The CEO-in-waiting of the defense contractor who declined to issue WARN Act layoff notices on the urging of the Obama administration — sequestration-related notices mandated by law that would have gone out just before the election — has resigned, citing an affair.
Christopher E. Kubasik, 51, today resigned from his role as vice chairman, president and chief operating officer (COO), effective immediately, Lockheed Martin announced. Kubasik was set to become CEO in January.
He “resigned after an ethics investigation confirmed that he had a close personal relationship with a subordinate employee. His actions violated the company’s Code of Ethics and Business Conduct, but did not affect the company’s operational or financial performance,” the defense giant said in a statement.
On Oct. 1, Kubasik and Bob Stevens, current chairman and CEO, sent a controversial memo to employees bowing to the administration’s advice to not warn employees of impending sequestration layoffs.
With the 60 days’ notice mandated by the WARN Act, the notices would have gone out at the beginning of November.
“We have been working closely with the government to understand our obligations under the WARN Act and to ensure our employees are provided fair treatment and appropriate notice, if their jobs are impacted by sequestration,” Kubasik and Stevens wrote. “After careful review of the additional guidance provided by the Office of Management and Budget and the Department of Defense, we will not issue sequestration-related WARN notices this year. …If sequestration were to happen, we are compelled to comply with the law and will do so as respectfully and as ably as we can.”
House Armed Services Committee Chairman Buck McKeon (R-Calif.) lashed out at Lockheed for “bowing” to the administration.
“It appears companies will bow to the threat implicit in last week’s OMB guidance; withhold notices today or the government might not cover your court costs down the road,” McKeon said on the day the memo went out. “Let me be clear, neither the OMB guidance nor the Lockheed decision will protect a single defense industry job if sequestration occurs in January.”
Other defense contractors were more guarded than Lockheed in their reactions to the guidance, which the OMB said was provided to “minimize the potential for waste and disruption associated with the issuance of unwarranted layoff notices.”
“General Dynamics has not determined whether we will issue WARN notices to employees as a result of sequestration, because the Defense Department has not informed us of how our programs will be impacted,” Rob Doolittle, staff vice president for communications, told PJM after the Lockheed announcement.
Lockheed Martin immediately elected Marillyn A. Hewson, 58, president of the Electronic Systems business area, to fill Kubasik’s current spot as president and COO and to become CEO in January.
The sequestration, which goes into effect Jan. 2 without “fiscal cliff” action in the lame-duck session, puts more than 2 million jobs at risk.
Virginia, Florida, and Pennsylvania — all swing states won by President Obama — would take the hardest hit with more than 365,000 job losses combined, according to a George Mason University & Chmura Economics and Analytics report.
Affair. Just like Petraeus. Huh. Is anybody keeping track of the coincidences?
Who knows? Maybe it’s the same affair.
With whom? Jesse Jackson Jr’s girlfriend?
dude, best thing I’ve read all day !!
I did not know that the General was Gay!
I’m waiting for Holder to resign because of an affair. Who’s running the FBI? Aren’t they having an affair? Maybe Hillary! will be caught in a lesbian affair, having to resign because of violating “ethics”. . . probably with Napolitano or Sebelius, prompting more resignations. Salazar at Interior must be having an affair under that cowboy hat. Maybe, just maybe, the entire cabinet had one mad orgy or “key party” swap, and now it’s all coming unglued.
This isn’t coincidence. This is the result of the most “ethical” administration in history sloughing off the infidels. Or was it the most “ethical” House under Pelosi? Criminy, I can’t keep track of all of these “most ethical” government entities. It’s like all of the religious deities rolled into one!!!
Petraeus, a honey trap, and the Chicago Way
http://illinoispaytoplay.com/2012/11/10/petraeus-a-honey-trap-and-the-chicago-way/
Hillary is a “butch,” not a “fem.” Napolitano is also a “butch,” or bulld***. Cross her off the list. Huma is Hillary’s type.
Come on there is no coincidence!Anyway this the sign that the rotten system is starting to collapse.Do nothing let, it go with a big thump!
OK, thought it was just me noticing the coincidental infidelity going on with key players in a couple of these “non-scandals”. I wonder if Eric Holder has been unfaithful and will resign to deal with his “personal” issues? How convenient.
The thing of it is this – it is not as if the suddenly unfaithful can’t still sing like birdies. However, the arm twisting, before the Radical-in-Chief secured a second term, surely was MASSIVE.
And revolutionaries do what they do best, however, there are too many dead bodies hidden in this regime, and that can’t be covered up forever. They will be outed.
http://adinakutnicki.com/2012/10/07/when-authentic-revolutionaries-hold-the-reins-of-american-power-centers-via-the-most-radical-regime-in-u-s-history-commentary-by-adina-kutnicki/
Does anyone want to bet, whether or not The One will serve out his full term, and not be thrown out via impeachment down the line?
That will never happen. I may be wrong and probably am but the Senate will have a lot to say about that.
It is the House of Representatives that impeaches and I don’t think they’d have trouble doing it. But once Obama is impeached and removed from Office, it is the Senate that has to enforce the impeachment and remove Obama from the White House and that is where it could become ugly because, if they ignore the Constitution and the law, which we all KNOW the Left is in the habit of doing regularly, they may refuse to do their job (gee, have they ever done that?–wait, no Senate budget in 4 years, yeah they’ve done that)and I’m not sure the procedure if that happens.
“I’m not sure the procedure if that happens.”
Hopefully torches, pitchforks, shotguns, AR-15s, and whatever else the citizenry can muster, preferably with the support of the military, to defend the Constitution.
Any takers on my bet that our Muslim-in-Chief will take his oath on the Koran?
@Adina: I wish no one ill or evil as a matter of principle but I foresee–and anyone should since this is merely numbers–a time when there will be no more credit. They won’t last long after they stop paying welfare. Argentina, December 2001 comes to mind but a Piazzale Loreto may be in their future. Only God knows.
Although it does reek of Chigao machine politics, it is also yet another sign of the decline of America, or at least, of the America Empire. iow, you don’t cooperate with others, not even your own bureaucrats. You don’t even compromise on relatively minor issues – every issue is significant if your want to control other people and control outcomes. iow, You buy them off or you use extortion and blackmail to keep them in line. (If they don’t have a deep dark secret that can be used to control them, you simply don’t hire them to begin with.)
That’s politics in America, folks. The Mob didn’t go away. They bought suits and took over the establishment.
The country is run by a loons and criminels!There are the ones with the enablers who help them to stay in power who are morally,intellectually bankrupt.They are the ones who financially bankrupted the country.The end is near,money is drying out.
The very first thought that rushed in my head, when I saw that Petraeus was resigning over an affair, suddenly and only three days after the election, was that it wasn’t true.
Not that the affair wasn’t true, but that it wasn’t the reason he was resigning. Something is not right.
This is David Axelrod’s M.O. He has successfully done this kind of thing to many of Obama’s past foes. It’s time to start fighting fire with fire, I’m sick and tired of watching the Repubs and Conserves playing fair, Hell, they just lost the White House and the Senate to the dirtiest campaign in US history, all because they refused to get down in the mud with these guys. It’s time to go off-road and get some mud on the tires.
But we CAN’T fight fire with fire! We’ll alienate the independent vote!
Independents only mind if Republicans run a dirty campaign; its ok for Democrats.
We won the independent vote this time around, but we lost the election. I do not believe the independents are as important as we have thought they were.
I am an ‘Independent’, which to me means that I think for myself and take each candidate/issue on its own merits. If you do the ‘right thing’, you cannot possibly lose me. Right now, the ‘right thing’ is to fight fire with fire – I would LOVE to see some backbone, some spunk coming out of the Republican party – and I would not blame the Republican party at all if they get down in the trenches and get dirty right now – we are fighting for our very existance now. Personally, I would not ever be the one to throw the first stone but I will be darned if I will just lay down and take it while people stomp on me either. I do not think I am unusual as far as Independents go – worth a shot to find out, no?
But who will do it?Just look what happened with Obamacare,where the judge decided to rewrite the statute so it could pass.The system is too corrupt.The good news is that the money that greases it,buys influence,corrupts, is trickling down.The system is just about to collapse financially.No more money,no more bribes!Quite simple!The debt will make it collapse.
Exactly how Obama was elected to the Senate in the first place – sealed court records magically opened up revealing an affair by his opponent.
Alot of that going around. Just like the flu, eh?
Where is the Praetorians to “help” fall on your sword?
Resigning because of an affair is starting to be like dying of a brain hemorage in the Soviet Union. Everybody knew it was a 9mm brain hemorage that ocurred in the basement of Lubyanka, but it sounded good.
The “Ethics Investigation” has become the modern day Spanish Inquisition. This same board of ethics that dropped the hammer on Kubasik has seen many a decent, hard working LM employee sitting before an HR/management/ethics officer tribunal for criticizing the policies our dear coward-in-chief within earshot of a protected minority.
You are absolutely correct. LM, like other defense giants, has become enslaved to rampant political correctness, “inclusiveness” and an homage to a corrupt star chamber court system working under the guise of “ethics.” Many a career has been consumed by the mere whisper of impropriety either real or imagined by one of the “protected” classes. The Human Relations department has been labeled by the rank and file with the slogan: “Were not happy until you’re not happy.”
Actually, KGB had a pistol designed for that purpose;
Small bore, low power, no noise, no mess, just an
entry wound in the back of the head, Chicago style.
Yeah, I think it was/is a Makarov in 5.45 loaded as a subsonic round. I have a Walther P-22 and a box of .22 subsonics should I ever have a need for such a thing.
Though I think the “quiet” weapons were more for field work. A silencer is really quiet, though not silent, but has the disadvantage of being much harder to conceal. If you’ll recall those old spy and detective movies with the hit man dramatically screwing the silencer on the weapon; that’s realistic because they’d be carried separately and screw on, not an instant thing, when needed.
If you have anything like good assembly skills, e.g., decent model builder as a kid, you can make a very effective if a bit bulky silencer in an evening or two.
The old KGB silenced pistol was inherited from their predecessors, the NKVD. It was a 7.62mm Nagant Model 1895 “gas-seal” double-action revolver, the standard Red Army officer’s sidearm, with a special, fully-suppressed barrel. (It was built much like that of the WW2 OSS High Standard HD Military .22 automatic, or the Guide Lamp-built suppressed M3 .45 SMG.) It also had a shortened butt for concealment purposes.
The difference with most “suppressed” pistols was that the Nagant revolver, as most weapons buffs know, has that unusual forward-moving cylinder arrangement that actually inserts the mouth of the cartridge case into the leade’ of the barrel, to create a gas seal. Which means that when it fires, there is no escape of gas from the cylinder/barrel joint.
The 1960s-era Czech ZKR 551 target revolver in .38 Special Mid-Range Wadcutter used a similar arrangement; in fact, the .38 MRW is the only .38 Special load that will work in the 551, as the cylinder is too short to allow rotation with a round that has any bullet protrusion ahead of the case mouth at all. (IIRC, one of the Italian Mateba revolvers used a similar arrangement, except in .357 Magnum.)
The “NKVD Nagant” was, as far as I know, the only genuinely silenced repeating handgun ever made, anywhere. Unlike the SEAL MK22 “Hush Puppy” 9mm S&W auto (forerunner of the Model 59), that had a slide lock to hold the slide shut (thus making it a manually-operated repeater in suppressed mode), the Nagant operated entirely normally; just pull the trigger for each shot.
And since its muzzle velocity was subsonic (950 feet-per-second or so), the only sound made by its firing was the “clack” of the hammer falling. It wouldn’t win any prizes for muzzle energy or “stopping power”, but in its intended role, in which a single shot or at most two or three would be fired at very close range into a vital spot, this isn’t really an issue. And it certainly packed more punch than a .22.
Considering the number of Nagants floating around today (I used to own one, and quite a nice little revolver it was), I’d be surprised if this “modification” didn’t show up in somebody or others’ bag of tricks.
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So that’s why the economy is in the tank — everyone is too busy having affairs to get any work done.
Yes,the vice factor.In fct Obama and his gang of crooks from Chicago are emulating Al Caponewho knew quite a lot about vice andhuman nature.They want booze,I give them booze,they want drug,I give them drug etc etc.This will go on as long as the money come in.The money is now starting to dry up!
At least they aren’t dying of Polonium 210 poisoning (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_of_Alexander_Litvinenko) – although that could still happen if the Bamster uses a little of that “more flexibility” with Vlad Putin.
I think its a new type of malady. Its called Bengigateitis or a sudden rash of retirements after the Benghazi fiasco. Or another way to get rid of “testifiers”–push them out and away from Washington.
They had affairs with severed horse-heads?
Ever since the polls started closing and indicating that we’re having that chameleon Obama for another four years, the news has been very, very depressing.
The worst news, of course, was that Obama had won the Electoral Vote, then the headlines started to indicate ‘coincidental?’ fallout…..Petraeus’ resignation, WARN Notices….no doubt there’s more coming, all will be directly related, but vigorously denied. Sickening.
It strains credibility that Petraeus’ outstanding several-decades-long career nourished by his overall savvy and widest possible experience would have ….”bad judgement”…. over sex.
There will be more negative headlines as more time passes. Our current Government has now no credibility after our North African Muslim troubles culminating in the tragic Benghazi affaire. We’re entering a National disaster-time, face that reality, folks.
And, the denials will become more inventive and less plausible as time goes on.
It is the state of decrepitude the country is in!The end is near!
I read that the Hildabeast is going to leave after the coronation. Maybe she and Huma will come out of the closet and stroll of into the sunset together.
And then Weiner’s free to tweet to his wiener’s content.
Government contracting needs to be shaken up and distributed around the country more anyway. The over-concentration of high-paying contracting jobs in the DC area is directly responsible for turning Virginia from a solid red state into a purple state. Sequestration is not the right answer, but finding a way to break up and radically redistribute many of those across the country needs to be done. Maintaining the status quo will only ensure that Virginia is pulled more toward becoming a blue state.
I hope Lockheed Martin never makes a successful product again. Won’t get my wish, but I rarely do.
Right. Because we al know that the eeeevil corporations must be destroyed, even if it means killing what‘s left if the country’s decent paying jobs and conservative leaning, educated workforce.
The F-22 has been plagued by oxegen system problems (systems people have known how to build for 70 years). The F-35 is a complete debacle. The Chinese will have their knockoffs in the air operationally before we do, if ever.
Well, if having an affair is reason for resigning then I suspect that everyone should be gone by about 6:00 pm come Monday.
I hope all the “unfaithful” don’t suddenly get Breitbart-type heart problems.
Breitbart really did have heart problems. That’s not to rule out that he was poisoned, but merely to state he wasn’t healthy in the months leading up to his collapse. He was being treated for heart problems long before collapsing.
Which is the perfect cover for a slick high tech assassination….coming directly from a local bar he frequented (regular hangout, with confusion and access)
Hmm..perhaps all public figures should take out a little ‘Death Insurance’:
Keep their physical exams up to date and authorize an exhaustive autopsy
if they die under suspicious circumstances.
“He “resigned after an ethics investigation confirmed that he had a close personal relationship with a subordinate employee. ”
Too bad he wasn’t President he could have kept his job and become a cult hero.
Ahhh. The Lewinsky gambit.
Republicans/conservatives can’t be heard to complain…after all, if Clinton was to be impeached over an affair, then it MUST be an acceptable reason to resign in shame.
A friend of mine had a hunting farm in the deep south. On his waterways, the alligators would swim in and attack the game. It was illegal to shoot them, they were protected. Funny though, many of them wound up with bullets in their heads.
Alligator suicides, I was told.
Sorta like alligator tears.
They say things happen in threes. So far, we have two guys caught messin’ around.
So…..who’s number three?
My bet’s on Biden.
I do not think Biden is up to it.
Biden is safe. He’s The One’s “health insurance policy”.
As in,
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I’ll take Biden any day. He’s too inept to do actual harm.
Maybe. But when he starts having animated conversations about the relationship of infinity to the inside of his trousers- with the coatrack in his office, please keep him away from the “football”.
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Fine, let him appoint Hillary as VP and then she can declare him incompetent to exercise the duties of the office of President and serve out the term as Acting President. At worst, the Clintons want to rule us, not destroy us, so Hillary would be a vast improvement over Obama.
Affairs, affairs.
Where is Shakespeare when you need him ?
I’m sure Hillary is reading him.
Specifically Macbeth.
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eon
This is a new twist on the ‘resign to spend more time with the family”.
The U.S. Attorney under the Traitor-in-chief, will not indict these clowns, but the States Attorney’s General in the affected States, need to go after these scumbags, in order to let them know they can’t break the law, just because some other scumbag politician said they could! the Betrayal of the employees is covered under the law. If the Federal Govt. won’t go after them, then the STates better start acting like they are the adults or they will lose all credibility, along with the Federal Govt.
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God Bless America!
My sincere thanks for to those who voted and participated in the reelection of Benghai Barack.Now we can sit back and enjoy for four more years!Four more year of delight!Congratulations to the scripwriter or scriptwriters.But will it really last four more years?Will the country collapse financially,before? Just stay tune!
After all the years wasted taking the “required” ethics training under their “leadership”, looks like they forgot to take the classes themselves. Too funny. Jerks! Glad I’m retired and no longer “need” training to be ethical. Actually, I never did need it.
WARN Act does not apply in the multitude of situations that businesses and the media have tried to make it apply. It applies strictly to business-initiated plant closings and moves. It DOES NOT apply to simple layoffs. Suits based on a company’s failure to execute WARN Act notices timely will fail. All this has been a red herring. Industry tried to scare their employees and the Chicago knee-cappers got wind of it. All of those claiming that WARN Act applies to program layoffs are blowing smoke up everyone’s skirts.
Wrong. It does apply to plant closings but also to “mass layoffs” for employers with more than 100 employees, or at least according to the Department of Labor’s own website. There was no definition on this website of what constitutes “mass layoffs”; it may (or may not) be defined in the law, but it is clear that the administration did tell a number of defense contractors that the government would help the employers with fines, if they would NOT act on the WARN requirements immediately before the election, if actions were subsequently brought against the employers for failing to comply.
Here’s what the DOL factsheet says about WARN notice triggers:
A covered employer must give notice if there is to be a mass layoff which does not result from a plant closing, but which will result in an employment loss at the employment site during any 30-day period for 500 or more employees, or for 50-499 employees if they make up at least 33% of the employer’s active workforce.
So, yes, it applies to layoffs, and not just plant closings.
There seems to be a lot of that going around this week.
I wonder what they had on Justice Roberts?
Gay?
Rumor during his Senate hearing was he was gay.
The FBI who have stumbled into Petraeus’s affairs might have stumbled there too. J Edgar is quite proud.
‘wonder what they had on justice roberts’?
probably threatened his family. that always works. could just be he was on board all along. lawyers/judges aren’t the most reliable or honorable folks around. look what a mess they have made of the law. been to the honest dealings around divorce court lately? its like the temple of feminist/woman worship. criminal court isn’t much better, if at all. would be interested in exactly what he had on the left’s most obvious feminist, hitlery. i mean she’s become his biach, for sure. i loved the way she ‘manned up’ and assumed responsibility, and then both off to other countries to hide, her and the incompetent kenyan . let time kill it. it sort of reminds one of the way they reacted to fast & furious.
1. get everybody involved out of country.
2. deny deny deny
3. old media – cover cover cover their retreat – too easy w/ obi-worshippers
4. delay delay delay – make it die using time as a buffer
4. destroy/erase all communications involved
5. make sure nobody is allowed to testify – whatever it takes
6. if necessary (last resort) – claim executive privilege (a.g. is complicit)
i’ve heard and seen a LOT of talk around and on the net about secession. our forefathers left it out there for us, as a duty when things get too bad, like now. it may be the only way to rid ouselves of these parasites. somebody remarked that they wouldn’t be able to stop it this time. we far out gun the left, unless they bring in a red dawn or something similar. (hmmm? russia, iran??, more flexibility??) of course, we still have most of our military on our side, and tens of millions of gun-trained vets/civilians very tired of this chit. the red-blue map i last saw made for pretty clear dividing lines.
however, we would immediately have to put up a good fence and good immigration laws to keep them out, once the world gets a load of how they roll downhill into starvation w/o other people’s $$$$.
i always thought any illicit affair gave dems., their cohorts, collaborators more “cred” within?, validation??, confused now.
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