Posted on 07/28/2011 6:40:15 AM PDT by markomalley
Though workers in South Carolina’s new Boeing Company plant recently booted out union bosses trying to organize them, local representatives from the International Association of Machinists (IAM) still linger around Charleston.
“Well, pretty much, they’ve been around for a few months now,” said Anthony Riedel of the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation. Sources tell TheDC that union bosses have even showed up at Boeing’s new workers’ homes in attempts to pitch their cases for unionization.
Congressman Trey Gowdy, South Carolina Republican, told The Daily Caller he thinks it’s “bitterly ironic” for Charleston IAM reps to try to organize the same workers their Seattle counterparts hope will be out of a job, if the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) rules against Boeing in a union-led pending case.
“The same general entity, that being Big Labor, which is threatening the economic death penalty on the Boeing plant, which would mothball it and discharge the 1,000 employees, now wants to rush to their defense,” Gowdy said in phone interview.
“My suspicion,” Gowdy continued, “is the workers in Charleston are smart enough to see through that, and that they don’t want their union dues going to subsidize the reelection of the president who’s appointed the most activist NLRB board since the Republic was formed — and now the same board that wants to close the facility where they work.”
Gowdy said he hopes workers will “connect all those dots” and reject the formation of a new union at the Boeing plant in South Carolina. But union bosses’ preferred method of presenting their case to workers may be complicating that understanding.
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I can picture the new Boeing factory in Brazil in my mind.
Or Shanghai or wherever Imhelt (sp) chooses.
With or without the customary baseball bats?
South Carolina needs Unions like they need a tapeworm..
Tapeworm, the ideal pet. It goes where you go and eats what you eat. Unions, however...
And no mention from the NLRB or the Union of GE moving their Xray plant overseas.
Interesting. Same concept. Going from a union state to a non union state. Or china for that matter which to me is a non union state.
it should be illegal for union reps to solicit this way.
if it were reversed the boss would be in deep trouble.
I hope boeing sues the NLRB and the union if they lose.
That's not very smart. A person could get shot acting in such a threatening manner in South Carolina.
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