Boeing 787 Dreamliner
By Semperpapa
This situation has been quite interesting to follow because it clearly demonstrates once again that the current government is quickly positioning itself to institute a dictatorship in our Republic.
Obama and his cronies are laying down the fertile ground for a federal control of business in America.
The Boeing Company has just opened a new factory in South Carolina for the assembly of the new 787 Dreamliner commercial jet. The Seattle-based Corporation selected South Carolina, among many reasons, because that state is a right-to-work state, where the company does not have to unionize its workers.
The facility, for which Boeing invested $1B for its realization, is employing about 1,200 workers.
In an effort to exercise its despotic power upon Boeing, Obama is allowing the NLRB (National Labor Relations Board) to file a lawsuit against Boeing in the attempt to force the aerospace giant to shut down the facility and move the 787 assembly line back to Washington State, where the company is forced to hire union workers.
What may be the consequences of this unprecedented intrusion of the federal government into a company business practices? According to Michael Lutting, VP and counsel for the Boeing Co. such legal precedent would impact business decision for any company seeking to expand their operation in other states of the Union with the potential loss of thousands of jobs. Moreover, it would also push even more companies to seek expansion overseas rather than being forced to submit to crippling union contracts.
The NLRB is suing Boeing under the accusation that the company is using coercive tactics against its union workforce, while the CEO of Boeing is sustaining that the company has to address their survivability in an ever increasing competitive international market.
Boeing management is rightfully concerned about the consistency of union actions in the form of strikes. As Rich Lowry points out in National Review Online, the aerospace giant was subjected to labor disputes in 1977, 1989, 1995, 2005, and 2008 with strikes that were designed to adversely impact the operational ability of the company. Inflicting pain upon the organization was the goal.
In its headquarters in Seattle, Boeing has created thousands of good jobs. This legal action on the part of the federal government is nothing less than the attempt to install a Soviet Union style control upon the ability of a company to conduct its business in the most profitable and self sustaining manner possible. The intentions of expanding their operation in other locations, therefore creating even more good paying jobs in those locations, should be heralded by a government that is tragically struggling with a depressed economy.
And in this dispute, what about the 1,200 jobs in South Carolina that would vanish?
The truth of the matter is that the Obama administration is not interested in the job loss that would result from a legal victory for the NLRB. As a matter of fact, it would be a political victory to punish a state that elected Nikki Haley, a TEA Party Republican, as their governor. It would be a clear intimidation move for all who may consider another Conservative victory in 2012, a message that the federal government can reach into the free exercise of business and control the labor market. Punish conservative South Carolina in favor of liberal Washington State.
Not a surprise, but still greatly disturbing, is the hold that unions have achieved over our government, a true communist bonanza. The actions of the NLRB are probably inspired and counseled by none other than one of the biggest thugs in the corrupted world of the American unions, Richard Trumka, president of the AFL-CIO, who boasts that he is in direct contact with the White House almost on a daily basis. I am sure every freedom loving American is gratified by the influence that this communist is exercising on the President.
I know the liberal trolls will be screaming about the big evil corporations and their greed for profits, but it is a fact that these evil corporations provide millions of good jobs for Americans.
In the usual hypocritical way, I hear people who work for large corporations complain about their employer, crying about being just a number, about how the company does not care for the employee, all the while enjoying a paycheck and a multitude of benefits. I ask: if you are so unhappy, why work there?
In our country we still have the freedom to change job, to seek happiness somewhere else. The truth is that in many cases the pay and benefits received from the evil corporation is such that changing job is “not practical.” How convenient.
What the federal government is attempting to achieve through the NLRB is to create an atmosphere of control over the business activity in America and to strengthen the power of the unions, all for the purpose of political advantage. Unions give legitimate and illegitimate support to the designs of the progressive crowd roaming the insulated and elitist corridors of every building in Washington, D.C., as they act like the labor army of an ever increasing despotic federal government.
It will be interesting to see if the NLRB will be successful in its legal action. If so, the repercussions will be vast and painful for the Nation’s economic development. But I am convinced that that fits perfectly in the Obama grand scheme of things.
Just my thoughts!
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