Posted on 04/20/2011 12:01:45 PM PDT by jazusamo
Boeing illegally put its second 787 Dreamliner assembly line in South Carolina in retaliation for strikes in Washington and should be required to build the line in Washington, according to a National Labor Relations Board complaint filed Wednesday.
The board's acting general counsel filed the complaint in response to a charge that the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers union District 751, backed by the national union, filed on March 29, 2010. A board administrative law judge is scheduled to hear the case on June 14.
The complaint says Boeing executives "made coercive statements to its employees that it would remove or had removed work from the (union) because employees had struck" and threatened that future strikes would cost it more work.
"By opening the line in Charleston (S.C.), Boeing tried to intimidate our members with the idea that the company would take away their work unless they made concessions at the bargaining table," IAM District 751 President Tom Wroblewski said in a statement Wednesday. "But the law is clear: American workers have a right to pursue collective bargaining, and no company – not even Boeing – can threaten or punish them for exercising those rights."
Boeing issued a statement Wednesday saying it will "vigorously contest" the complaint.
"This claim is legally frivolous and represents a radical departure from both NLRB and Supreme Court precedent," Boeing Executive Vice President and General Counsel J. Michael Luttig said. "Boeing has every right under both federal law and its collective bargaining agreement to build additional U.S. production capacity outside of the Puget Sound region."
Boeing also criticized the timing of the complaint, noting it came 17 months after it announced it would put the line in South Caroline and as construction is nearly complete, with more than 1,000 new workers hired and assembly of the first airplane set to begin in July.
“After 4 or 5 years of Boeing management the workers in SC will be begging to join the union.”
Never happen. Workers here like the non-union shops. Their brains aren’t addled like the syphilitic liberal morons in the union.
“And recall how the Republican Party before about 1990 was “blue” and the Democrats “red,” then of a sudden in the Media it switched.”
Which is why conservative writers, and posters here on FR and elsewhere, must refuse to adopt the phraseology of the Marxist media. Your example above is a good one.
Another misnomer we need to shoot down is union collective bargaining “rights.” It’s collective bargaining agreements. Or collective bargaining contracts.
We lose the psychological battle for the mind when we use the phrases of the lying, manipulative Marxists.
They would probably not only get tax breaks and bail0outs, but also subsidies, no unions and lower wages. (Think Aerobus, etc).
Aerobus was never based in the US. Do we have an example of a company that has made a complete move out of the US?
The point I was making is that there are countries all over the world that will provide the financial incentives you mention to get an industrial manufacturer like Boeing. That could include such things as subsidies, etc.
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You mean like GM, and Chrysler, and Citi, and Bank of America, and PNC, and AIG, and Freddy Mac, and JP Morgan, and Wells Fargo, and GMAC, and Goldman Sachs, and Suntrust, and Capital One, and BB&T, and M&T Bank, and FutureGen, and Amtrak, and nearly a thousand other giveaways to private companies under Pelosi, Reid, and now Obama?
I suggest Boeing open a plant in Starkville, MS. Mississippi State can supply a steady stream of well educated engineers and the whole state can supply labor. We have Nissan in Canton and Toyota in Blue Springs. Why not Boeing in Starkville?
Come on down, Boeing.
If the unions in Boeing union plants keep this up I wouldn’t be surprised to see them do it. I fully expect to see the union thug leaders keep doing it.
We'd be sad to see them go, but it would vindicate common sense.
Which is why I get apoplectic when I hear leftists say, “Capitalism has failed.” We haven’t had a true capitalist economy during my lifetime.
My response to the leftists who say that capitalism has failed is, “How do you know? You’ve never experienced it!”
Mark
I don’t think they need to make a Part 2 to Atlas Shrugged. Just turn on the TV and watch the Equalization of Opportunity Law play out on the news.
I’ll take 10-1 that the NRLB will not go see “Atlas Shrugged.”
OTOH, I sure hope SCOTUS does.
It is Boeing’s money, their Airplane, and their right to build a plant where ever they choose. Tell the NLRB to Monk Off.
“Union thugs here in Washington can’t stand a little competition, can they?
I’m a non union Boeing employee and my first taste of what you’re talking about came a few years ago. There was an hourly employee (union) that was trying to remove this large display board from our office building. I could see he was struggling to turn a corner with it, and could see that all it would take was for someone to lift the trailing corner and swing the board around for him. So being the helpful soul that I am, I get out of my desk and said, hear let me give you a hand. An easy lift for me and around the corner he was. All of a sudden I hear this from behind me, “Hey what the Hell are you doing?” I turn and see a shop steward in the hall with as angry a face as I have ever seen, saying, “Yea you, what the Hell do you think you are doing? That’s an IAM job, get your hands off it”.
What a horrible way to treat a fellow humane being that was just trying to lend a hand. That is IAM. That is Union. I would hate to see Boeing move out of WA because it is my livelihood, for at least the nest 10 to 12 years, but if I didn’t work for them, I would love to see them stick it to IAM once and for all.
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