« BACK  |  PRINT

RS

MEMBER DIARY

Unions Attack Boeing, Threaten Freedom of Speech

By: Brad Jackson (Diary)  |  April 22nd, 2011 at 10:25 AM  | 

RESIZE: AAA

Download Podcast | iTunes | Podcast Feed

On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Brad Jackson and Ben Domenech are joined by Francis Cianfrocca to discuss union complaints to the National Labor Relations Board against Boeing that threaten their ability to do business and potentially, your freedom of speech.

We’re brought to you as always by BigGovernment and Stephen Clouse and Associates. If you’d like to email us, you can do so at coffee[at]newledger.com. We hope you enjoy the show.

Related Links:

In Shot Heard Around Business World, Obama’s Labor Board Issues Complaint Against Boeing
Federal labor board seeks to ground Boeing
IAM Complaint to Labor Board
Right to Work States
New labor plan: Nationwide protests

Follow Brad on Twitter
Follow Ben on Twitter
Follow Francis on Twitter

Tags: , , ,

COMMENTS

POSTING RULES  |  LOGIN TO COMMENT  |  REGISTER TODAY
  • jaykali

    People dont seem to be very outraged. Maybe its bc successful businesses are sued all the time and that’s just the cost of doing business I guess? I am furious that labor + NLRB are trying to intimidate Boeing (and future companies) not to relocate. The lawsuit cannot prevail but the NLRB did halt production of the plant which is amazing to me that they can do that. I mean they are at least going to stall / cause problems to Boeing (at tax payer expense) so as to intimidate employers in the future. That’s what they’re all ab. It makes me crazy. We wonder why jobs go overseas. Unfortunately over-regulation yields more over-regulation and protectionism (see atlas shrugged). The more jobs we lose the more protectionist we get which means we’re all screwed eventually.

  • Death_of_the_Donkey

    companies making business decisions on the location of their operations (for whatever reason they like), under no circumstances should cities/states be offering incentives to these companies to simply move a current US operation to another locale (which is nothing more than a zero sum game for the country). Compete all you want over new projects, but the use of incentives to steal existing operations simply should not happen (in most cases these have little bearing on the location decision anyways, but simply act as an additional taxpayer subsidy of business).

  • drfredc

    Big surprise, the nation’s first Blue President has the NLRB attempting to tell a big union business how to do it’s business when it comes to moving to a right to work state.

    The reality the NLRB and unions don’t want folks to know is there can be unions in a right to work state. However, the union has to provide adequate benefits to justify folks belonging to the union, as opposed to just having $$$$ automatically taken out of paychecks and given to Obamacrats.

    Seems if Blubama’s NLRB silliness becomes the standard business practice guideline, Boeing will soon be opening a plant in Canada, India, China — somewhere outside the reach of Blubamacrats and excessive US corporate taxation and regulations…

  • jonrd364

    Common sense says that if unions are as great as they claim to be, people would volunteer to join one if it was an *option*. Sadly, in non-RTW states, if you desire a job that is part of a bargaining unit, you either join or don’t work that job.

    When the story first broke about this, I got furious. Point of disclosure here– I’m a dues-paying member of the union raising this ruckus against my employer, and this is a use of my dues money that I DO NOT sanction. There are many of us like this on the inside. We love our jobs and recognize who the entity that signs our paychecks is, and it’s NOT the union.

    I guess it’s a bit serendipitous that this is coming up after the Wisconsin situation. The original complaint was filed last year, and it’s only now being addressed by the NLRB. Great timing, considering the general opinion of unions isn’t exactly on the WINNING… DUH! side, to quote a certain deranged tiger-blooded warlock. It’ll be interesting what, if any, kind of PR flack this might kick up.