In the midst of a tough negotiation with GE Datex-Ohmeda, IAM Local 1406, IAM District 10 members and their families recently gathered for a rally in Madison, WI as a sign of solidarity and to remind the company that these were the hardworking men and women who spent the pandemic on the frontlines building anesthesia, respiratory and infant care machines. Their life-saving ventilators were used around the world to fight the pandemic.
“As the pandemic raged it was workers, not CEOs, who kept this country from falling apart,” said IAM District 10 Directing Business Representative Alex Hoekstra. “The members of IAM 1406 worked tirelessly to build the ventilators that saved countless lives and made General Electric massive profits. District 10 is incredibly proud to represent these heroes and I call on General Electric management to reward them appropriately….”
We got what s needed for COVID-19 vaccination completely wrong
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I would summarize the leading thought in 2020 on vaccination on LessWrong and the review that s now popular in the mainstream as:
New vaccination technology like mRNA-based vaccines and adenovirus-based vaccines allow faster development of vaccines. We still have the challenge of building enough vaccine factories. To build enough vaccine factories.
This seems to be wrong and the better view is:
Peptide-based vaccines are well understood and unsexy. We have existing adjuvants with well understood safety profile. They can be easily produced with equipment we already have. Given that they are unsexy nobody wants to run a clinical trial right and Western governments are interested in suing people for developing such technology then they are interested in vaccine development.
MADISON, Wis. — More than 90 employees at General Electric Datex-Ohmeda in Madison were laid off on Friday, January 15, the second round of layoffs following a decrease in production of ventilators and anesthesia machines. Friday’s layoffs followed a round of more than 50 employees laid off in December 2020, according to a press release from the local chapter of.
GE Healthcare in Madison lays off about 140 workers as ventilator production slows
January 19, 2021 10:15 AM Naomi Kowles
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MADISON, Wis. More than 90 employees at General Electric Datex-Ohmeda in Madison were laid off on Friday, January 15, the second round of layoffs following a decrease in production of ventilators and anesthesia machines. Friday’s layoffs followed a round of about 50 employees laid off in December 2020, according to the district chapter of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) union.
The Madison plant ramped up hiring efforts last spring with about 250 employees brought on to increase ventilator production after General Electric received a $336 million contract under the Defense Production Act in April 2020 to produce 50,000 ventilators by June 13, 2020. Vice President Mike Pence visited the Madison plant last April to highlight the increased production.