I have been following the battles between Boeing Corporation
and its union (International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers)
for quite a few years and especially when the Obama administration tried to
interfere on the side of the unions (of course) trying to force the company to
give in to union demands.
Boeing had the balls to stand up to Obama, the NLRB and the
union and build a non-union factory in Charleston, South Carolina which I have
seen on one of our vacations there.
Recently, Boeing was making plans for building its new 777X
(wide-body, twin-engine, long range) plane and gave the state of Washington
(its main manufacturing site) and its unions to bid on the building program by
agreeing to certain provisions for an 8 year period.
The State of Washington agreed to billions in state concessions
(taxes, etc.) to keep the jobs in the state. The union, on the other hand told
Boeing to get fucked; the concessions asked of the union were not to their
liking…they said Boeing was bluffing.
Now Boeing has dispatched a team to visit states that may
welcome Boeing to build the 777X in their state.
Now what state would not welcome the prospect for thousands
of good paying jobs to their state.
I expect the Washington State based union to appeal to the
NLRB and to the Obama administration to block Boeing from going to any other
state to manufacture the 777X.
This is where having a Republican dominated House of
Representatives comes in handy; GOP members will make sure that Boeing will
have the right to build a factory wherever the fuck they want to and the Northern
unions can just lose their lucrative jobs to workers in the South who I am sure
will welcome those jobs with their usual enthusiastic anti-union fervor.
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