Authorities probe reported hanging at GE plant

[warrprayer]

Source: GoErie.com

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Authorities probe reported hanging at GE plant

Staff report, Erie Times-News










Authorities are investigating a reported hanging tonight in Building 20 at GE Transportation, 2901 East Lake Road, in Lawrence Park Township, according to Erie County dispatch.


Township police and fire crews were called to the plant at about 7:23 p.m. after workers discovered a person hanging from a crane in Building 20, according to county dispatch.


No other details were immediately available

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Read more: http://www.goerie.com/article/20131115/NEWS02/311159852/Authorities-probe-reported-hanging-at-GE-plant

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This is after nearly 1,000 jobs are being outsourced to G.E.'s new plant in fT. Worth Texas. Rumor on my local message board from G.E. workers is that the victim is a woman who recently learned she was being laid off.
Funny how well G.E. has managed to keep this little human interest story quiet, one would think this would be all over national news networks. Guess all their media holdings pay off when it counts.
We certainly wouldn't want to interrupt "Duck Dynasty" or "Honey Boo Boo" to show the proles the real cost of vulture capitalism.

UPDATE:

" Published: November 16, 2013 9:18 PM EST
Updated: November 16, 2013 9:16 PM EST

Deputy coroner: Death at GE in Lawrence Park investigated as suicide

Staff report, Erie Times-News










A 57-year-old Erie man was found dead at his work station inside Building 20 on Friday at GE Transportation in Lawrence Park.


Erie County Deputy Coroner Korac Timon confirmed the death today and said there has not yet been a ruling on it, but that it was being investigated as a suicide.


Timon would not identify the man pending notification of family.


Authorities were called to the plant Friday at about 7:23 p.m. on a report of a hanging from a crane at the building.


GE Transportation spokeswoman Jennifer Erickson said the victim was a man employed at the plant. Timon said the man had worked there for more than 30 years.


"Our thoughts are with the employee's family and co-workers. Professionals from GE's Employee Assistance Program will be on-site this weekend and available to help support employees during this difficult time,'' Erickson said in an e-mail.


Timon said the man's body was found by a co-worker, less than an hour after the last time he had been seen alive. While no official ruling has been made, "it is not a work-related accident," he said."


http://www.goerie.com/article/20131116/NEWS02/311169896/Deputy-coroner%3A-Death-at-GE-in-Lawrence-Park-investigated-as-suicide

[IrishAyes]

1. This could be just the tip of an iceberg, too. Stay tuned.

[warrprayer]

4. score another one for Rick Perry

"no details are available"

[IrishAyes]

7. Eventually the most severe efforts at suppression will fail.

That's when the riots start.

[warrprayer]

10. it is the arrogance

of the investment class. We are equipment to them, to be discarded when no longer useful.

[IrishAyes]

11. One thing Harry Bridges used to say,

"The best business plan in the world is worthless when you've got a riot in the warehouse."

[State the Obvious]

20. It brings to mind the question, "What would Harry do?"

In my part of town, the positive sentiments toward Harry Bridges run high. (Port of LA longshoreman) My guess would be that he would say…."The first word in "United States" is "UNITED". UNITED we stand, divided we fall. It's time Americans got their sh*t together!"

That would be my guess.

[IrishAyes]

26. It would be a good one.

One of my relatives was Harry's West Coast business manager, with him from the start, and he gave me his own 50-year union pin for safekeeping before he died . It's just about the most precious earthly object I possess. I contacted the Harry Bridges Institute and asked if they wanted it, and they said yes, thank you. Although I have the DNA to live quite a few more years in my right mind, lately I've been thinking how it's time to let go and send it to its rightful place in history.

Maybe I'll take a picture of it first so I can slip a small copy in at the bottom of Harry's official portrait along with the two of him as a young man on the ship that brought him to the states. It's not Harry's pin, of course, but would still make a nice addition to what I consider an icon. Uncle got his head bashed in during the dock strike but survived because he was such a big old hardheaded bruiser. That steel plate in his head was his pride and joy! I knew he was fading fast when he stopped telling me the war stories he knew I loved to hear.

It's funny = the few people who wind up at my house look at Harry's picture on the living room wall and invariably guess it's Jacques Cousteau! Didn't take me long to start replying, "No, but he sure looks like Cousteau, doesn't he?" In the first place he's unknown to most Central MidWesterners, at least in the boonies, and in the second place if you say the word 'union' in their presence they tend to freak out because they're pretty sure it means 'commie', to which I'll then say so what? and we won't part quietly. Already half the workmen in the area won't come near my house for any amount of $, and most people around here are in desperate need.

So I tend to avoid the subject of partisan politics face to face, instead speaking of principles if anything at all. Sometimes people give me a startled look because they didn't expect to hear anything at all from me that they could agree with. You have to meet people where they are.

[IrishAyes]

27. Something occurs to me:

If anyone ever writes a nice song in that lady's memory and to her honor, please send it along to me if you will. You'd be likelier to hear of it than I would. Where's Woody Guthrie when you need him?

[JeffHead]

2. I guarantee NBC won't touch this one with a ten foot pole. n\t

[warrprayer]

9. bingo! n/t

[mahatmakanejeeves]

21. GE sold its stake in NBC earlier this year.

NBCUniversal
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBCUniversal

Comcast NBC merger
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comcast_NBC_merger

In December 2009, Comcast announced its intent to acquire a majority stake in the media conglomerate NBC Universal from GE. The planned acquisition was subject to scrutiny from activists and government officials; their concerns primarily surrounded the potential effects of the vertical integration that the merger could create, as Comcast is also heavily involved in cable television and internet services in many media markets. The deal went through, resulting in Comcast owning 51% of the company until March 2013, when GE divested its stake; Comcast now owns 100% of NBC Universal.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. She was making a statement with her suicide.

She wanted it seen.

She succeeded.

May she rest in peace, now...

[warrprayer]

6. thanks Peggy

and they are doing their best to NOT let it be seen. I have had many friends who work at G.E. Erie. They are like a family... Erie is a solid democratic town for about the last 100 years, they had one republican mayor who lasted about a year.

[tblue]

5. It's not being reported anywhere else!

Wow. This is way too 1984.

[warrprayer]

8. it is now.

at times like this I really appreciate D.U..
What I am really hoping is that people on here in the journalism field take this and run with it.

[IrishAyes]

28. One of the greatest movies of all time, on my top 5 list

Along with Matewan and the first b&w version of Salt of the Earth.

[warrprayer]

34. posting a better version

[russspeakeasy]

13. Been there. Damn near did that.

[warrprayer]

14. don't give them the satisfaction

why make them happy? Make a career out of being a thorn in their side like I do. Till the day I die.

[russspeakeasy]

16. It took a few years, but that was my decision too.

[warrprayer]

17. It was a good decision

why make their job easy?

Glad you decided to stck around!!!

[IrishAyes]

29. More power to you.

[warrprayer]

15. "probe a "reported" hanging"

you've got a dead fucking body hanging from a crane. and it's a "reported" hanging, as in "unconfirmed". BASTARDS

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"Township police and fire crews were called to the plant at about 7:23 p.m. after workers discovered a person hanging from a crane in Building 20, according to county dispatch. "
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report this you toadies

[Mnemosyne]

18. K&R nt

[Spitfire of ATJ]

19. We're getting to the point where I expected it to be a CEO.

[FiveGoodMen]

22. One can dream...

[NewJeffCT]

23. while the hanging is a tragedy

why should this apparent suicide be national news and not the other 100 or so suicides that took place that day? Shouldn't a suicide be given less publicity?

And, if it's a murder, why should it make national headlines vs the other 40 or so murders that took place that day?

[RVN VET]

24. Really?

If this suicide was caused by -- and there's no proof here, but a fairly reasonable allegation -- the loss of a job due to "outsourcing" to Texas, it is by its very nature of national interest. It becomes a significant issue, I think, if a great corporation moves to a place where it can pay lower wages and not worry about restrictive environmental laws -- and the result is the ruination of 1,000 families and, possibly, the death by suicide of one of the victimized workers.

It at least deserves investigation.


'nuff said, period.

[NewJeffCT]

25. If the job were being outsourced to China, Mexico

India or Vietnam or similar, I could see how it could be a story. But, the jobs are staying within the country.

My father used to have to deal with similar way back in the 1960s and 1970s when United Technologies would ship factory jobs in unionized Connecticut down to right-to-work Georgia. So, it's not exactly like this is something new.

[IrishAyes]

30. No, but the very fact that it's OLD HAT accentuates the importance!

Are you going to be one of those surprised people when the whole damn country erupts? And it very well might, especially if Bubba ever figures out who's really been screwing him over all his life.

[RVN VET]

31. Why should it matter where the jobs of 1,000 people went?

What matters is that they went, not because the company was losing money, but because the company wanted more money. The jobs were taken from 1,000 people so the company could move to a place where it could squeeze a little more juice out of the people it employs.

That's the story. Not where they went, but THAT they went and that, as a result, at least one poor sap committed suicide. So that a company that was functioning well could function more profitably -- no, not produce a better product, but generate a larger profit.

1,000 people out of work. A tragedy for the workers and their families. One of whom, perhaps, killed herself because of it.

And I agree: the fact that this is what business does IS the problem. It's not something new? In an enlightened and compassionate society, it would be understood as the cruel and destructive (to the workers and their families) move that it is and not tolerated.

But this is neither an enlightened nor compassionate society.

[mtasselin]

32. where

Where is the liberal media, just kidding there is know main street liberal media in this country. The msm has their marching orders an it is not to rock the boat.

[warrprayer]

33. UPDATED THIS OP

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