National Labor
Relations Board officials filed a complaint April 20, 2011, against the Boeing
Co., seeking to force the aerospace giant to build new 787 Dreamliners in the
forced-unionism state of Washington rather than in its new
assembly plant in the right-to-work state of South Carolina.
Boeing had
sought to build all the Dreamliners near its existing plant in Puget Sound, but
the International Association of Machinists refused to agree to a no-strike
clause in a new labor contract. IAM has
struck four times since 1989, costing Boeing at least $1.8 billion in revenue. After a fierce political fight, the NLRB finally dropped its suit on
Dec. 9, 2011, but only after Boeing agreed to sign a generous new four-year
contract with the IAM, without that sought-after no-strike clause.
President
Obama’s appointees on the NLRB had essentially used the power of the federal
government to shake down a private company, while also sending a strong signal
to all private companies to think twice before creating new jobs in
right-to-work states. Republicans in
Congress were livid over Obama’s raw abuse of executive power and vowed to shut
down the NLRB….To Read More…..
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