Georgia Pacific is a Lousy Corporate Citizen

Is Georgia Pacific a Good Corporate Citizen?

Georgia Pacific in Wheatfield, Indiana is a lousy corporate citizen. As I understand it, that doesn’t hold true for much of the Georgia Pacific Corporation, but the plant in Wheatfield that produces gypsum wallboard has decided to go against their company policy. They take from the community in the form of labor, and treat the citizens of Wheatfield who work at the plant like trash.

A good corporate citizen would, once employees vote to have a union, honestly bargain in good faith with the union to reach an agreement that both the employees and the company are willing to live by.

But no, Georgia Pacific in Wheatfield has decided instead to cut wages and benefits for their workers and lollygag and delay with the negotiations.

You know what?—If they think that the company as a whole doesn’t have anything to lose by this un-American activity, they’re sadly mistaken.

Those hotshots from Georgia Pacific down in Georgia better come to the realization that their whole company will be harmed by allowing this renegade company in Wheatfield to act this way.

I made my wife burn six rolls of toilet paper that had Georgia Pacific printed on the wrapper. She has instructions not to buy anything, and I mean anything produced by Georgia Pacific. Now I don’t know if Georgia Pacific has a toilet paper monopoly, but if they do, then I’ll be saving the classified sections of the newspaper (no color) in the future.

The CEO of Georgia Pacific better get off his fat ass and bring this Wheatfield management under control. Whoever you are, will this be your legacy? Poor Corporate Citizen?

What’s the guys name, anyway?

If guys like John McCain would support the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA), lousy rotten companies like Georgia Pacific in Wheatfield, Indiana wouldn't be so eager to be un-American by refusing to bargain. The contract would be arbitrated.