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Since my US home is in Washington, I would certainly hope that that would never happen. Boeing is crucial to the Puget Sound area, and Washington's economy in general. I do not want unions to go away. They serve a valuable function in the areas of workers' rights. But the time is long past when wokers in industries like aircraft manufacturing were subjectto any particularly onerous rules or conditions.
Bottom line: the 787 MUST be a success and Boeing MUST be permitted to fulfill its contract obligations to ordering airlines. The Obama administration sees this as just another zero-sum political shell game where they rig it so that their side wins and the other side loses. The problem with that kind of thinking is that "the other side" in this equation is not just Boeing and a bunch of (presumably) Republican management types. It's the entire domestic airline industry in the United States. Are we really ready to sacrifice yet another critical sector of our economy on the altar of political partisanship?
There is no interest like self interest.
I live right on the SC border. I would rather see them move everything here.
The union has gotten too powerful. I am all for people making a wage commiserate with their jobs but the unions have gotten out of hand.
Wasn't one of their demands during the last contract negotiations was to have a union head on the Boeing Board of Directors? What gall.
Without the unions Boeing could make more profit which helps all the stockholders including IRA and 401k participants.
Because Wash. state has NOT supported Boeing on this issue I say they don't deserve to have them.
If this ruling stands I wouldn't be surprised to see other companies move out of states with such strong union demands.
It happened to New England years ago. It can happen again.
Well by golly, Jack, I don't know but Boeing has spent very near $1 billion dollars on that plant and I just don't know how they pick it up and move it to Washington. Maybe they should have just turned all that money over to the union and told them to have a ball. That is what it amounts to now, isn't it.
How many recent appointments by Obama are involved in that NLRB, anyway? I think the group overstepped their bounds and the House has started the end of their ability to pound employers to aid unions.
I'll answer your question this way :
You will never see me criticizing a court decision by arguing that it is unpopular. I will criticize it of I think it's wrong.
Maybe you could do some research and explain why, in your view, the decision of the NLRB (havethey already decided or is the case still pending? ) is in contradiction of the relevant statute and case law.
How is anything relevant to the NLRB who's members are ALL recess appointees by Obama and ALL are pro-union?
The Repub. kept the senate in session so as to keep those appointees from being made. My quess is the legal issue is what is happening.The NLRB is not pro union or pro business it is an agency to maintain worker rights.
I'll answer your question this way :
You will never see me criticizing a court decision by arguing that it is unpopular. I will criticize it of I think it's wrong.
Maybe you could do some research and explain why, in your view, the decision of the NLRB (havethey already decided or is the case still pending? ) is in contradiction of the relevant statute and case law.
The NLRB was created to protect workers from certain things and them telling an employer where they can and can't establish their plants is not one of the reasons for their creation. They overstepped their bonds in this case and I am sure that even someone as far left as you stand could see that Obama intended things like this to be done by them when he made those last two appointments.
I have always supported the NLRB when they did what they were created to do but this time they just went farther than they were supposed to go.
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Of course he has not yet sicked the EPA on them.
