Pennsylvania town previously screwed by Harley-Davidson offers advice to Kansas City

The third act of Harley-Davidson’s yearlong effort to muscle unions at manufacturing plants is upon us.

In an almost comically transparent cycle, the hog builder bullied employees at its York, Pennsylvania, plant into wage and staff cuts late last year by claiming it would move jobs to Kansas City. Then, earlier this year, Harley got employees in Wisconsin — the company’s home state — to give in to corporate demands, also with KC’s plant waiting to Hoover-up jobs.

Now it’s our own 800 Harley workers’ turn to crumble before management and simply try to save as many jobs as possible. If they don’t, plant operations could move to, of all places, York.