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by: PeoriaDotCom Active Indicator LED Icon 7 Site Admin  OP 
~ 7 years ago   May 3, '16 4:11pm  
Cat jobs moving to Arizona...
 
Front page of Journal Star online is about Cat's new mining division moving to Arizona, and hundreds of jobs from around the company ( including Peoria ) will be moving there.
 
Does anyone have inside info as to how many jobs might be leaving Peoria specifically with this move?
 
Full article:
www.pjstar.com/busin ess/20160503/some-pe oria-jobs-to-move-as -caterpillar-bu
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RambleOn Active Indicator LED Icon 16
~ 7 years ago   May 3, '16 5:31pm  
So far, they are not saying. www.1470wmbd.com/cat -locate-offices-tucs on/
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RambleOn Active Indicator LED Icon 16
~ 7 years ago   May 3, '16 6:15pm  
Heard on the news that CAT is placing part of the reason for relocating workers from Illinois is the extreme expense of Worker's Compensation. Not the first time we have heard that the high cost of Worker's Comp insurance is driving employers away from Illinois.
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billybob Active Indicator LED Icon 12
~ 7 years ago   May 3, '16 6:17pm  
I have not heard a figure on the jobs in Peoria that will be lost. I t did hear from someone in Decatur that if 600 jobs are being move to AZ. than about half of them will probably be from Peoria as the numbers don't add up to 600 with the jobs from Decatur and WI that also would probably be moved.
 
Quite interesting that all the past speculation of jobs going to TX, NC or GA that AZ really was never on the radar screen except that some of their mining customers are located in Southern AZ. A good article on this was just posted on www.tucson.com
 
tucson.com/business/ tucson/caterpillar-i nc-bringing-regional -hq-to-downtown
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AV8R Active Indicator LED Icon 16
~ 7 years ago   May 3, '16 8:12pm  
Can you blame them? What sane person/business wants to stay in this state with the state government bent on destroying anything good that's left?
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shifty Active Indicator LED Icon 15
~ 7 years ago   May 3, '16 9:09pm  
I put a lot less of the intent of this move on IL politics, rather than the stated goal of getting the engineers closer to the products they build, and the better appeal of a city like Tucson. Cat has always had trouble recruiting college grads to sleepy Peoria. All engineers (specifically those that work on certain mining products) need more product exposure.
Not to mention the rare opportunity to start fresh with an entirely new central facility, rather than patching up/remodeling Decatur and several other older facilities.
As others have stated, I think there is a decent chance that this may change the trajectory of their HQ plan. If they have good success getting existing employees to move to AZ and the recruiting is significantly better, they may have no choice but to locate the HQ nearby as well...
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billybob Active Indicator LED Icon 12
~ 7 years ago   May 3, '16 10:45pm  
Tucson is also home to University of Arixona that turns out large graduating classes. Part of the growth in Arizona has been due to college graduates that stayed in Arizona after they graduated from college even if they were fromArizona or not. That has not been the case in Illinois for a very long time.
 
About 20 -25 years ago there was a front page article in Wall Street Journal about engineers and job offers and amenities in cities where they had job offers. It specifically cited that CAT was running into headwinds in recruiting engineers because so many also had job offers from Texas Instruments in Dallas. So it became a choice of Peoria vs. Dallas.
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tntrecycling Active Indicator LED Icon 16
~ 7 years ago   May 3, '16 11:28pm  
Is this a way to save money so they can build down town Peoria.
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meanjarhead Active Indicator LED Icon 12
~ 7 years ago   May 4, '16 12:20am  
So when is CAT going to start the demo on the buildings downtown that they need to tear down for the new temple to CAT?
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Mahkno Active Indicator LED Icon 17
~ 7 years ago   May 4, '16 5:56am  
they may have no choice but to locate the HQ nearby as well...

@shifty :
 
Downtown Peoria ... AZ lol
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Mahkno Active Indicator LED Icon 17
~ 7 years ago   May 4, '16 6:04am  
Relocating, consolidating, and repositioning, creates an option to drop a lemon.
 
Nothing good has come from the Bucyrus purchase.... just a whole lot pain.
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Mormech Active Indicator LED Icon  New Member
~ 7 years ago   May 4, '16 8:21am  
So it became a choice of Peoria vs. Dallas.

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Yeah...this is one of the reasons that I still think the HQ decision could be up in the air again if Doug retires (which I think he's due to do in another year or so) and construction in Peoria hasn't started yet. I've heard that some of the VPs favored relocating HQ to a larger city like Milwaukee, and I'd think that could still happen if Doug's successor leans that way. There's some considerable downsides to having a Peoria HQ.
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tntrecycling Active Indicator LED Icon 16
~ 7 years ago   May 4, '16 8:59am  
Did they have the plans wrong. Peoria Az. instead of Peoria Il. Tired of paying taxes for Illinois and receiving nothing in return.
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