Life on the Rails

[Savonarola]

Knorr-Bremse has a long history of taking over other companies, integrating them and then laying off people by moving production to low cost countries.

Good to know, we are getting an office in Pune, India (but most rail signaling companies have an office in India, Alstom's is in Bangalore.  I forget where GE's was.)

I am skeptical about our leadership's story that this was planned as part of Alstom; since a lot of the people laid off were document control and there's nothing Alstom loved more than processes and documentation.  The cuts make a lot more sense from the Knorr-Bremse Signaling vision, which is supposed to be less process heavy.