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Union cancels Boeing vote, claiming gun-toting workers told it to take off
foxnews.com ^ | 4/24/2015 | unknown

Posted on 04/24/2015 12:13:58 PM PDT by rktman

The union looking to organize workers at Boeing's South Carolina plant has put its plans in a holding pattern, claiming workers are so opposed to signing up that they chased labor leaders off their porches at gunpoint.

The North Charleston plant, which opened in the right-to-work state four years ago and builds fuselages for 747s and 787s, employs about 7,500 workers. The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers had been trying to build support for a vote this week on unionizing 3,175 production and maintenance workers, but called off the vote days before it was to happen.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; US: South Carolina
KEYWORDS: 2a; banglist; guncontrol
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Uh, sometimes you appear on someones porch unannounced, yeah, you might find a gun pointed at you or at least one visible. Did the "opponents" of the union go looking for the commie scum bags? And it's not like they've ever used threats and intimidation.
1 posted on 04/24/2015 12:13:58 PM PDT by rktman
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Wasn’t the union caught cheating and forging ID’s in the name of workers?


2 posted on 04/24/2015 12:15:22 PM PDT by GeronL (Clearly Cruz 2016)
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GASP! They would never, ever, ever do anything like that. Just because there were more cards turned in than there were workers doesn’ mean they were cheating.


3 posted on 04/24/2015 12:17:11 PM PDT by rktman (Served in the Navy to protect the rights of those that want to take some of mine away. Odd, eh?)
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I wouldn’t put anything past union thugs.


4 posted on 04/24/2015 12:17:21 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (True followers of Christ emulate Christ. True followers of Mohammed emulate Mohammed.)
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To: rktman

“Uh, sometimes you appear on someones porch unannounced, yeah, you might find a gun pointed at you or at least one visible. Did the “opponents” of the union go looking for the commie scum bags? And it’s not like they’ve ever used threats and intimidation. “

Don’t you just love it when that happens. What I’d like to read is that some union organizer’s nuts have been found hanging from a worker’s porch rail.
The IAM is one of the worst unions in the country for violence. Nice to know they may have found their match in NC.


5 posted on 04/24/2015 12:18:34 PM PDT by vette6387
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Oddly enough in this instance there wasn’t a single cellphone camera or GoPro anywhere to be found. Really?


6 posted on 04/24/2015 12:18:44 PM PDT by rktman (Served in the Navy to protect the rights of those that want to take some of mine away. Odd, eh?)
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To: upchuck

Ping


7 posted on 04/24/2015 12:21:28 PM PDT by StoneWall Brigade (And I will send fire on Magog- Ezkiel 39:6)
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What about South Carolina? LOL! I’ve been on both sides and yeah, they do manage to turn perfectly good workers into repeaters who say “Not my classification.” Whatever happened to “Let’s get the job done the quickest, safest, most efficient, profitable way we can.” Never mind. Managing them is a whole other world.


8 posted on 04/24/2015 12:23:48 PM PDT by rktman (Served in the Navy to protect the rights of those that want to take some of mine away. Odd, eh?)
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"Nice to know they may have found their match in NC.

Just one of many reasons that the left wants private ownership of firearms eliminated.

9 posted on 04/24/2015 12:24:05 PM PDT by Wonder Warthog (Newly fledged NRA Life Member (after many years as an "annual renewal" sort))
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Seems like an appropriate way to deal with Union Organizers. I look forward to the day when this is the normal way of dealing with Democrats as well.


10 posted on 04/24/2015 12:24:57 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp
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The only fertile grounds left for unions are leftist guvmint workers.


11 posted on 04/24/2015 12:26:04 PM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: 1Old Pro

You mean like AFSCuMEe.


12 posted on 04/24/2015 12:28:44 PM PDT by rktman (Served in the Navy to protect the rights of those that want to take some of mine away. Odd, eh?)
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I’m very surprised the union would admit they were scared off, at least in part, by gun toting workers.

That part of the story is going to embolden those who thought about it, but were hesitant to do it. Next time more guns will be used to express just where the worker stands on the issue of unionization.

Good for those who have done so already.


13 posted on 04/24/2015 12:31:25 PM PDT by Balding_Eagle (The Gruber Revelations are proof that God is still smiling on America.)
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If the union said this, it was a lie.


14 posted on 04/24/2015 12:32:15 PM PDT by GeronL (Clearly Cruz 2016)
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You can bet these union slimes thought it would go the same way as in Washington. Show up on someone’s porch with a couple of thugs and get them to sign the card. Only thing is people have guns in NC.


15 posted on 04/24/2015 12:33:51 PM PDT by RightOnTheBorder
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Did they loan some to the non-union folks in South Carolina?


16 posted on 04/24/2015 12:36:29 PM PDT by rktman (Served in the Navy to protect the rights of those that want to take some of mine away. Odd, eh?)
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To: vette6387

You only missed the correct state by one Carolina.


17 posted on 04/24/2015 12:36:41 PM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (Liberals make unrealistic demands on reality and reality doesn't oblige them.)
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Oddly enough in this instance there wasn’t a single cellphone camera or GoPro anywhere to be found. Really?

The unions don't want to record evidence of when their thugs are strongarming workers... and it just happened to go wrong for them.

18 posted on 04/24/2015 12:37:34 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (Darth Obama on 529 plans: I am altering the deal. Pray I don't alter it any further.)
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A taste of their own medicine, and the thugs don’t like it.


19 posted on 04/24/2015 12:43:29 PM PDT by IronJack
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To: GeronL

Maybe.

In this case though, the lie works as well as the truth in helping people use guns in the future.


20 posted on 04/24/2015 12:54:22 PM PDT by Balding_Eagle (The Gruber Revelations are proof that God is still smiling on America.)
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