Posted on 06/13/2011 7:52:11 PM PDT by jazusamo
Aircraft manufacturing heavyweight Boeing Co. has been caught in a firestorm of controversy, pulled between unions and politicians, for a decision to open a non-union plant in Charleston, SC, a move that landed the company in hot water with the National Labor Relations Board and now has ensnared President Obama's nominee to head the Commerce Department.
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-SC, announced Monday that he will oppose the nomination of John Bryson, also a member of Boeing's board of directors since 1995, until the president voices support for the aircraft manufacturer.
The senator said he wants Obama to "tell the country we think Boeing's a good, ethical company, and they've done nothing wrong," according to the senator's spokesman, Kevin Bishop. Graham made the comments to a Mauldin Chamber of Commerce luncheon.
Boeing is the subject of a hearing Tuesday in Seattle, Wash., for its move to South Carolina, a "right-to-work" state, after it had already begun work on the 787 Dreamliner commercial airplane in Everett, Wash., site of all wide-body plane work for the company since its inception. The move, announced in 2008, angered the Machinists Union in Everett, who had been on strike for two months, and the union filed suit.
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You’re right, Obama is making this whole election a battle between the unions and the private sector.
In WA state, the federal government is pushing a giant coal terminal, to ship Peabody coal to China. China doesn’t need this coal, but they are buying it because we are selling it at below market prices and China is paying for it with cheap US dollars. China has already told the developers (Goldman Sachs and Warren Buffet) that the Chinese market for this coal is time limited. So, why are they moving ahead with the project? Because Richard Trumka, as the former head of the UMW need something to offset the hit that the coal miners on the East coast are taking from the Obama administration.
I saw a thing in the Wall Street Journal last week about alternative materials use in aircraft, and how Alcoa is trying to regain market lost to composites.
The picture with the article showed Boeing fuselages being assembled by a contractor in Oklahoma!
A right-to-work state, of course.
You don’t hear about that at all.
It's unbelievable to me that a US President could get in bed with a thug like Trumka without the opposition party and the media going absolutely ballistic.
Of course the enemedia got The Won elected and most of the opposition party has no backbone but with the man (boy) sitting in the WH doing business with the biggest union crook in the country you'd think even they would question it.
Boeing has taken a hard stand against the union on this second 787 assembly line in SC.
I really believe Boeing is looking down the road a decade or two to shed the biggest part of union involvement in the company. That’s a guess on my part and there’s no way they’d admit to it now.
Could you identify some of these “union” mines that will be shipping to China, for the benefit of Tumpka?
Even fox is liberal here. They keep calling it a move. It’s not!
IT IS AN EXPANSION. NOTHING IS BEING CLOSED AND MOVED. THEY ARE EXPANDING!
And yes, I was yelling.
You couldn’t be more right. The union thugs are afraid of what may happen down the road, I personally hope their fears eventually come true. :)
The coal that will be shipped to China is Peabody coal from the Powder River Basin. It is actually not considered “coal” officially, as it was de-certified as a coal region by the first President Bush in ‘92 because the coal was of such poor quality that the company was unable to make a profit and abide by all the EPA regulations. It has an extremely low BTU level.
It is not just the Democrats and the President that are jumping in bed with Trumka. The WA State Republicans are falling all over themselves to make money on the construction jobs connected to this terminal.
I am the Republican Precinct Captain for the voting precinct that will be nearest to the terminal, a rural area that voted 79% Republican in the last election and the chairwoman of the Republican party wouldn’t even discuss my concerns about the project or allow me to address the central committee before they voted to approve the project. They repeated spouted something about the greater good that sounded suspiciously like Hitler’s Nazi party slogan, “The public weal transcends the interests of the individual. “
The only good thing for conservatives that has so far come out of this coal terminal issue is that the Progressive greens are furious with Gregoire, Murray and Cantwell. The People for Puget Sound, the Sierra Club aren’t happy either.
Hah! That is one good thing, I’m always happy to see the enviro-nazis in a twit.
It’ll be good to see our Guv go and it’d be nice to see Maria lose enough votes from the greenies to lose next year.
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