Centralized Planning - Because it worked out so well for the Soviet Union
I swear I read this in a novel somewhere............A big thick novel by a female author.......................
My liberal cousin works in a union shop that actually got part of this Boeing contract and he swears up and down that Boeing is trying to crush the union.
And if Boeing refuses to play by the NLRB rules and goes ahead with their SC plans, what happens?
Boeing should tell them they will just move to China instead of dealing with the union/NLRB thugs.
Congress needs to defund this outfit and pass a law negating their decision in this case and for ever.
Directive 10-289
“In the name of the general welfare,” read Wesley Mouch, “to protect the people’s security, to achieve full equality and total stability, it is decreed for the duration of the national emergency that—
“Point One. All workers, wage earners and employees of any kind whatsoever shall henceforth be attached to their jobs and shall not leave nor be dismissed nor change employment, under penalty of a term in jail. The penalty shall be determined by the Unification Board, such Board to be appointed by the Bureau of Economic Planning and National Resources. All persons reaching the age of twenty-one shall report to the Unification Board, which shall assign them to where, in its opinion, their services will best serve the interests of the nation.
“Point Two. All industrial, commercial, manufacturing and business establishments of any nature whatsoever shall henceforth remain in operation, and the owners of such establishments shall not quit nor leave nor retire, nor close, sell or transfer their business, under penalty of the nationalization of their establishment and of any and all of their property.
“Point Three. All patents and copyrights, pertaining to any devices, inventions, formulas, processes and works of any nature whatsoever, shall be turned over to the nation as a patriotic emergency gift by means of Gift Certificates to be signed voluntarily by the owners of all such patents and copyrights. The Unification Board shall then license the use of such patents and copyrights to all applicants, equally and without discrimination, for the purpose of eliminating monopolistic practices, discarding obsolete products and making the best available to the whole nation. No trademarks, brand names or copyrighted titles shall be used. Every formerly patented product shall be known by a new name and sold by all manufacturers under the same name, such name to be selected by the Unification Board. All private trademarks and brand names are hereby abolished.
“Point Four. No new devices, inventions, products, or goods of any nature whatsoever, not now on the market, shall be produced, invented, manufactured or sold after the date of this directive. The Office of Patents and Copyrights is hereby suspended.
“Point Five. Every establishment, concern, corporation or person engaged in production of any nature whatsoever shall henceforth produce the same amount of goods per year as it, they or he produced during the Basic Year, no more and no less. The year to be known as the Basic or Yardstick Year is to be the year ending on the date of this directive. Over or under production shall be fined, such fines to be determined by the Unification Board.
“Point Six. Every person of any age, sex, class or income, shall henceforth spend the same amount of money on the purchase of goods per year as he or she spent during the Basic Year, no more and no less. Over or under purchasing shall be fined, such fines to be determined by the Unification Board.
“Point Seven. All wages, prices, salaries, dividends, profits, interest rates and forms of income of any nature whatsoever, shall be frozen at their present figures, as of the date of this directive.
“Point Eight. All cases arising from and rules not specifically provided for in this directive, shall be settled and determined by the Unification Board, whose decisions will be final.”
The above directive (at this point in time) is fictional, from the book Atlas Shrugged. If you want to be shocked, read Atlas Shrugged, and see how a book written in the late 50’s has so accurately predicted where we would be headed here in the 2000’s.
What makes Boeing Boeing is decades of knowledge about how to make great airplanes. It’s not knowledge about how to check a pneumatic grinder out of the tool crib, and it’s certainly not knowledge about how to go on strike.
If you dig into their philosophy you will find that they believe unions should have representation on ALL corporate boards. I think that is what they are really angling for here.
“Our own government has become our enemy.” — Sheriff Paul Babeu.
And they said Atlas Shrugged would never happen! Wake up America take your country back!
There are no "different" government agencies. There are no differences between levels of government.
They are all incorporated at the federal level.
They are all, therefore, merely various "business units" of the federal corporation.
Federal, State, County, City. Agency X, Agency Y, Agency Z.
Mere labels and logos. Doesn't matter one damn bit.
It's all the Federal Borg.
But don't believe me - prove it to yourself.
Challenge a judge.
Boeing should tell the NRLB to go F##k off
What are they going to do ask the Gov of SC to send in the national guard to do a lock out ?
Time to stop playing nice
this is simply insane
I say Boeing should proceed as if there were no such ruling and tell the NLRB to go p!$$ up a rope. Let them resort to sending armed Federalies to put chains and locks on the plant. Then take the US Gubmint to court and make them state their weak case in front of a judge.
Boeing will finish the plant in South Carolina. If the government persists, then South Carolina and other right to work states will secede from the Union.
Of course, following established procedure, the President will send warships down to Charleston harbor to “save the Union”.
MSNBC will blame the southern states for seceding to protect Boeing.
We have seen this kind of thing before.