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Boeing Courageously Defends Workers from Predatory Unions. Or Something.

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Because if there’s any company that is dedicated to protecting the best interests of its workers, it’s Boeing:

The Machinists union on Monday asked for an election so about 2,400 Boeing production workers in South Carolina can decide whether they want union representation.

The aeronautics giant immediately responded that a union is not in the best interests of the company, the workers or the state.

Also not in the best interests of Boeing workers, apparently, is keeping their jobs here in Washington State. Or something. But we should trust Boeing management to always do what’s best for their workers.

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    It’s swell that Boeing’s management is so very concerned for the welfare of its employees.

    It’s so swell I have a sad for all those laid off Washingtonian Boeing employees with warns as it attempts to move work to below average wage anti union states like Alabama and South Carolina

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    What they should do is quit their jobs and buy Boeing’s stock, and be capitalists instead of workers. They could have bought Boeing stock for $30 in 2009. Now, 6 years later, it’s worth $153. Workers don’t make anything. So why even bother to work? Who wants to work for a company trying to keep their wages down? What happened to the rising tide that lifts all boats?

    http://www.alamy.com/stock-pho.....93652.html

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    @2 Maybe it’s time to revoke the billions of subsidies and tax breaks our state gave Boeing to keep high-paying jobs here.

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    But we should trust Boeing management to always do what’s best for their workers.

    Would you trust the workers to do what’s best for themselves? Because they once had union representation by IAM, and voted to de-unionize.

    Dennis Murray, a manufacturing engineer in the aft-body factory, knows the whole history firsthand. Murray was working at Vought Aircraft Industries when the Machinists narrowly won representation rights at the North Charleston aft-body factory in November 2007. After a fraught couple of years and Boeing’s purchase of that facility, Murray was behind the drive to vote out the IAM in September 2009.

    Then the Machinists claimed Boeing built the North Charleston final assembly line in retaliation for past strikes in the Puget Sound, and the resulting National Labor Relations Board complaint threatened the new South Carolina facility.

    When the NLRB filed an unfair labor practice complaint against Boeing, Murray was one of three local workers who sought to intervene in the case. And almost a year after that case settled, as part of a grand bargain involving a new contract for the IAM in the Puget Sound, Murray is now party to another NLRB complaint, this time charging the IAM with retaliation against him and his local coworkers.

    http://www.postandcourier.com/...../121029901

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    SEPTEMBER 10, 2009
    Former Vought Aircraft Industries employees represented by the International Association of Machinists (IAM) vote to decertify the union with a vote of 199 to 68 at the North Charleston, South Carolina site.

    From the anti-IAM site created by Boeing:

    http://weareboeingsc.com/about/

    Quid pro quo, Clarice:

    OCTOBER 28, 2009
    Boeing announces that it has chosen its North Charleston, S.C. facility as the location for a second final assembly site for the 787 Dreamliner program.

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    Less than six years after IAM was decertified, in Charleston Boeing has completed construction on

    • 787 Dreamliner final assembly and delivery line
    • Boeing South Carolina Delivery Center
    • Engineering Design Center
    • Interiors Responsibility Center South Carolina
    • Boeing Research & Technology Center
    • Propulsion South Carolina

    facilities.

    Boeing SC assembly employees already earn significantly more than IAM-affiliated wages elsewhere in the area.

    Submitting to unionization may improve working conditions on the fringes. It won’t increase wages.

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    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/.....64352.html

    Samantha Lachman
    Moral Monday Returns With Public Opinion, If Not The North Carolina Legislature, On Its Side
    Posted: 01/28/2015 6:51 pm EST Updated: 01/28/2015 6:59 pm EST

    After Republicans took control of the governor’s mansion and both chambers of the state legislature in 2012, the party’s leadership moved swiftly to cut unemployment benefits, eliminate the earned income tax credit, slash corporate tax rates, cut education spending and restrict voting rights. The Moral Monday movement began in response to these actions, with thousands gathering weekly at the state capitol.

    Here’s a little bit about ‘Bob’ the sloppy solipsist’s North Carolina workers paradise.

    Wouldn’t a guy up from hard scrabble be more of a n advocate for the under advantaged?

    Or would he…just say fuck you little people, I have mine and you can eat shit.

    Everything ‘Bob’ the sloppy solipsist writes, like his ideological doppelganger the shrieking harpie HR nightmare puddyfuckwad screams the latter.

    What an asshole.

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    @ 8

    Um, Rujax?

    Different state. There are two with the word ‘Carolina’.

    I know. It’s all so confusing. It’s the Carolina Panthers, and yet that team only has one home state.

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    This is a BIG day for Boeing and South Carolina. Three and a half years after Boeing opened its non-union assembly plant in that state its $10-an-hour right-to-work coolies have delivered an actual airplane to an actual customer. The news story doesn’t say whether it was shipped to Washington and rebuilt by IAM machinists like a lot of the SC plant’s airplanes have been.

    http://www.bizjournals.com/sea…..t-787.html

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    @ 10

    I assume your use of the term ‘coolie’ was a slur directed at South Carolina’s governor.

    coo‧lie [countable] taboo old-fashioned
    a very offensive word for an unskilled worker who is paid very low wages, especially in parts of Asia. Do not use this word.
    Definition from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

    You’re a real class act, RR.

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    So look for a new ‘Rujax Reports’ series.

    The worker’s paradise that is…South Carolina…where the dumb as a drawer of hammers republican governor Nikki Haley proclaimed that flying the confederate flag over the state house is just dandy because, “no CEO’s complained.”

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    @11
    Would seem Coolie is an appropriate phrase in this argument as coolie actually meant indentured servant that was brought over to do work. Later when these indentured servants terms were over and they competed for work against Americans it upset folks. Creating this wonderful phrase “California’s Anti-Coolie Act ” So it can’t be a bad word. Of course any union supporter would know that Chinese workers would be hired by a factory to replace the workers who had gone out on strike. No one bothered to tell the Chinese workers the real situation as they probably would have refused to go work at the factory.

    Indentured servant, slaves, unions and South Carolina. Could be the term Coolie isn’t such a terrible word as it really means bitter hard labor.

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