NEWLY-ELECTED SOCIALIST HAS SOME RADICAL IDEAS FOR SEATTLE

The Blaze ^ | 21 Nov 2013 | Becket Adams

[mandaladon]

Seattle’s newly elected Socialist councilwoman accused aerospace and defense giant Boeing on Monday of “economic terrorism” and told Boeing machinists they should consider taking “over the factories.” “The workers should take over the factories, and shut down Boeing’s profit-making machine,” Kshama Sawant told a group of activists in the city’s Westlake Park.

Sawant’s comments were made at a rally organized by machinists after they rejected a deal that would reduce pensions for union members in return for guaranteed jobs in Everett, Wash., building 777X Boeing airliners for eight years.

Now Boeing is considering taking those jobs elsewhere.

“That will be nothing short of economic terrorism because it’s going to devastate the state’s economy,” Sawant told the crowd.

If Boeing tries to move out, Sawant said, union workers should simply take over the Everett airplane-building factory.

She referred to this as “democratic ownership.” “The only response we can have if Boeing executives do not agree to keep the plant here is for the machinists to say the machines are here, the workers are here, we will do the job, we don’t need the executives. The executives don’t do the work, the machinists do,” she said.

She said that once workers take over the plant, they should start building things everyone can use.

“We can re-tool the machines to produce mass transit like buses, instead of destructive, you know, war machines,” she told KIRO-TV. By “war machines,” she apparently meant drones, KIRO reported.

“Workers have to realize, they have more power than they think,” Sawant said.

Sawant, who defeated a four-term Democratic incumbent last week, ran a campaign that took aim at capitalism and advocated for a $15 per hour minimum wage.

[Rome2000]

Seems to me that demented communists like this one ought to be investigated and charged with incitement to riot and conspiracy to confiscate private property vital to the national defense.

20 or 30 years in the slammer ought to make these red sons of bitches think twice about operating out in the open.

The day is fast coming when the marxists will be sent slithering back under the rocks they crawled out from.

[chimera]

Yep, move whatever machinery and materials are salvageable to SC and then do an Ellis Wyatt on the rest of the property. Leave the land to the socialists as the people who built Boeing found it.

[A CA Guy]

Workers have the right to look for a better wage elsewhere if they can get it, but there isn't a right to many things from employers IMO. FROM THE MARKET.
Meanwhile Boeing has to look at the city and state and decide if that is an environment they wish to remain in.
Even if they move it would have to be to a place that is acceptable to others so they can still get contracts.