[jazusamo]

This is ludicrous but with the Dem controlled NLRB this could turn into a mess.

[blueplum]

let’s tell the workers in South Carolina they have to give half their salaries to their counterparts in Washington state as ‘compensation’ - workers of the world unite, right? and let’s see what happens then.

[namsman]

The IAM shouldn’t be too worried. After 4 or 5 years of Boeing management the workers in SC will be begging to join the union.

[FourPeas]

How DARE Boeing think they can decide where to put their production lines!

[mo]

Heck...at LEAST they kept the line in the USA.....fools...

[ncfool]

oh bummer to the rescue

[aruanan]

"But the law is clear: American workers have a right to pursue collective bargaining, and no company – not even Boeing – can threaten or punish them for exercising those rights."

Only because they got a waiver from the law that everyone else had to follow. Sure, let them bargain collectively. Moving a company out of a state, though, isn't a failure, but merely a consequence, of collective bargaining. And if they get too coercive in the other state, well, then, move out of the country and tell them, as a union you may have a "right" to collective bargaining, but we aren't compelled to keep a plant open just for you. You've made it too expensive so you've effed yourself out of a job.

[microgood]

"By opening the line in Charleston (S.C.), Boeing tried to intimidate our members with the idea that the company would take away their work unless they made concessions at the bargaining table," IAM District 751 President Tom Wroblewski said in a statement Wednesday. "But the law is clear: American workers have a right to pursue collective bargaining, and no company – not even Boeing – can threaten or punish them for exercising those rights."

They built the plant in SC so that they could still deliver planes when the Machinist Union goes on strike, which they always do, and always over the dumbest stuff.

[edge10]

I didn’t know it was ‘Illegal’ to put a factory in one of the United States.

Might be in violation of contract but not illegal.

[newzjunkey]

Insanity.

[Paine in the Neck]

Back in the days when radio was the hottest technology on the planet one of the biggest makers was Atwater Kent. Chatter came to his ear that his shops might be unionizing. He warned that if they did he’d shut the company down. They did. He did.

[antiRepublicrat]

Not just Dem controlled, they’re all union sympathizers, and at least one is a former union hack (SEIU IIRC).

[NoLibZone]

Move it to Canada.

[TSgt]

[Dapper 26]

Seattle has been chasing Boeing out of Seattle for years. They were warned many times that the cesspool of liberal policies in the Pacific Northwest - west of the Cascades - would result in Boeing seeking more business friendly locations. Seattle deserves what it doesn’t get.

[upchuck]

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[Svartalfiar]

The complaint says Boeing executives "made coercive statements to its employees that it would remove or had removed work from the (union) because employees had struck"

Actually, I think that by striking they are removing themselves from the work? Are they not?

[stboz]

I suggest Boeing open a plant in Starkville, MS. Mississippi State can supply a steady stream of well educated engineers and the whole state can supply labor. We have Nissan in Canton and Toyota in Blue Springs. Why not Boeing in Starkville?

[magellan]

I don’t think they need to make a Part 2 to Atlas Shrugged. Just turn on the TV and watch the Equalization of Opportunity Law play out on the news.

[Taxman]

I’ll take 10-1 that the NRLB will not go see “Atlas Shrugged.”

OTOH, I sure hope SCOTUS does.