Documents show Boeing went to South Carolina to trump unions

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Not only does is this anti-union, it also seems to be not the smartest business decision.

Documents prove the Boeing Co. picked South Carolina for a 787 jet assembly line to escape problems with the union despite believing it a high-risk option, Machinists Union officials said Friday.

The internal documents are part of a high-profile labor dispute in which Boeing has been accused by the National Labor Relations Board of retaliating against the union for labor strikes in the Puget Sound region.

Presented to Boeing's board of directors in 2009 -- they show Boeing officials believed opening the South Carolina plant was the highest-risk option they studied with the highest likelihood of failure. Another option was to open the second line in Everett, where the company was already building the plane.

But the documents also say the South Carolina plan, dubbed "Project Gemini," would help in "rebalancing an unbalanced and uncompetitive labor relationship."

http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20110923/BIZ/709239839

[tularetom]

1. I sure want to fly on an aircraft assembled by minimum wage workers

trained in a state with one of the poorest levels of educational achievement in the country.

[demosincebirth]

2. Any time a unionized company makes a move to the southern states it's

to shed union jobs for cheaper labor.

[SoCalDem]

3. Ask any Rust Belt State how this works..

It's been happening for a long time..

Company XYZ finds out that some new regulations are coming along that might mean they cannot keep dumping toxic shit into the water, or their plant is aging & needs updating..they pull up the tent stakes and move to a place that offers them a sweeter deal.... guaranteeing cheap labor, free infrastructure,, tax holidays,etc..,Of course they will move,, rinse & repeat a few years later when the tax deal ends..

Alabama did a deal like this a while back to "create jobs".. tax payers ponied up loads of cash.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x4643059

[moondust]

4. Jennifer Granholm was talking about this on the Daily Show.

Says that states competing against each other like this for employers is no way to run a country, a race to the bottom.

Stewart adds: Don't you think these corporations begin to look at us as desperate suitors? They are now the only girl at an all-male boarding school. It's like 'he gave me a Corvette (so what's your offer?).'

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-september-22-2011/exclusive---jennifer-granholm-extended-interview-pt--1

Scott Walker and the other Republican governors appear to be trying to primp up their states so they can beat the other guy's Corvette.

[CANDO]

5. As did Mack Trucks from Allentown, PA

That was so 1980's. Running to the southern right to work states so they didn't have to pay a family sustaining wage. Apparently its still going on.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

6. Did they think we wouldn't find out?

My god, how stupid can you get?

I wonder just how competent they are at building anything.

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