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NLRB sides with unions on SC non-union Boeing plant
Posted: Tue May 10, 2011 6:18 am
by ASUG8
Neither side is budging in an increasingly bitter fight over aerospace giant Boeing’s plans to start production on its 787 Dreamliner fleet at a new $2 billion plant in South Carolina — a move the National Labor Relations Board says was made to punish the company’s union workers.
In its defense, Boeing notes that it isn’t cutting jobs or production in the Puget Sound area of Washington state and has added more than 2,000 positions there since the 2009 decision to open a second production plant elsewhere.
“If this is Boeing’s way of intimidating employees,” said Fred Wszolek, spokesman for Workforce Fairness Institute, an advocacy group that has long been critical of the NLRB, “it sure seems like a strange way of going about it.”
But the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers in Seattle, backed by the NLRB, wants the second facility to be based in Washington as well. They argue that Boeing originally planned to build the plant there, and that the company changed its mind to punish the union for past strikes. They have videotapes they think can prove this allegation.
“The key thing here is motivation,” said NLRB spokeswoman Nancy Cleeland. “In our complaint, we allege they made it very clear to the union members they were doing this to retaliate against them.”
“We’ve been upfront about the fact that one of those reasons [for the South Carolina plant] had to do with the history of strikes we have had in Puget Sound,” Boeing spokesman Tim Neale said. “We believe that legally companies are entitled to take things like labor history into account when deciding where to invest.”
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Re: NLRB sides with unions on SC non-union Boeing plant
Posted: Tue May 10, 2011 3:05 pm
by blueballs
It will be a sad day in our nation if Boeing is not allowed to move its production facility wherever it wants and hire whoever it wants... yet we wonder why American manufacturing is dying and companies move offshore.
Re: NLRB sides with unions on SC non-union Boeing plant
Posted: Tue May 10, 2011 3:51 pm
by ASUG8
No surprise why you have foreign automakers locating predominantly in right to work states:
SC: BMW
GA: Kia
TN: Volkswagen, Nissan
AL: Hyundai, Honda, Mercedes
MS: Nissan, Toyota
KY: Toyota (union state)
Re: NLRB sides with unions on SC non-union Boeing plant
Posted: Tue May 10, 2011 4:04 pm
by citdog
blueballs wrote:It will be a sad day in our nation if Boeing is not allowed to move its production facility wherever it wants and hire whoever it wants... yet we wonder why American manufacturing is dying and companies move offshore.
Re: NLRB sides with unions on SC non-union Boeing plant
Posted: Tue May 10, 2011 4:43 pm
by Ibanez
blueballs wrote:It will be a sad day in our nation if Boeing is not allowed to move its production facility wherever it wants and hire whoever it wants... yet we wonder why American manufacturing is dying and companies move offshore.
fucking unions. Have any of you read some of thier complaints. They don't want to shut down the SC plant, they just want all of the work to be in Washington. Unions, once again, are ruining a company.
Fuckin unions.
Re: NLRB sides with unions on SC non-union Boeing plant
Posted: Tue May 10, 2011 4:46 pm
by Ibanez
I have a freind, an engineer for Boeing inSeattle, that has repeadetly stated how it is nosecret that Boeing is fed up with the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers union.
Re: NLRB sides with unions on SC non-union Boeing plant
Posted: Tue May 10, 2011 5:27 pm
by JohnStOnge
It's fine for workers to ban together and say that none of them will work unless they get something defined that they want. It's also fine for a company to say, "Fine. We'll just get somebody else to work for us."
Companies should be able to disassociate themselves with workers just as workers are able to disassociate themselves with companies if they wish to.
The whole thing with government choosing to jump in on the side of workers is an attack on liberty.