From August 17 through the end of the year, Big Dog Motorcycles will stop production at its Wichita, Kan., plant for a total of seven weeks. The stoppage began immediately and will run for four weeks, followed by intermittent closures through December.
The company adds that no layoffs were announced, but all company staff has received a temporary 20 percent pay cut. Workers affected by the production stops will be eligible for unemployment benefits.
Dealernews received the following release from Paul Hansen, Big Dog’s marketing director…Â Details
For decades, the product development center at Harley-Davidson Inc. has been a place where iconic motorcycles are created – sometimes from a simple sketch – and come to life after thousands of hours of refinement.
Housed in a steel-and-glass building tucked behind the company’s manufacturing plant in Wauwatosa, the center is named after Willie G. Davidson, grandson of one of the company’s founders and head of the Harley design team.
Yet despite its prestige, the center has seen dozens of job cuts as …Â Details
Last Friday evening August 14, I was informed by an unofficial source that “Big Dog Motorcycles was stopping production for the rest of the month of August 2009. That for the remainder of the year there will be temporary production furloughs. That a 20% pay reduction across the board was applied to all employees left after the layoffs“.
At my request, Paul Hansen, Marketing Director of Big Dog Motorcycles, sent me the following statement:
“Cyril. Thank you again for the opportunity to comment on the information you received regarding the recent announcement at Big Dog Motorcycles. As you know, the challenging economy continues to … Details