Honeywell's Census Adjustment - Part 3
Honeywell's Census Adjustment - Part 3
Date: Monday, July 04, 2005 4:25 PM
JOB DESTRUCTION NEWSLETTER
by Rob Sanchez
July 04, 2005 No. 1283
In the first of the series on Honeywell I equated their self proclaimed plans for "census adjustment" with ethnic cleansing because they intend on replacing American citizens with foreign workers by using H-1B/L-1 visas and by shipping jobs offshore. On internet blogs Honeywell's plans are being called other creative names, such as the "Holocaust at Honeywell".
According to Jon Talton, the leading local economy writer in the Arizona Republic newspaper, the State of Arizona needs more companies like Honeywell. He then goes on to describe the paranoid employees that are worried about the massive job terminations that will occur as Honeywell shifts thousands of jobs to Eastern Europe.
Is Talton a dimbulb or what? The Wall Street Journal ran a story that said Honeywell is going to grow its foreign operations by 5,000 workers over the next several years, with massive job terminations in the U.S. to follow, and he thinks Honeywell employees are being too paranoid?
Talton says that Honeywell has foresight, and indeed he is right on that one! As an example of their incredible foresight, Honeywell brought in out-of-state HR volunteers to wield the job cutting ax. Last week about 150 people at the FMS (Flight Management System) division got their heads chopped off by the out-of-state executioners and more will follow after the July 4th holiday. How silly it would be for remaining Honeywell employees to feel even a momentary thought of paranoia!
Articles Used for this Newsletter
http://www.kpho.com/Global/story.asp?S=3421734
Honeywell Layoffs Coming
http://www.azcentral.com/business/columns/articles/0630talton30.html
State needs foresight that Honeywell has
http://www.nationalvanguard.org/story.php?id=5194
Holocaust at Honeywell
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/business/articles/0701honeywell01.html
Honeywell Aerospace denies foreign plans
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http://www.kpho.com/Global/story.asp?S=3421734
(watch video report on this page)
Honeywell Layoffs Coming
Honeywell is preparing a major restructuring in its aerospace division and that means some people in the valley are going to lose their jobs.
Honeywell is Arizona's fourth-largest private employer. With nearly 13,500 workers, Honeywell says it plans to streamline the Phoenix-based aerospace division to provide better customer service.
The company says details on the job cuts will not be available until the planning process is complete, possibly by the end of the year.
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http://www.azcentral.com/business/columns/articles/0630talton30.html
State needs foresight that Honeywell has
Jun. 30, 2005 12:00 AM
An article in the Wall Street Journal this week deepened the paranoia among Honeywell employees in Greater Phoenix. In an interview with new aerospace CEO Robert Gillette, the Journal reported that the company plans to shift thousands of jobs, perhaps 5,000, to low-wage countries in Central Europe and Asia in the next few years.
Honeywell spokesman Bill Reavis told me Wednesday that the number was a "wild guess" pulled from raw data in a 120-page strategic-planning report. Jobs overseas, he said, likely will come from foreign partnerships. For example, if Honeywell wants to do business in a country that asks for some production to happen there.
"We will grow where the customer need is the most," Reavis said.
What is clear: Gillette has come with a mandate to shake things up. Customers are telling him that Honeywell is too bureaucratic, and one of his goals is to make the company faster and more responsive. That's behind the company's sweeping reorganization of its aerospace units.
Having failed to win the biggest contracts for Boeing's new 787 airliner, Honeywell intends to focus on the growing market for business jets. It also will search for foreign partners to gain access to overseas markets and severely cut costs.
This is not a company in trouble but one positioning itself to the new global reality. The division posted $10.3 billion in sales last year and still commands an edge in supplying technology to existing Boeing jets and anticipated business from the Airbus superjumbo. Its technology for commercial aircraft, business and general aviation planes as well as defense and space is still considered a Tiffany product.
None of which is likely to ease worries among Honeywell's workforce. On the Internet, union workers discuss such topics as the in-house term "census adjustment," which one writer calls "cutesy corporate terminology (that) is just another way of describing their new policy of replacing U.S. labor with cheaper foreign labor."
The rough ride that America faces from globalization has been rattling Arizona semiconductor and information-technology jobs for several years. The displacement usually came slowly in small job cuts and moves offshore. Now Honeywell is facing up to the implications of globalization, and Arizona will not be immune.
Honeywell has already announced that 225 to 235 jobs will be cut from its Deer Valley plant. So even if Arizona operations remain a vital part of the company, a lean-and-mean restructuring logically would mean fewer executive and middle-manager jobs here. That would continue a quiet trend of the state losing these high-paid corporate jobs, with their decision-making power, and failing to replace them.
Honeywell employs 11,000 in Greater Phoenix and 13,000 statewide. The expertise and experience these workers represent should give Arizona a strong case with the Honeywell brass. But especially in an economy with 3 billion new capitalists, hungry for prosperity and able to bid down wages for the same quality work, we can't take anything for granted.
Keeping the jobs should be a priority, especially considering that Arizona is not attracting new Intels, Motorolas or Honeywells. We've also been failing to seed enough tech upstarts, much less grow them into the corporate leaders of the future.
I hope business, university and political leaders are already on the phone to Honeywell.
Reach Talton at jon.talton@arizonarepublic.com or (602) 444-8464.
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http://www.nationalvanguard.org/story.php?id=5194
Holocaust at Honeywell
News; Posted on: 2005-06-03 20:44:13 [ Printer friendly / Instant flyer ]
Honeywell plans massive layoffs of White workers to make room for Third World replacements; Move called 'ethnic cleansing.'
Honeywell employees are about to face some nasty mass terminations. I was told by a Honeywell employee that a meeting was held recently for Honeywell workers. In that meeting high level executives told the employees that the company was going to implement a "Census Adjustment" in order to serve their customers better.
Honeywell claims that they need to adjust their census downward in order to help customers. By some magic process cutting thousands employees from the payroll will help customers. They even have the gall to claim that Honeywell workers think the job cuts are a wonderful idea.
"It's a pretty significant change, but it's one everyone, from customers and to those who work here, are behind and know is necessary to improve what we do and how we do it," Gillette said.
At the same time that Honeywell is busy firing American employees their executives are going out into the media to make their case for increasing the H-1B cap. They are even whining that it's too difficult to use H-1Bs for government contracts. Cleo Cabuz, director of Honeywell International's sensors research lab, claims that Honeywell is being forced to hire foreign workers because there just aren't enough qualified Americans that they can hire.
Companies like Honeywell are talking out of both sides of their mouth. They are firing massive numbers of American citizens while at the same time they are actively lobbying for more H-1Bs. If so many Honeywell employees aren't qualified to do the job, then shouldn't whomever hired them be fired?
GE Global Research spokesman Jim Healy put things another way. He said that they will put hiring on hold until more H-1Bs are available.
Corporate [hitmen] call what they are doing "census adjustment" but a more accurate term would be ethnic cleansing.
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http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/business/articles/0701honeywell01.html
Honeywell Aerospace denies foreign plans
Jonathan J. Higuera
The Arizona Republic
Jul. 1, 2005 12:00 AM
Honeywell Aerospace is again on the defensive about reports on how many people will lose jobs in its restructuring.
Company spokesman Bill Reavis said a Wall Street Journal story that ran Tuesday was wrong when it reported the unit planned to grow its foreign operations by 5,000 workers over the next several years.
"Honeywell Aerospace has no immediate plans to expand overseas," Reavis said. "If the necessity arises to increase service or work with customers in foreign locations, we will expand there to meet those needs."
The company has said it does not know how many jobs will be affected by the restructuring, which begins Tuesday
It is expected to be complete by year's end.
Wall Street Journal reporter Andy Pasztor said the company "is splitting hairs" and that Honeywell Aerospace President Robert Gillette confirmed in an interview the authenticity of an internal Honeywell document that spelled out plans to boost overseas payroll by more than 5,000 workers.
But Reavis, who listened in on the interview, said no figure was ever discussed.
"He never asked us about that," Reavis said.
Pasztor said, "(Gillette) clearly said the foreign work force would increase through new jobs and moving jobs there."
Earlier this month, Honeywell announced it was reorganizing the aerospace division, the company's largest, with a goal to streamline customer service to its clients.
Honeywell Aerospace has about 11,000 workers in the Phoenix area.
Statewide, Honeywell International, which is based in Morristown, N.J., has about 13,500 workers, making it the state's fourth-largest private employer.
More than 90 percent of Honeywell Aerospace's 43,000 workers are in North America.
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