What Harley workers asked

It's hard to think of all the questions 2,500 people worried for their jobs might have after getting the news Harley employees did last Monday.

The company told workers it is studying all options to get its costs under control -- including possibly moving production out of York County.

So we asked a few workers what they would ask the company if they could, and then we asked the company. Below are the questions, and a cumulative response from Harley corporate communications.

QUESTIONS
If (Harley-Davidson) would move out of the area, would I as an employee get the chance to move with the company? Also, what would we have to do to get Harley to stay in York County?
--Kevin Viands, 21-year employee

Considering the skilled workers locally, why would Harley think it can move somewhere else and make the same quality motorcycle, and save money, with an unknown workforce there?
-- Scott Schoenenberger, 9-year employee

ANSWER
We're working with our union partners on the study of various options for how best to restructure the work we do at York and we want to allow the evaluation process to do its work.
So without getting into specifics or speculating about possible outcomes, what I can tell you is that we will be carefully considering many factors in our assessment, and we anticipate the study will determine the answers to many of your questions.
-- Bob Klein, Harley corporate communications.