Wise/ABB

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Originally posted by MarianLibrarian:
That sounds to me like they are first going to hire people who already work for Wise, and then hire from outside if there are positions available.

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Originally posted by Mr. Hooberbloob:
All of the controls from Unit 1 to 5 at Colbert are ABB. Not aware of them attempting to take over TVA's maintenance.

I have heard that SCA is doing away with contract maintenance.

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Originally posted by Mr. Hooberbloob:
Actually Kindred, TVA is studying contracting out maintenance and operations. Don't know if anything will come of it. This is something they are not advertising.

The turbine on Unit 5 is a Parsons and the generator is Westinghouse. I am intimately familiar with them. You're right about 1-4 turbines and generators being GE. The boilers are built by Bab****s and Wilcox.

The distributed control system is what ABB builds for us. It's the brain of the unit that controls the turbine and the boiler as well as all the peripheral equipment.

That has been an on-going 'investigation' with TVA on a serious note for over a year now, but they already do that anyway, so it would make little difference.

I am pretty familiar with the Units at Colbert too. I remeber when U-5 rebuilt to change the polarity of it in 82 which was a good move. I also now remember Parson's. I will have to check out about the Boiler being built by Babc0ck and Wilcox though, (I am very familiar with their company)because I don't remember that happening, but I am not saying you aren't correct on it, just saying that part isn't computing in my memory this early in the morning.

ABB bought out Combustion Engineers which put a lot of people OUT of work especially in the Chattanooga area, they hired much less experience, and their work then became shoddy but they SAVED a little money.

ABB does play a very heavy role in TVA already, which, in my opinion isn't a good thing. The role I can see them playing has absolutely nothing to do with the "brains" of the controls of the Turbine, which is NOT to say that they don't control that too. My MAIN concern is they are a Swiss Company and we have what we need right here in this area and in TN to do what they are "wanting" to do, but we can do it cheaper.

But it still is dealing with TVA, and what I wanted to know was if anyone knew if ABB and Wise was also including TMC in their headcount as well as gobbling them up with ABB in the drivers seat???

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Originally posted by Confederate Pride:
They could be targeting potential customers.

The da-mn yankees that are invading the south have the impression that we are all idiots. WHY? You don't take offence to a "red neck" or a "hillbilly joke" and you allow black comedians and Hollywood to portray us as though we are idiots. What is the world supposed to think?

Until we you start raising as much hell as a minorities about being politically correct this nonsense will continue.

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Originally posted by Kindred_Spirit:
I didn't mean to get that far off topic.

I just really wanted to know if WISE also includes TMC in their counts of employment and change for ABB.

No one has been able to answer that one yet.

Thanks Mr. Hooberbloob for the info

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Originally posted by Kindred_Spirit:
You are correct, yep, I was wrong on that, it is a B&W Boiler/

But the Turbine is Parsons, with Rolls-Royce LP's and Westinghouse Generators.

But that is just U-5

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That sounds to me like they are first going to hire people who already work for Wise, and then hire from outside if there are positions available.

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Originally posted by EvilGenius:

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That sounds to me like they are first going to hire people who already work for Wise, and then hire from outside if there are positions available.

Exactly, you lay off and hire back the same people except for the ones they will identify as trouble makers and they lose any seniority and benefits related to it. They will probably make significantly less, have less benefits, and gets rid of vacation time stuff like that. Your basic union busting business decision. I'd hate to be driving through that picket line November 1st out there, could get ugly this time.