Posted on 05/05/2017 6:58:43 AM PDT by central_va
Boeing Co (BA.N) handily defeated a union drive by workers at the company's aircraft factory in South Carolina on Wednesday, as almost three-quarters of workers at the plant who voted rejected union representation.
The secret ballot vote, conducted by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) at polling locations throughout the North Charleston plant, was the first for Boeing and a high-profile test for organized labor in the nation's most strongly anti-union state.
The NLRB said 74 percent of the 2,828 workers who cast ballots voted against joining the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM).
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
Yet somehow they still have alot of power. Much more than apparently warranted.
I hate communist ideals as in unions.
This will probably speed up Boeing’s exit from Seattle.
Again? Persistent little rascals eh.
As an aside, on Wednesday’s here, one of the local beer establishments has a happy hour set aside for the IBEW folks who are here working on the tesla gigafactory. Some of them stay until the band(include me in that) stops at 11 or 11:30. Hard core union guys. Would I want them doing wiring on my place on Thursday? Uh, in some cases, hell no. ;-)
Private sector unions have almost no power at all. They are useful tool and whipping boy for the globalists. When they finally disappear what with globalist do?
Yes,in the private sector they're dying.But among "public servants" they're growing by leaps and bounds.Even the people who clean the toilets in government buildings are demanding $25/hr,5 weeks vacation,15 paid holidays and free heath coverage with no co-payments.
So what I hate them but I am talking about manufacturing, the heart of the economy.
>>This will probably speed up Boeing’s exit from Seattle.
Doubt it.. in order to be “allowed” by the Labor Board to open a plant in SC, Boeing had to promise not to reduce employment in union strongholds no matter how many time they strike.
The Boeing plant in South Carolina only exists because the company moved one of its big operations out of Washington to get away from the high union labor costs there. These S.C. workers ain’t stupid.
Because the workers there know that it is their non-union status that won the factory work in S.C. over the Union controlled plant in WA.
oh....and, it improves their wages and working conditions.
You can just do your job without concern of bullying from union thugs.
(former Boeing IAW union member)
Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? Is thine eye evil, because I am good? ?
Matthew 20:1-16King James Version (KJV)
20 For the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which went out early in the morning to hire labourers into his vineyard.
2 And when he had agreed with the labourers for a penny a day, he sent them into his vineyard.
3 And he went out about the third hour, and saw others standing idle in the marketplace,
4 And said unto them; Go ye also into the vineyard, and whatsoever is right I will give you. And they went their way.
5 Again he went out about the sixth and ninth hour, and did likewise.
6 And about the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing idle, and saith unto them, Why stand ye here all the day idle?
7 They say unto him, Because no man hath hired us. He saith unto them, Go ye also into the vineyard; and whatsoever is right, that shall ye receive.
8 So when even was come, the lord of the vineyard saith unto his steward, Call the labourers, and give them their hire, beginning from the last unto the first.
9 And when they came that were hired about the eleventh hour, they received every man a penny.
10 But when the first came, they supposed that they should have received more; and they likewise received every man a penny.
11 And when they had received it, they murmured against the goodman of the house,
12 Saying, These last have wrought but one hour, and thou hast made them equal unto us, which have borne the burden and heat of the day.
13 But he answered one of them, and said, Friend, I do thee no wrong: didst not thou agree with me for a penny?
14 Take that thine is, and go thy way: I will give unto this last, even as unto thee.
15 Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? Is thine eye evil, because I am good?
16 So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen.
IF WORKERS AGREE TO A PAY ... IT IS JUST AND NEEDS NO UNION.
So how many times does this make that they’ve rejected the union? And how many more times is the union going to try?
this story is from february . . ..
Unions are big biz. They have a fund for this and will not stop
Until Trump gets enough of his people on the Labor Board to overturn that.
Pretty much assured - it takes such to lure folks with proper skills and work ethics so they can afford to pay good wages, etc., w/o having to overpay union sluggards.
BS. They sure are the “squeeky wheel” that gets greased, then. Like all liberals, they mouth off alot and whine and yell and the media love them and give them the podium. Thus, they have MUCHO power, just like hippie libs even if they are technically a minority.
Never mind their power when one works in a union shop, even when you’re not union.
So what.
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