Posted on 04/24/2011 4:42:45 PM PDT by Rich Mitchell
Boeing corporation moved a portion of its Dreamliner 787 production line from Washington state to a $750 million South Carolina facility after failure to negotiate a contract with unions. Now that the East Coast facility is just three months from initial production, the Obama administration's National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has filed what may be the largest labor lawsuit in 50 years against Boeing to prevent the South Carolina plant from coming online.
The federal suit alleges that Boeing built the plant in South Carolina to retaliate against the machinists union for past strikes. The machinist union has gone on strike against Being five times costing billions of dollars to the airplane builder. While opinions vary, Boeing could simply be making a precautionary move to prevent future strikes - a responsible action. The suit would allow the federal government to mandate that the 787 production be done only in Washington.
Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC) said, "This is nothing more than a political favor for the unions who are supporting President Obama's re-election campaign.." And Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) added, "If successful, the NLRB complaint would allow unions to hold a virtual ‘veto' over business decisions..".
Boeing commented on the lawsuit calling it "frivolous" and promised to open the South Carolina as scheduled. Strangely, the first hearing will be with a judge that works for the NLRB on June 14th after which the NLRB will review that judges decision.
When examining the progressive side of the argument, it becomes clear why Boeing needed to increase the rate of divestiture in Blue states..
(Excerpt) Read more at conservativedailynews.com ...
You mean like GE does, along with no taxes, but the CEO picks up the dinner check. Holder cliam to fame is as Clinton’s pardon pimp.,
If the plane can’t be produced in South CAROLINA, Boeing could always propose to move production to South KOREA. I doubt that the South Koreans would attempt to block that.
Its hard to create jobs when the government position is NO YOU CAN’T.
Let Obama and the Union bastards howl all they want; if Boeing decides to put a plant on the moon and use robots instead of humans...that is their business.
Obama can go fu&%k himself.
Just what I was thinking. Another good candidate for the budget axe while we’re at it.
Atlas is getting ready to shrug!..........
Same reason they made GM close the almost-new Saturn plant in Spring Hill, TN. Standard practice in Chicago politics -- punish your enemies, reward your friends.
Bull Pucky!
Good post Bill welcome to FR.
I am definitely the author of that article. I looked through many FR posts and saw that many did use excerpts. I took the “When in Rome..” and all approach.
I was unaware that it was so offensive to do such a thing.
“Strangely, the first hearing will be with a judge that works for the NLRB”
Conflict of interests. Recuse yourself, Judge.
I have a friend who works for Boeing..and said "the CEO wanted to move it to a cheap right to work state". What he didn't say was the union wanted a seat on the board and an agreement that ALL future Boeing airplanes would be made in SEA. No CEO in his right mind would agree to that. This is classic tail wagging the dog...the unions think they run the company these days. Wouldn't blame them if they did move the whole store to Korea...or China.
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