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Posted on 09/10/2009 3:45:30 PM PDT by jazusamo
Workers at Boeing's 787 fuselage assembly plant in Charleston, S.C. have decisively voted to get rid of the Machinists union as their bargaining representative with the company. The vote was 199 for decertification of the International Association of Machinists (IAM) union against 68 for retaining it.
The vote means that Boeing Charleston becomes a non-union plant. It will compete with Boeing Everett, an IAM stronghold, to be the site of a second 787 Dreamliner assembly line. A decision on that site selection is expected by year end.
Boeing spokesman Tim Healy said the company is pleased with the outcome. "Boeing Charleston can now move forward to focus on excellence and meeting commitments on the 787 program," Healy said in a statement.
(Excerpt) Read more at seattletimes.nwsource.com ...
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To Hell with the IAM. They need to be decertified here in Washington too, but they never will...
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Bravo! We don’t need no stinkin’ union.
Way to go, Boeing Charleston! I bet the IAM out in Washington state is freaking out.
I follow Boeing and commercial aviation closely, and I know the IAM workers have had several strieks in Everett/Renton.
Boeing has talked about moving commercial aircraft production overseas (notably China) and I would much rather have them remain in the US.
But, could they possiblky move it all to Charleston and be in the south, where they don’t have to worry about unions?
And they need to get their HQ out of Chicago; there’s really no point to it being there.
Wow, that’s a solid punch to the union gut.
I doubt they’ll ever decertify but they better think about concessions or Boeing may eventually leave.
Gee, wonder where Boeing is gonna build its new assembly line?
WOW - that is big. Good going Boeing (SC, that is)
One of the interesting little factoids I found while digging around in SEIU bylaws.
Decertification can be stopped by 7 SEIU members without debate. That’s not 7%, its 7 INDIVIDUALS. If there are 14 members in an SEIU local, 7 dissenting votes can stop it, if there are 10,000 members in a local 7 members can stop it.
Arizona is also a right to work state - come to the south and build, build, build! Kick out the unions! Fight back America while you still can...
Since the first of the year Boeing has put it to the IAM they want a no strike clause here in WA. The union has called it a bluff that they might set up a second assembly line out of state. I believe this just might make believers out of the union.
China?
LOL! Ya think?
Card check? Card check? We don’t need no stinking card check!!
Woo-hoo!
Good move for the SC workers.
SC has been doing real good lately. SC -2 Rats -0
It’s not over yet. When Boeing Long Beach engineers voted out the union the union fought them in court for several months before the matter was finally resolved. And the union was fighting them using the money taken from the engineers.
Those machinists can be pretty mean. Yea for Charleston. I remember when they struck at General Dynamics way back on the F-16 and they are downright nasty . . . nails in the entryway to the plant . . etc etc
If the people with GM and Chrysler weren’t so stupid they would have done the same thing.
I’m sure Obama will put in his 2 cents before it’s over too. He’ll put in his two cents, and our millions.
Just after the vote 199 people leaving the meeting found the tires slashed on their cars and their windshields busted out.
68 people didn’t.
Of course, that is just a coincidence.
China, maybe?
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HA! If I were CEO of a company that had union and non union factories, I would provide better pay and bennies to the non union plant, just to pi$$ them off.
I’d like to think many of the moonbats would start to smarten up but I’m afraid you’re right. The day Boeing picks up and completely leaves WA they’ll be a lot more poor moonbats.
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This is the plane the unions fear. Boeing had two 747's modified to accomodate 787 fuselage sections/major assemblies (just like Airbus, who modified A340's to ferry their parts from all over Europe).
It used to be that WA had the lock on all major assemblies on all widebody aircraft, since they couldn't be transported by rail (too big). Now, with their new transport aircraft, any facility with a runway can bid for major Boeing work.
Good info and pic, thanks for posting.
Gee, it sure is a shorter trip from Italy to SC than Italy to WA. Hmm.... As long as this kills the Boeing-to-China rumors, I’ll be happy.
No, those sickening moonbats will pick up and move to South Carolina. They are the same moonbats that picked up and left California when CA lost the military contractors. They follow fortune and leave nothing but waste in their wake.
If I lived in South Carolia I'd stand a the border with a shotgun and anyone trying to come into the state with WA plates should be asked a few good questions and if they have the wrong answers, turn them back.
The people at the Mercury Marine plant in Wisconsin should have done the same thing.
Typical...when the newspapers in Detroit had a strike about 9 years ago, they burned down garages and broke arms...and that was to those that did not belong to the union, just delivered papers to coin boxes..I think they were independant contractors...talked with one guy, his family was scared shi!less....typical goon union thugs...
“,,,7 SEIU members...”
By-laws be damned. I don’t believe that would hold up under a law suit. Of course, if somebody was to give SEIU some of its own medicine and beat up the seven dissenters, court wouldn’t be necessary.
Best news tonight! Joe Wilson of SC called Obama a Liar and his State’s workers kick out the Union Thugs!
Way to go, SC!!! Spread a little of that good mojo up here to NC, Please! We need it badly.
Smart economic move for the workers.
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