Boeing Busts Unions, Claims Government Conspiracy Against Businesses (Also Called Upholding the Law)

from Campaign for America's Future, via AlterNet:




Boeing Busts Unions, Claims Government "Conspiracy" Against Businesses (Also Called Upholding the Law)


The National Labor Relations Board is attempting to enforce our country's laws and the corporate conservatives are going nuts - literally. They are challenging the concept of law itself, while making wild claims of conspiracies by government against business itself. Yikes!

The National Labor Relations Board has filed a complaint against Boeing for retaliating against employees for legitimate union activities. Boeing opened a 787 assembly line in "right-to-work" South Carolina that they had previously stated would go to Washington State, after repeatedly having to grant concessions to union workers in Washington State. Opening an assembly line is not illegal, of course, but doing so in retaliation for union activities or for the purpose of threatening a union is illegal.

The key to the NLRB action is that Boeing executives said repeatedly they were opening the South Carolina plant because of union activities. They boasted they were breaking the law, and finally someone has dared to enforce the law.

The International Associaltion of Machinists and Aerospace Workers complaint states that a Boeing executive stated Boeing was "diversifying Boeing's labor pool" to South Carolina due to "strikes happening every three to four years." The complaint cites several other instances of Boeing officials stating the reason for opening the South Carolina assembly line was because of union activities, as well as threatening the union with losing work in Washington state because of union activities. ...........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/593505/boeing_busts_unions%2C_claims_government_%22conspiracy%22_against_businesses_%28also_called_upholding_the_law%29/

Haven't the authorities all caught onto that yet?

;-)