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.
Cool! After 8 years on Free Republic I finally get flamed. You can take a look at all of my other posts and try to see how my opinion of Boeing management fits in with everything else. You are going to be confused.
As an afterthought, aren’t the people at Boeing in South Carolina already familiar with Boeing’s management style? Are they unhappy? How would the management of an existing Boeing plant be affected by adding another line? How would joining a union help? All a union does is empower group force. Can’t an unhappy non-union employee simply quit their job?
Perhaps I am not understanding your meaning.
You will recall that one of the many anti-FReedom laws and regulations passed by the “legislature” in AS was one that prevented a company FRom moving plant and equipment out of a failing state to a more pro-business state.
And, AS was PUBLISHED in 1957!
PS I quite agree. I really hope Boeing tells the NRLB to pound sand, and if the Feds get really pissy, Boeing moves all production to South Carolina.
Part 1, Chapter 10. It was one of Wesley Mouch’s directives.
Thanks, Publius. I knew I could count on you to provide a specific reference for this thread.
It is amazing just how prescient Ms. Rand was, isn’t it?
Jesse Jackson, Jr. stepped into her spider web, also. “Jesse Jackson, Jr. blames the iPad for ‘eliminating thousands of American jobs’” He called for Apple to be forced into stopping the production and sale of them! Snicker, snicker!
I wonder who’ll be the next LIEberal/Socialist/Marxist/Fascist Obongo Bozo follower to step into her web?
Sadly, it will probably be more profitable to move the whole line off shore rather than pursue a legal resolution.
Jeese Jackson, Jr. was making the argument made by Dr. Potter in Part 1, Chapter 7.
I wonder if he knows how utterly ignorant his argument is? Or, how Fascist?
He is an evil man, and so is his father.
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