Posted on 11/21/2013 8:02:17 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Here’s the inevitable follow-up on the election of a Socialist to the Seattle City Council — although perhaps sooner than anyone would have thought. Boeing has tried working for years with its unions in the state of Washington, but still cannot reach agreements on labor contracts for its manufacturing facilities. The aerospace giant has looked for other regions in the US to build its planes, which has angered the unions and the Obama administration. It’s also provided an opportunity for Seattle’s newest councilmember to launch her anti-capitalist agenda, and she’s wasted no time in doing so … even before officially taking office:
Seattle City Councilmember-elect Kshama Sawant told Boeing machinists her idea of a radical option, should their jobs be moved out of state
“The workers should take over the factories, and shut down Boeing’s profit-making machine,” Sawant announced to a cheering crowd of union supporters in Seattle’s Westlake Park Monday night. …
On Monday night, she spoke to supporters of Boeing Machinists, six days after they rejected a contract guaranteeing jobs in Everett building the new 777X airliner for eight years, in exchange for new workers giving up their guaranteed company pensions.
Now Boeing is threatening to take those jobs to other states. “That will be nothing short of economic terrorism because it’s going to devastate the state’s economy,” she said.
So what wouldn’t be “economic terrorism”? Seizing the company’s property, of course:
Sawant is calling for machinists to literally take-possession of the Everett airplane-building factory, if Boeing moves out. She calls that “democratic ownership.”
“The only response we can have if Boeing executives do not agree to keep the plant here is for the machinists to say the machines are here, the workers are here, we will do the job, we don’t need the executives. The executives don’t do the work, the machinists do,” she said.
Well, Seattle voters elected her, so they get what they deserve, but perhaps we should point out a couple of inconvenient realities for Sawant. The machinists don’t own the plants, but that’s only just the beginning. Unless the machinists own the designs, they can’t build the planes unless licensed by those who do. And where will they get the raw materials with which to build the planes? Who pays for the energy necessary to operate the machines?
That’s not to say that the machinists can’t build their own planes, of course. They could open up their own business, design their own planes, and build planes themselves, but they’ll need to find an awful lot of capital with which to do it. That means they’d still have to deal with executive management imposed by the VC sources and labor cost controls, which would certainly include getting rid of any notion of defined-benefit pension systems. Then they’d need to compete on price in order to sell the planes, and find people willing to buy them at all when Boeing is still producing proven models in South Carolina.
That is “democratic ownership.” What Sawant demands is outright theft, and we’ve seen the results of it from China to Russia to Venezuela and Zimbabwe.
Besides, Sawant doesn’t want machinists to build planes anyway:
“We can re-tool the machines to produce mass transit like buses, instead of destructive, you know, war machines,” she told KIRO 7.
War machines? Boeing wants to build another series of commercial airliners. When KIRO informed Sawant of that, she replied that she was was “referring to drones when speaking of war machines.”
Hey, Seattle … you elected her. Have fun. The rest of certainly will … at your expense.
A socialist is just another commie with a clean shirt - and this dope isn’t the first one in Seattle government.
Heck, where I live, we have a closed Air Force base with two very long runways, many existing hangars, and ton of room to build whatever factories they need.
Then do what with them?
Well, well. another factory coming to AZ. They can put it up in the northwest of Az and plug the plant into the Hoover dam and suck all the juice that is going to Kalipornikate. They dont want it anyways.
This made me think about McCain and Lindsay Graham. The best way to campaign against Rinos is to run ads showing what they voted for just AFTER their last election. The title should say, BEWARE OF THE DAY AFTER.
Former Sonic fans helped push her votes. Hope they’re going to enjoy her.
Workers of the World UNITE! You have nothing to lose but your chains.
Tell her to schedule a visit to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics so that she can see a successful communist government in action. And I don’t mean for her to visit the current country of Russia.
What ever happened to my lovely, conservative Seattle that I grew up in, of course, the place got californicated!
If it walks like an islamist, talks, bullies and raves like an islamist, it likely is an islamist.
Huntsville, Alabama has the Welcome Mat out!!! Alabama is a Right to Work state and Huntsville already has a large Boeing presence and with NASA engineers looking for a mission....Welcome to the South!!!
Here is part of the law she should help pass to punish those eeeeeevil scumbags of Boeing!
“Directive 10-289
In the name of the general welfare, 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 pentalty of the
nationalization of their establishment and of any and all of their property.
Directive 289
“It is time for Boeing to move out of Washington State.”
Boeing is entrenched logistically in WA state. It’s complicated to move machinery and hire the right laborers in another state. The cost of moving alone would be billions but it’s worth the shot. My uncle was an electrician for Boeing momentarily before moving to Dell.
It’s like these silly Freepers who lecture me to move my production company from Hollywood to Texas when TX does not have the right production infrastructure to make films and TV series.
Notice that everything is in Communist Red!!
10-289 that is.
The USA used to be the “Arsenal of Democracy”. Now we are the “Warehouse of State-ism”. Ain’t Free Trade great?
No, we are now somewhere in the middle of the end. This began well over a century past.
The avalanche has started, it is too late for the pebbles to vote.
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