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"We were never really given a chance"
EI employees will never
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November 15th 2002.
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EI / Huron
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2/3/2009
Comments We've Received from EI employees:
Comment 04/25/13:
Can you believe this clown, McNamara!?! He is
willing to bankrupt Endicott Interconnect because of his PRIVATE JET!!! Hey
Jay, how is it you have a private jet when the business you're "managing"
is in such bad shape that you have to fire people because you can't make payroll?
Ever heard of FLYING COACH??? You are an absolute disgrace, and should be ashamed
of yourself!!! And that also goes for the rest of the buffoons with delusions
of grandeur that have run this once thriving business into the ground. You know
who you are - you’re the same people who just screwed every taxpayer in
the Village of Endicott, Town of Union, and the Union-Endicott School District
right after your favorable treatment by New York State expired. This is just
another example of BAD MANAGEMENT, and believe me, the rest of IBM isn't far
behind its former IBM Endicott Microelectronics Plant. Call or write your New
York State Senator, Assemblyman, and Governor Cuomo today and DEMAND an inquiry
into this debacle. -Pig Stain on Your Fat Chin-
Comment 04/25/13:
Looks like Jay Mac had to finally spill the beans
in Fed. Court. I wonder how much he walked away with after he "retired".
http://www.pressconnects.com/article/20130424/BUSINESS/304240014/600-workers-remain-Endicott-Interconnect
-Jimmy Jones-
Comment 07/03/12:
See following.....
Endicott-Interconnect-Technologies-says-layoffs-were-due-softness-third-quarter
The number was around 166. J.Mac and Maines...
Your ship is rapidly sinking and soon there will be a mass exodus. Good luck
and thanks for nothing. -An upset EI employee-
Comment 05/10/12:
EIT to go on shared work again......blame, this time is slow CXA due to sales
"execs" not meeting goals.
2nd time in a year. Execs are unethical and lie. "No layoffs.......two
weeks later......"resource action....Sorry.... the business model is not
sustainable..........How about "We don't pay the bills, so no parts, no
building of panels, CONTRACT CANCELLED! -Anonymous-
Editor's note: Alliance made attempts to organize
EI/Huron employees many years ago. The response was light and people were too
afraid to speak out against the EIT/Huron management. The campaign was abandoned.
However, we appreciate the inside information that comes to us anonymously.
It just goes to show that Alliance was right about EIT 10 years ago. Not much
has changed. Thanks for the comment.
Comment
04/15/12: Jay McNamara is a coward! He continually spouts fantastic
bull**** of how "We've turned the corner" and yet EI is a miserable
place to work, Layoffs are continually looming and they don't pay their bills.
Huron has a hard-on for BAE since they set up shop.
What they want (most all buildings on campus), they get.
What about the poor SOB's at EI? No raises, higher insurance premiums, and empty
promises. Take take take!!
For all interested, Jay parks his 65+ K Escalade in the middle lot at B/40.
Same goes for the rest of the execs.
Total focus on 5S, Kaizen, and business Excellence bull****!!
Focus on winning contracts and stop sending $$$$$ to the Cayman Islands.
The CEO has not really been seen for the past 2 yrs. Time to move out of here
and to hell with Matthews and Maines!!!! -William Wallace-
Comments 11/30/2009:
We've received some reports that EI/Huron has purchased
a company named eV Products,
about 6 months ago. Ei/Huron is now in the process of firing people again, for
various reasons. If you have more information please send a comment from the
form above. -Alliance-
Comments 3/11/2007:
Check out todays press!! Saturday 3/10/07.. This should get
the blood boiling. See the front page,"State might force higher electric
bills".
The story says that EIT is leading an Albany lobby effort to set aside all
cheap power available for business exclusively and to pass the cost of $5
to $10 per month onto home owners! Homeowners, usually have their rates keep
a little lower by having cheap hydroelectricty set aside for them. Jay Simonis,
of EIT, feels bussiness should get it all.
As Maines has done before, Simonis threatens to expand EIT,"OUT OF STATE",
if they don't get a cheap electric deal... Hey didn't NYSEG give them a deal
when EIT was formed back in 2002?? Didn't NYS taxpayers help fund the EIT
deal with grants and by forming an NYS Empire Zone, for EIT? Don't Empire
Zones get some utility disccounts...NOW EIT wants even more!!! Or they will..
"Expand Out of State!"
What blood suckers..and how many are really employed by EIT? That number per
the story has it at 2000! I doubt that, judging from the
empty parking lots alone.
On thing that the story misses. Electricty cost is an legal tax expense, that
bussinesses can write some of off on their taxes. Most homes owners can not
write a dime of electricy off on taxes... Funny how this is never mentioned
by Albany, EIT or the press.. -Anonymous-
Comments 4/24/2006:
Did you catch the Sunday EIvil story by Platsky? He has it
almost right.
1. IBM couldn't allow the site to be closed down cold turkey
in 2002. Anyone working at IBM Endicott at the time knows this. Simply because,
IBM needed the boards being made in Endicott. What they needed was a business
deal to keep boards being made, yet allow IBM to gradually phase out panel
manufacturing. When the plant fails IBM won't be the bad guys; the new owners
will. IBM's escapes with less harm to it's public image.
2. If Sanmina did buy the site in 2002, I doubt they would
shut it down. Why? The plating equipment and the waste treatment is worth
it's weight in gold to anyone making panels. To relocate the plating and
build a new waste treatment system would bankrupt you. One thing Endicott
has, is a good waste treatment system well suited for panel manufacturing.
Today, to replicate this system would be extremely costly. Today Sanmina
is very busy and I'd bet they could use the extra capacity and talented
workers. I'd doubt Sanmina would cold turkey shut down the plant if they
had purchased it..... However this makes good spin to give the public illusion,
that IBM and the EI owners are heroes.
3. Employees for $5,000 each could have put up as much money
as the EI owners did, roughly. I imagine if this had occurred the EI story
would be a better one. With employees and engineers being employee owners,
there certainly would not be so many quitting for new jobs. I'd guess they
would have worked harder than ever and succeeded!...-Anonymous-
There have been layoffs since thursday, December
9, 2004 at Sanmina - Owego,NY. I know there are at least 59 people that were
laid off including me. I have been there almost 16 years and alot of the other
production workers were older and had been there along time also. My husband
is still employed there so please don't use my name or email. We are afraid
of repercussions. This company seems to be as bad as EIT. I fear this is the
beginning of the end for the Owego plant. I believe they will eventually outsource
the jobs to China. I was very shocked to get laid off right before Christmas.
It is very depressing and what do I tell my little girl about why she has
less for Christmas. Also, I think it is weird that these layoffs weren't announced
on the news or in the Press&Sun-Bullentin.Please post something about
it on your website. We all need a voice and a union. Thank you! Merry Christmas
and Happy New Year! -Anonymous-
I would just like to thank you for putting
out such an informative website about how corrupt EIT is and how they mistreat
their employees. I was recently laid off a month ago after I just started
the job in Laminations in May. They say that their employees are their number
one resource yet they seem to lay people off and fire people on a whim.
They couldn't care less whether or not I only lacked 2 weeks in order
to get unemployment or not. I'm 24 years old and Jay McNamara said
himself, "We need to get young people to see a future here in Broome
County" yet he lays people off in a whim. I've come to the conclusion
that in order for me to have any future at all I will have to leave this area
and attend college somewhere in which has a better economy and a state government
that doesn't give massive tax breaks to companies like EIT,
run by a bunch of tyrants, and then in turn make its town Tax Payers pick
up the tab like Endicott did. I'm so angry that in the mean time before I
leave this area, if EIT calls me back to work, I will outright refuse because
who knows if they will just do the same thing to me again after a few months.
In all of the places I have worked I have never seen such a disregard of respect
for its employees as I have seen at EIT, not to mention extremely poor business
management. When I worked
there we lacked neccessary supplies in order for us to do our jobs
because EIT did not pay their bills correctly, they just stiffed their
suppliers with the bills all the time so few companies wanted to do business
with them. In the meanwhile EIT expected us to increase production without
the right supplies. I truly believe EIT won't last any more than 3 more years
because of how the place is run and as far as I'm concerned you cannot have
a succesful company when the work force moral is always so low because of
employee exploitation and unappreciation. I remember when Jay McNamara (A
tyrant), came through on a tour in order to save money in our dept. I heard
him ask our manager whether or not we knew what we were doing, referring to
us in the Lay-Up area. I cannot believe how ignorant and arrogant Jay really
is. Thanks EIT, for nothing... Keep up the good work on the website, it's
nice to see that someone is sticking up for EIT employees. -anonymous-
November 1st 2002 E.I. celebrates
it's new beginning in Endicott.
November 15th 2002 200 hundred
people are laid off. Less than 10 come back.
December, 2003 E.I. CEO Jay
Macnamara goes on a rampage to clean up the plant leaving workers stressed
out by the way management handled the situation.
December, 2003 E.I. workers
learn that they will be spending most of the Christmas Holiday at work. Vacation
can be used next year.
January, 2004 Workers want to
know where the profit sharing is that was promised by E.I.
February, 2004 E.I. tells employees
that the "Books" are still open and that's why they haven't seen
the profit sharing yet.
February, 2004 Governor Pataki
in Endicott to announce new deal between Endicott Interconnect and Ensco to
create a revolutionary high-speed explosive detection device, it could create
up to 700 new jobs.
April, 2004 60-100 workers fired
from what is said to be "Poor Performance."
April, 2004 Brian Gorman one
if the E.I. employees let go is interviewed on local news saying that the
poor performance firings don't add up being he was sent a private note by
a supervisor saying he'll give him a good reference if he needs one.
April, 2004 E.I. employees still have not received nor heard
anything on the profit sharing that was promised to them months earlier.
In Jay MacNamara's speech to the rotary He challenged
area Rotarians during the Rotary meeting to help dispel negative attitudes
that exist among the community. If Jay MacNamara wants to dispel negative
attitudes among the community then he better start giving positive news. Negative
attitudes aren't the fault of the community but they come from the company
itself. Why would someone want to support a company that has done the stuff
that was listed in the timeline, and the scary thing about all that stuff
listed in the timeline is that E.I. is only about a year and half old. -
anonymous -
These firings are based on their appraisals,
supposedly. I don't buy it. A couple of my friends got let go, and they were
workers that never had low reviews. It was their first review with EIT and
they were let go. Once they weed out the N's (needs improvment) they are moving
to the M's which is "Meets Requirements". Most of the people let
go were over 20 years higher paid people and a couple of lower paid people.
- anonymous -
Well... these selective firings are a disgrace,
and should be illegal. I can't believe we are hiring supplementals and making
them permanant employees and at the same time getting rid of decent workers,
eventually through attrition it will be all ex-ibm employees, since a certain
percentage of employees have to be "needs improvement" on their
appraisals. We currently have more work than we can handle at this point and
we have made a monthly committ yet this year, we just keep falling further
behind. But yet we get rid of good expierienced people, that unfortunately
made too much money due to their years of service at IBM. This isn't a firing
due to poor performance, it's finding an excuse to get rid of people that
in their minds make too much and hire new labor for next to nothing....Those
people were not poor performers...- anonymous -
They aren't calling it a layoff but it sure
feels like it. I can not understand how they can fire people with good skills
and then hire people for supplement and permanent positions. I'm thinking
of getting out, and not working under so much pressure so as not to make a
mistake and be the next one out the door. The managers were told they had
to cut department expenses by 5%, so they are cutting their costs at the expense
of their employees. - anonymous -
I would like to comment on the new idea management
has come up with now. They have put us all on a aws schedule so we have to
work weekends with out being paid overtime, and we are all not working the
same plan. It is different by department. My department is on a 10 days on
4 days off 7 days on 2 days off 3 days on 2 days off and then start the 10
days on again. They have gone too far. They say they are doing this for our
profit sharing but no mention of that at all. This is the latest news from
EI. I think I am ready to sign up if that is still an option. -
anonymous -
Editors note: Yes, that's still an
option. There are signup form options on the front of the EIT Chapter web
page, in the upper left corner.
It is good to hear that EI will be creating
jobs. Hopefully, they will be jobs that are careers, with decent salaries
and benefits. Currently EI does not offer a pension. If EI does become as
successful as projected, EI will be able to offer a pension plan, other than
a 401k. A union contract would help employees by getting profit sharing promises,
in a legally binding contract.The EI workforce deserves a contract and some
financial reward, as well as the owners. - anonymous -
It seems that the temps have more rights than
the regulars.They get ok'd to not work the weekend overtime and their attendance
is horrendous.Some of them do more talking and internet surfing than work.We'd
be better off without them.If a regular employee asks for a weekend off they
get questioned like a common criminal.I see the only way out of this is to
join up now. My fellow EI employees it is only going to get worse.We need
a voice. Now. - anonymous -
Can I sign-up on the web or send this printout
in off the union web site? Because this place is going down fast and they
don't care about the people at all. I just want to be treated like a person,
I do have a brain. - anonymous -
Editor's note: You
can printout the form, fill it in, and send it to 435 Main Street, Johnson
City, NY 13790.
Good work passing out those flyers! Keep it
up! And don't forget 3rd shift! - anonymous
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Editor's note:
Thanks. We will try to get flyers to 2nd and 3rd
shift, if you can tell us what doors are the best to hand out flyers at night.
Use the comments section or send us an e-mail: endicottalliance@stny.rr.com
We were told today that no vacations are going
to be taken. That's only in certain areas like Hyberbga, complex assembles,
and panels. We were told we can carry our vacation over to next year but have
to use it by March. We know how that works. They will change that story again
too, I'm sure. We were also told today that we will be working both days this
weekend and next. I went to my manager to discuss options for child care issues
and was told I can work a different shift to contribute my share of overtime.
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anonymous -
