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117th Congress: DEMS IN DISARRAY!!!111!!

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Well, there is moving your headquarters, and then there is moving your company. Delta has 33k employees in GA. If you think all of them would move to *Minneapolis*, well, I guess you've never met southerners... Now, a symbolic gesture of moving your 200-person corporate office (a la Boeing's "move" to Chicago or Toyota NA's move from Torrance, CA to Irvine(?), TX) is doable. But I'm not sure what would be in it for Delta - their employees would just be peeved that the C-suite types moved on to a greener pasture while leaving them behind to deal with NJC (new Jim Crow).
 
LynahFan said:
Well, there is moving your headquarters, and then there is moving your company. Delta has 33k employees in GA. If you think all of them would move to *Minneapolis*, well, I guess you've never met southerners... Now, a symbolic gesture of moving your 200-person corporate office (a la Boeing's "move" to Chicago or Toyota NA's move from Torrance, CA to Irvine(?), TX) is doable. But I'm not sure what would be in it for Delta - their employees would just be peeved that the C-suite types moved on to a greener pasture while leaving them behind to deal with NJC (new Jim Crow).
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All my family that worked for NWA just jumpseats to ATL for work every week. They didn’t move.
 
Deutsche Gopher Fan said:
All my family that worked for NWA just jumpseats to ATL for work every week. They didn’t move.
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Yeah, that works for the flight crews (pilots + attendants), but I wonder what fraction of the 33K that is? After all, most of them already don't have much incentive to live in ATL, so I'm guessing that the employee base in ATL is already skewed more heavily to ground crews, maintainers, airport ticket agents, etc - jobs that can't be done "remotely."
 
LynahFan said:
Yeah, that works for the flight crews (pilots + attendants), but I wonder what fraction of the 33K that is? After all, most of them already don't have much incentive to live in ATL, so I'm guessing that the employee base in ATL is already skewed more heavily to ground crews, maintainers, airport ticket agents, etc - jobs that can't be done "remotely."
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Mine are neither and are flight planning and ops, but yeah, gate agents won’t be moving.
 
Deutsche Gopher Fan said:
All my family that worked for NWA just jumpseats to ATL for work every week. They didn’t move.
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The son of one of my former business partners worked for NWA planning their Asian flight schedules when the merger occurred. He was required to move to Atlanta if he wanted to keep his job. He actually really loves Atlanta now, so it would interesting to see what would happen if they moved him back to Minneapolis.
 
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It won’t likely happen but MN could house delta, with the infrastructure here that was NWA HQ.
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The old NWA HQ is now the MN Vikings HQ. I drove through there a few weeks ago and they’ve completely changed everything between Delaware Ave and Dodd Rd along that stretch of 494.

I’d be curious to see where an airline could find enough real estate relatively near the airport to suit their needs.

sorry, not nitpicking, just typing some internal thoughts on it.
 
Even if Delta moved their campus to Minneapolis, they likely wouldn't dehub ATL. It's their biggest and most important hub, and most of those 33K jobs support airside operations there (pilots, FA's, mechanics, gate agents, station operations, etc...). Everyone else would either move to Minneapolis, commute, or find another job. We still have people that commute from Pittsburgh.

That said, they're not likely going to move their entire campus to Minneapolis, especially after the year they just had.
 
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The old NWA HQ is now the MN Vikings HQ. I drove through there a few weeks ago and they’ve completely changed everything between Delaware Ave and Dodd Rd along that stretch of 494.

I’d be curious to see where an airline could find enough real estate relatively near the airport to suit their needs.

sorry, not nitpicking, just typing some internal thoughts on it.
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The training facility is owned by Lockheed Martin now too (If it's the building I think it is). They also don't need to be near the airport. United is located in downtown Chicago at the Willis Tower.
 
MinnesotaNorthStar said:
The training facility is owned by Lockheed Martin now too (If it's the building I think it is). They also don't need to be near the airport. United is located in downtown Chicago at the Willis Tower.
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Boeing HQ is in Chicago too.

In the Morton-Thiokol Building. Now that is karma waiting to happen.
 
LynahFan said:
McConnell: Corporations should stay out of politics!
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Republicans telling corporations, after decades of being chummy with them, to mind their own business?

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LynahFan said:
Well, there is moving your headquarters, and then there is moving your company. Delta has 33k employees in GA. If you think all of them would move to *Minneapolis*, well, I guess you've never met southerners... Now, a symbolic gesture of moving your 200-person corporate office (a la Boeing's "move" to Chicago or Toyota NA's move from Torrance, CA to Irvine(?), TX) is doable. But I'm not sure what would be in it for Delta - their employees would just be peeved that the C-suite types moved on to a greener pasture while leaving them behind to deal with NJC (new Jim Crow).
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No company would ever move HQ once they hit a certain size. It would decapitate them.

3M did that and threatened to move to Texas. Fast forward to a couple years ago. They sold the Austin campus.

no company that has 10,000+ employees would ever pick up and move. It doesn't matter if it's from a hellhole to Valhalla. You aren't going to convince 10,000 families to move. And it would eviscerate the housing market on both ends. Even moving 5,000 families would be insane.

maybe remote work changes the calculation, but no way. Even if you left people behind, you'd never get the sweetheart deals unless the GOP ran the state.
 
ScoobyDoo said:
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/546704-rand-paul-calls-for-republicans-to-boycott-coca-cola

Rand Paul saying BOYCOTT COCA-COLA.

For an anti-cancel-culture party they sure do run to the cancel-culture on things.
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You know what? This battle of culture wars is the war of attrition we needed. The GOP can rig the votes all they want. But they don't control the spending power of the United States, much less the rest of the world. Eventually these companies are going to stop giving to the GOP as the significantly larger democratic base says fuck this we don't need to buy your product.
 
I doubt it. A lot of these companies pay little to no corporate tax because of the GOP they don't give a crap what the average person thinks. Even the ones who fled after the Insurrection will be back supporting GOPers by the Midterms. This is all BS political theater.

Coke and Delta will always donate to those that help their bottom line.
 
dxmnkd316 said:
No company would ever move HQ once they hit a certain size. It would decapitate them.

3M did that and threatened to move to Texas. Fast forward to a couple years ago. They sold the Austin campus.

no company that has 10,000+ employees would ever pick up and move. It doesn't matter if it's from a hellhole to Valhalla. You aren't going to convince 10,000 families to move. And it would eviscerate the housing market on both ends. Even moving 5,000 families would be insane.

maybe remote work changes the calculation, but no way. Even if you left people behind, you'd never get the sweetheart deals unless the GOP ran the state.
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GE big enough?
 
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