NLRB Continues to do the Unions Bidding on Behalf of the Obama Regime, Slaps Boeing With Complaint For Building Planes in Non-Union Facility
This is what hundreds of millions of dollars in attack ads and campaign contributions buys you.
NLRB Acting General Counsel Lafe Solomon today issued a complaint against the Boeing Company alleging that it violated federal labor law by deciding to transfer a second production line to a non-union facility in South Carolina for discriminatory reasons.
Boeing announced in 2007 that it planned to assemble seven 787 Dreamliner airplanes per month in the Puget Sound area of Washington state, where its employees have long been represented by the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers. The company later said that it would create a second production line to assemble an additional three planes a month to address a growing backlog of orders. In October 2009, Boeing announced that it would locate that second line at the non-union facility.
In repeated statements to employees and the media, company executives cited the unionized employees’ past strike activity and the possibility of strikes occurring sometime in the future as the overriding factors in deciding to locate the second line in the non-union facility.
The NLRB launched an investigation of the transfer of second line work in response to charges filed by the Machinists union and found reasonable cause to believe that Boeing had violated two sections of the National Labor Relations Act because its statements were coercive to employees and its actions were motivated by a desire to retaliate for past strikes and chill future strike activity.
Posted by ZIP on Wednesday, April 20, 2011, at 8:39 pm | 
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Having lived where Boeing designed and built some of the best aircraft in the world . . . I can tell you that unions are a real pain in the neck for Boeing. I had a very good friend who as a machinist at Boeing. He had to join the union. Hated the union. Whenever they would go on strike, they would have to work enormous overtime to get back somewhat to where they needed to be. Seems like airlines don’t like it when delivery on their multi-million dollar planes are delayed . . . funny that way! Sometimes, he would be doing overtime for months on end. He would get so tired.
I don’t blame Boeing for wanting to get a long way away from unions.
I live very close to the assembly plant in Everett. I could care less if every one of these union dirtbags lost their job. I need a new gardener or three.
Boeing should move their entire operation to South Carolina.
The only way to deal with Unions, is to bust them. I worked for a Union and it was the unproductive, low mentality crowd I had ever seen. It seems like they are always pitted against the company and the Unions plays their workers like fiddles.
These Union types a bottom feeders and many of them could not make it in a real non Union company if they had to. They have a great lack of work ethic.
No American should be held in slavery by unions. Every American should be free to live and work without union harassment.
Wonderful news!
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Another state voting to release their union slaves.
so let me get this straight, they lay thier proverbial cards on the table and tell it like it is, they dont want to have all thier eggs in one basket when the people holding that basket have repeatedly fucked them in the past.
they want to have at least what amounts to a very small safety margin in making contractual obligations,
and they are gonna get reamed for stating the obvious?????!!!!
the gov. will be responsible with its leftist crap for turning this into a nation of liars who will allways need to hide the truth to survive.
I was forced into a union once. I still remember a few years later, reading the letter from the president explaining why they weren’t going to file charges against the union secretary, found drug addicted in another Country with what was left of all the embezzled union money.
I don’t think the union is as active in that town these days.
Boeing wanted to move production out because it was “motivated by a desire to retaliate for past strikes and chill future strike activity.”
Retaliate? Come on. They’re doing what it takes to keep the company afloat. The union employees will still get their perks and pensions.
Chill future strike activity? But there won’t be unions to strike where they’re going! Ha ha! And as for the current union employees: they’ll just call in sick and get fake doctors’ notes instead of striking.
“The Original says:
April 20, 2011 at 9:05 pm
Having lived where Boeing designed and built some of the best aircraft in the world . . . I can tell you that unions are a real pain in the neck for Boeing. I had a very good friend who as a machinist at Boeing. He had to join the union. Hated the union. Hated the middle class pay, desperately wanted to work for minimum wage, but was forbidden to do so. He kept wishing and hoping that they could remove all the safety equipment, and work 14 hours a day without a break but the damn union insisted on sending them home after 40 hours of work.
When he got sick, he begged the company to fire him and replace him with a healthy worker, but the effing union forced the company to provide him health benefits. When he finally got too old to work, again he was hoping to be tossed out onto the street with nothing but again, the goddamned union forced the company to provide him a retirement.
Now the poor sap is sitting around healthy and secure in a house he owns, free of debt, with nothing to do with his life but travel and play golf.
Fucking unions.”
FIFY
fuck em all cocksucking bastards
“I can tell you that unions are a real pain in the neck for Boeing.”
I’m sure they are. What’s more they should be. Unions are a check ont he power of big companies, and bless them for it. Are some unions corrupt? Absolutely. So are a lot of companies. But it’s a hell of a lot worse having one unopposed corrupt force than having two opposed corrupt forces.
“Retaliate? Come on. They’re doing what it takes to keep the company afloat. ”
During a *bad* quarter in 2010 the company made 3/4 of a billion dollars *profit*. Trying to keep the company afloat, really? You might want to save that kind of thing until the company is actually close to not making a huge profit every three months.
Just sayin…