Tough. What she's advocating is nothing short of economic terrorism. However, what Boeing is doing is LEGAL.
If Boeing tries to move out, Sawant said, union workers should simply take over the Everett airplane-building factory.
By all means. Let THEM pay the taxes. And utilities. And permits. And fees. All the while producing nothing. Yeah, that'll improve the economy!
She referred to this as “democratic ownership.”
By "this," does she mean the workers owning the means of production? Karl Marx referred to it as something else.
“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's right about that. The executives only PAY for everything. Like the raw materials used to build things at the factory the workers just took over.
Atlas Shrugged....now non-fiction!
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There are very capable machinery moving companies—all over the country. Boeing might already have them on stand-by.
I remember when a well established compnay in the San Fernando Vally in Los Angeles moved everything to a new place in Las Vegas. They started unbolting machines at 4 PM Friday afternoon, and were up and running the following Monday in Las Vegas. They had a caravan of trucks going east out of California, and has all the places for the new machines ready for installation when they worked thru the weekend, relocating everything.
The company offered all of it’s employees jobs in Las Vegas, and only about 30 said no. Over 200 people moved with the company. No income taxes & the company helped them with the actual move & finding new houses.
In the first year alone, the company saved over $100,000 just on the cost of Power, since rates are better closer to Hoover Dam.
Most accountants said it would take about 3 years to recover the costs of the move, new building, etc, but it took less than 12 months for all those costs to be recovered.