, if i was at their shoes i do the same as Mark did.
Its sad them guys let corporate greed drive a wedge between their brotherhood. Thats why its important to learn a trade makes you flexible
Imagine how much noisier that "giant sucking sound" would be without bearings Once Made In The USA. With synthetic oil, too. The question remains, though, about why we're reading stories in October of 2017 about NAFTA's impact, "boots on the factory floor. Is it because we're being softened up for, conditioned to even more value-stripping from the American Economy? What's left to strip?
There killing me and the dream God bless the workers
5:06
Where was Trump?
He is making America Great Again
Addison you mean dump..lol
@@werearethedreamteam3724 agree i think
Uh more great good paying jobs...tremendous.!
I wonder if the taxes paid by the company were the biggest deciding factor on the shutdown? I know an individual that recently went through this with GE. He had train his replacement as well. I think he had about 25 or better years with the company. These jobs take actions from government officials that really care about keeping the jobs here. I hope these stories do not continue.
meanwhile we r still paying trades people in Alberta canada over 100 per hour....with oil at 50
+quarry creek nah they get fly in and fly out. company pays for camp stay. they just need to pay for food.
What should pay them
Yeah and it happened on Donald Trump's watch!
Exactly what was Donald Trump supposed to do about this? Explain?
WHERE IS TRUMP
Mark got his 30 pieces of silver .
JohnsRadios And John got none because he’s too busy sitting there being bitter.
That's capitalism for you. It works when it's done right.
MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN
Gooey 911 trump and clinton both support capitalism, its the same outcome through different bills, thats why we need progressive politicians like bernie sanders instead of republican establishment democrats like clinton, they are the same people just wearing different colors
Obama was here
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( South park voice ) They took are jobs !!! Hahaha
NAFTA is great for the corporations, it's been terrible for many working people. I live in Northern Ontario, on the border with the UP, where is the free trade? There's still duty to pay at the border over a certain amount. As a Canadian, I'm no fan of Trump, but he's right, we're getting screwed on free trade - from the Canadian side. Combined with the corrupt and an environmentalist provincial government in Toronto that (expletive deleted) consumers with the high price of power, the manufacturing sector in Ontario has been gutted. Many of those jobs have been shipped to Mexico. If governments wanted to reshape our national economy, they should have let us in on the deal.
Awesome content, though it'd be nice to have subtitles, eh?
saltag
Agreed. Older folk have trouble hearing sometimes, and also some of us watch at 1.5x speed.