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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At our Puget Sound Apartment Owners’ Association meeting tonight we had a guest speaker from our regional Economic Development Council (a quasi-government entity). He seemed very sure of himself when he said the Dreamliner would be built here in Seattle.
What’s to stop Boeing from moving out of the country? I am sure Japan would love to have an assembly line.
Northrop is proudly a NONUNION aircraft division company. Yes even in Kalifornia!
It would serve the state right. WA is an embarrassment to the Republic.
They will not be screwed out of the new facility. This is nothing more than a shakedown and Boeing knows it. The plant is already established and scheduled to begin production in July of this year. All that's left to be settled is how much blood money has to be paid to the IAM, as decided by Obama's goons on the NLRB.
BTW, this new plant is a model of modern green technology and energy efficiency - technologies heavily subsidized by federal money. Look at this as Boeing helping it's buddy Zero funnel more tax payer dollars to his union pals by passing along some of that federal largesse.
I remember the way the union always did things for the good of the union not necessarily the good of the company.
How bad are things in Seattle if you have to move to Chicago for a more business-friendly climate?
Can you believe these labor cartels are complaining about Boeing’s “retaliation,” due to THEIR OWN price fixing & restraint-of-trade practices?
These unions are a bunch of Marxist bullies.
Union “organizers” should be doing the Perp Walk — and Boeing deserves a settlement for DAMAGES caused by protectionist labor cartel’s COLLUSIVE BEHAVIOR, INFLUENCE PEDDLING, ANTI-COMPETITIVE CONDUCT, RACKETEERING.
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