Posted on 04/26/2011 6:14:10 PM PDT by Kaslin
Big Labor: Can a union that workers voted out and a government agency with an anti-business agenda tell America's largest exporter in which state it can create jobs? Is this revenge for Wisconsin?
Hell hath no fury like unions whose power is being challenged, and unions are not happy after Gov. Scott Walker's victory for democracy over angry union mobs in Wisconsin and similar moves by governors in other states such as John Kasich's Ohio. They want their pound of capitalist flesh.
So they, in the form of the International Association of Machinists, have called upon their wholly owned subsidiary, the National Labor Relations Board — whose job it is to bully business on labor's behalf — to file a complaint against Boeing for expanding into the right-to-work state of South Carolina.
"We absolutely will not accept the bullying. This is a direct assault on right-to-work states," South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley told National Review Online. "I want to ask (President Obama) why he is allowing unelected bureaucrats to come in and do the unions' dirty work on the backs of our businesses."
The answer is simple: This is not about jobs or even workers' rights. It's about creating more union jobs to pay dues, money that can be spent electing Democrats.
The NLRB complaint alleges that Boeing wants to build its new 787 Dreamliner in North Charleston, S.C., instead of at its Puget Sound facility in Washington state in retaliation against the International Association of Machinists for strikes such as a two-month-long work stoppage in 2008 that cost the company $1.8 billion.
The IAM filed its complaint in March 2010. But while charging retaliation, it could not demonstrate any harm. The facility in South Carolina is new and takes no pre-existing jobs away from Puget Sound.
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Seattle/Everett is still the center of gravity for commercial aircraft production. Their cadre of core employees, sort of the "NCO's" of the engineering and production communities, are all multi-generational townies and will not leave.
Not that I'm a big fan of union fascists, but Boeing is getting what it deserves from its formerly BFF, Pres_ent Zero. It is a very, very liberal company (the commercial aviation side that is, defense is a different culture) so I see this as the commies eating their own.
All nice places, but I think Obama and his stacked NLRB are trying to prove that nowhere inside the US will be far enough away to move. If Boeing can’t run a factory in SC, and has to bolt from WA, they aren’t going to stop at the border, that’s for sure.
They were idiots to move to Chicago. They should have gone to Dallas or Atlanta.
You do know that was not the first industry or city that's been said of, right?
Boeing doesn’t HAVE to build planes in the US - they can leave the country as so many other businesses have done in the past to avoid the commie leftist morons that have infested our government.
I heard Governor Haley talking to Laura Ingraham about this on yesterday’s show, and I couldn’t figure out what standing the NLRB was trying to use as cover to halt Boeing work in SC. As close as I could tell, they seemed to think it was improper for Boeing to be aware of the labor laws of various states and locate new operations in the states with the laws most favorable to their interests. What a ludicrous position. If that’s all they have to stand on, I’d love to see that one sorted out in open court.
I saw this on FNC Cavuto the past two days, Jim DeMint was on one of them as a guest talking about it.
Obama is sueing a company for opening a new plant in a Right-to-Work state SC. This is one of those Marxist like actions that I wish Republicans like Boehner would scream murder about. This is perfect to (message) tie to Obama and the high unemployment. At least I can dream they would.
Another great post by Kaslin.
Different scenario - Boeing Commercial is presently thriving and actually growing in Seattle. While conservatives may hate to admit it, that success is as much because of the union as it is despite the unions. Many of them are hard working, talented and skilled people.
No, they are quite comfortable there and have no reason to leave. It suits their culture perfectly.
Actually, they're being harassed by the National Labor Relations Board, so it wouldn't help. Probably should do it anyway.
Where would the Skunk Works projects continue?
Outlawing business moves to states with rational laws?? Dangit! Atlas Shrugged was meant as fiction, NOT a damn manual!
Does this one large company think they can wag the industry’s dog? If Boeing thinks being screwed out of it’s SC facility is just grand (and I don’t rule that line of thought out), then the entire company will be gone inside of a few decades. There is no such thing as “Too big to fail.”
Skunk Works is part of Lockheed Martin.
That was a Northrop thing in SoCal, so it's probably against all sorts of "workplace safety" regs now anyway.
BTW, love your tag. And...I am sure aircraft workers are a bit different than auto workers...
If they are so comfortable why would they not simply expand in WA instead of looking to expand in SC?
Thanks sickoflibs.
It’s only a matter of time before they close up shop and move. Hopefully they will stay in the US, but it would not surprise me if they didn’t.
Lots of skilled aviation workers in Brazil, too.
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